The devastated father of the 16-year-old Nashville schoolgirl gunned down by a self-loathing incel classmate Wednesday has spoken of his ache at understanding he won’t ever see her once more.
“Every day I told her how much I loved her,” Josselin Corea Escalante’s grieving father, German Corea, informed WTVF in Spanish.
Corea stated he by no means thought when he despatched his daughter off to high school Wednesday it might be the final time he would see the soccer-loving daughter he known as “daddy’s little girl.”
“It’s not fair,” he stated, sniffing away tears.
Josselin was shot a number of instances by ROTC cadet Solomon Henderson, 17, who then shot himself lifeless after additionally wounding one other lady within the cafeteria at Antioch Excessive Faculty.
Police are investigating whether or not she was focused by Henderson, who praised Adolf Hitler and wrote about being an incel — somebody unable to draw individuals — as a result of he was a “worthless subhuman, a living breathing disgrace.”
Josselin’s aunt described her as a daddy’s lady and loving older sister, who labored arduous at school and performed soccer.
“She was a very calm girl and well-behaved,” Maria Corea stated. “She had good grades in school. She was a girl who loved her parents and all her family.”
Investigators have been poring by Henderson’s troubling on-line footprint, the place he reportedly espoused racial and antisemitic content material.
In Henderson’s disturbing social media musings, obtained by WTVT, he wrote that he “was ashamed to be Black.”
“What happens on the incel forums … is that people of color are told the only reason they’re incels is because of their color and so it pushes them toward other extreme ideology that he apparently took on,” ADL consultant Carla Hill informed The Submit Wednesday evening.
Henderson posted antisemitic content material and posted a flyer from the Goyim Protection League — a neo-Nazi white supremacy group — and praised Adolf Hitler. Further writings reported by The Tennessean included statements towards “race-mixing” with a want to “take revenge” on society.
He praised different mass shooters and had pictures of a format of his highschool, weapons and ammunition.
Henderson partially livestreamed the capturing on the Australian platform Kick, in keeping with the corporate, which apologized.
