(23 Jan 2025)
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Nashville, Tennessee – 23 January 2025
1. Various, a family putting balloons at a makeshift memorial outside Antioch High School
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Sean Braisted, Chief of Communications and Technology, Metro Nashville Public Schools:
"It ties into our existing network of cameras and it uses AI technology to detect weapons. And so it has been activated before. Typically, it has been when a police officer has a weapon or there have been realistic looking toy guns like water guns and other things like that. In this instance, based on the shooter’s location, in proximity to the cameras, and they just… it wasn’t close enough to get an accurate read and to activate that alarm."
3. Tight of Madonna Elmore and her daughter standing in front of a makeshift memorial outside Antioch High School
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Madonna Elmore, parent of two students at Antioch High School:
"And I know I’ve tried to protect my kids at all costs. So if I’ve given you all the the right and authority to have my child and you didn’t protect him or her, I’m not, I’m not satisfied at all."
5. Tight of Madonna Elmore and her daughter standing in front of a makeshift memorial outside Antioch High School
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Madonna Elmore, parent of two students at Antioch High School:
"I feel like the school let us down tremendously. And this is not the first incident that I’ve heard my kids telling me that it was guns or different incidents that happened. And we haven’t been informed."
7. Tight on signs and teddy bears outside Antioch High School
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Adrianne Battle, superintendent of Metro Nashville Public Schools:
"There’s not anything that’s off the table for us. We will continue to dig into those resources and when possible, from investment and timing and all those other things, we will continue to balance the things that have been working in our schools and creating opportunities for new safety and security measures to be implemented across our high schools and across the district."
9. Tight on signs and teddy bears outside Antioch High School
STORYLINE:
Nashville schools officials have faced questions about why new technology that uses a school’s cameras and AI capabilities to detect weapons didn’t trigger a warning on Wednesday when a student opened fire with a gun inside a school cafeteria.
Police said Solomon Henderson, a 17-year-old Black student at Antioch High School, shot and killed Josselin Corea Escalante, who was 16 and Hispanic, in the school’s cafeteria on Wednesday, then turned the gun on himself.
Parents have expressed concerns about the school’s security systems. Madonna Elmore has two twin children who attend Antioch High School and her daughter had just left the cafeteria when the shooting began.
"I know I’ve tried to protect my kids at all costs," Elmore said after taking flowers to a makeshift memorial outside of the school on Thursday. "So if I’ve given you all the the right and authority to have my child and you didn’t protect him or her, I’m not, I’m not satisfied at all."
The lack of metal detectors has also been brought into focus, and while Superintendent Adrienne Battle has said there are pros and cons to metal detectors, she said nothing is off the table.
Although the high school did not have metal detectors, the school did have a program called Omnilert that was designed to detect guns captured on the school’s camera systems.
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