Guest post by AbleChild at JoeHoft.com — republished with permission
Following today’s Tennessee Star breaking news story on 17-year-old Antioch High School shooter, Solomon Henderson, new details have emerged regarding the gunman’s multiple behavioral suspensions from school.
These suspensions have intensified calls for access to the shooter’s mental health records. The Nashville Metro Police Department Chief’s continued silence on the matter has fueled demands for greater transparency.
The joint efforts of AbleChild and Reform Pharma, a division of Robert F. Kennedy’s Children’s Health Defense, both nonprofits, worked on language to combat the root cause of the lack of solving these mass killings.
The proposed legislation SB 2937 and HB 2933, aimed at addressing mental health psychotropic drug use in relation to mass shootings; it failed to advance in the Tennessee legislature.
Sources suggest that behind-the-scenes interference from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) led to the sponsor not considering the bill.
And AbleChild and Reform Pharma persisted in its efforts to introduce legislation that would expose the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and its pharmaceutical industry funding connections to police training programs.
With this most recent shooting it seems critical for this legislation to be reintroduced.
The relationship between the mental health industry/big pharma, school behavioral health, law enforcement, and public safety policies in the aftermath of the Antioch High School tragedy must be addressed.
Furthermore, the controversy surrounding Audrey Hale’s case continues to intensify, with a new focus on the unreleased psychological records collected by the Metro Nashville Police Department, psych folder #46.
The Antioch shooting adds another layer to the ongoing battle over the release of Hale’s mental health psychiatric treatment.
As of January 2025, the State of Tennessee continues to withhold key evidence in the Hale case, including the shooter’s psychological records, citing ongoing investigations and potential harm to future cases.
This stance has fueled speculation about the true nature of the evidence and its potential implications for the behavioral health industry and their government contracts. This vital data is critical to understanding the factors that led to the tragic event at the Covenant School.
Too often, documents about the shooters and their mental health status are withheld from the public, leaving everyone wondering what was the cause of the violent behavior.
Oddly enough, the behavioral health organizations are never part of the conversation as to their role in violence and, rather, obtain increased funding. This has to stop.
This must be the last school shooting where information about the mental health history and psychiatric drug use by the shooter is withheld. Legislation like SB 2937 and HB 2933 must be reconsidered this legislative session.
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