School Shooting Victim Identified as ‘Kind and Loving’ 16-Year-Old Girl

The 16-year-old girl killed in a shooting at a Tennessee high school on Wednesday has been identified.


Josselin Corea Escalante was one of two students shot after a 17-year-old student boy opened fire in the cafeteria of Antioch High School in Nashville on the morning of Jan. 22, according to a Wednesday statement from the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department.

Corea Escalante was pronounced dead at a local hospital while the other student was expected to survive after being grazed in the arm, police said. The gunman, identified as Solomon Henderson, then fatally shot himself.