NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — We have new information about the criminal history of the Antioch High School shooter.
Davidson County Juvenile Court released the records for Solomon Henderson late Friday.
The records show Solomon Henderson was arrested at least twice in Nashville. Both incidents were before he opened fire inside his school back in January, killing one student and himself.
The records also show Henderson was in court the morning of the shooting. It appears he went to court early on the morning of January 22 for a probation violation, then was dropped off at school where he shot and killed 16-year-old Dayana Escalante.
That probation violation stemmed from an arrest for reckless endangerment in October 2024 for threatening another student with a box cutter. Court records show Henderson threatened a female student after she said hi to him on the way to the cafeteria. He then threatened to "cut anyone that walks up to him."
In addition to the arrest, he was suspended from school for 2 days.
The incident would have triggered the school to do a threat assessment.
We don't know what the assessment found, but we know that after the two days, he was allowed to return to school.
The juvenile court records also show Henderson was arrested in November 2023 for aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor. Police say he was downloading child pornography from the internet.
In that case, he was released to his parents and ordered not to have access to a cellphone or the internet except for school work.
We know Henderson was arrested in Clarksville in 2020. That's when his mom reported him as a runaway. The incident report says he punched his mother in the face... and tried to hit her with a chair before running away.
Police charged him with assault in that case and referred him to the Tennessee Department of Children's Services. We don't know how DCS handled the case because it's confidential.
NewsChannel 5 also received some records from Henderson's time in middle school.
They show that in 2022, Henderson said something troubling to a teacher at JFK Middle School here in Nashville, and that the teacher found something concerning on his school laptop.
It appears the school had concerns about his physical or mental well-being at the time.
We know he was referred for counseling both in and out of school. But because of federal privacy laws, it's unclear what happened after.
State lawmakers passed a law this session that allowed Henderson's juvenile records to be released. Lawmakers say the public has a right to know about a school shooter's past.
Do you have more information about this story? You can email ben.hall@newschannel5.com.
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