Student at Antioch High School in Tennessee He says he saw people “being shot on the ground” as he and his colleagues raced to the building's exits during the deadly attack there yesterday.
Accounts that describe the chaotic scenes that occurred inside nashville school Wednesday appears as investigators search for a motive behind the attack. Police say the 17-year-old student shooter — who posted “deeply disturbing” writings online — killed Jocelyn Correa Escalante, 16, and wounded another student before shooting himself.
One student said: “We were in the cafeteria eating lunch like any other day, and we kept hearing gunfire in front of the cafeteria and then people looked around screaming. We ran after the garbage cans.” He told WSMV, Narrate the moment the shots were fired.
“I saw people getting shot on the ground, bleeding,” he added, noting how he and his friends crouched down and ran to a side door to escape the cafeteria.
Jordan Hebert leaves flowers at a memorial for the victims of the Antioch High School shooting on Thursday, January 23, 2025, in Nashville, Tennessee. (AP/George Walker IV)
In a Separate interview with WZTV, The shooter “was a monster who just killed people,” the student said.
“Everyone just split up — a lot of students were outside, inside. He wasn't a kid you'd think would do something like that, he stayed on task, did his job, was calm,” another student told WMSV. “So I was really wondering what was going through his head. I felt like just a full conversation could have ended it all, but it didn't.”
One of the students of Antioch He told WKRN News 2 She and the alleged gunman “were in ROTC together this year as well, and he was always at the top of the class.”
Another said: “I knew him personally. He was in my class, and I didn't think he was like that. I just thought he was a nice, quiet person, but he wasn't.”
On Wednesday, the Metro Nashville Police Department responded to a shooting at Antioch High School. (X/ @MNPDNashville)
Jocelyn Correa Escalante's father, Featured by WTVF German Correa also told the station: “I used to tell her every day how much I love her.”
“This is not fair,” he added.
Escalante's aunt, Maria Correa, also told WTVF that she “was a very quiet, well-behaved girl.”
Dasia Pletiz prays as she waits for her daughter at the Reunification Site after the shooting at Antioch High School on Wednesday. (AP/George Walker IV)
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“She had good grades At school. “She was a girl who loved her parents and all her family,” Correa added.
