Antioch High School students recount chaotic scenes as the shooting unfolded, the victim’s family says

Student at Antioch High School in Tennessee says he saw people “being shot on the ground” as he and his colleagues ran for the building’s exits during the fatal attack there yesterday.

Reports describing the chaotic scenes that took place inside school in Nashville They appear Wednesday as investigators search for a motive behind the attack. Police say the 17-year-old student shooter — who posted “very disturbing” texts online — killed Josselin Corea Escalante, 16, and wounded another student before turning the gun on himself.

“We were in the cafeteria right at lunch like every other day, and we kept hearing gunshots outside the cafeteria, and then people were looking around screaming. We ran behind the trash cans,” one student told WSMV, recounting the moment when the shots rang out.

“I saw people shot on the ground, bleeding,” he added, recalling how he and his friends crouched down and ran to a side door to escape the cafeteria.

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ua separate interview for WZTV, the student said the shooter “was a monster, he just killed people.”

“Everybody 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, he did his work, he was quiet,” another student told WMSV . “I really wondered what was going through his mind. I felt like one whole conversation could have ended it all, just not led to it.”

One student from Antioch he told WKRN News 2 that she and the alleged attacker “were in ROTC together this year too, and he was always top of the class.”

“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’s not,” said another.

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Father of Josselin Corea Escalante, identified by WTVF as German Corea, told the station that “I told her every day how much I loved her.”

“It’s not fair,” he reportedly added.

Escalante’s aunt, Maria Corea, also told WTVF that she “was a very calm and well-behaved girl.”

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“She had good grades at school. She was a girl who loved her parents and her whole family,” Corea added.