Antioch High School students describe chaotic scenes after the shooting. The victim’s family said

A student at Antioch High School in Tennessee said he and his classmates saw people “shooting on the ground” as they ran for the building’s exit in yesterday’s deadly attack.

Accounts of the chaotic scenes at a Nashville school Wednesday left investigators searching for a motive behind the shooting. Police said the 17-year-old student shooter – who posted “extremely disturbing” posts online – killed 16-year-old Jocelyn Coria Escalante and wounded another student before turning the gun on himself.

“We were in the cafeteria eating lunch like the other day and we heard gunshots in front of the cafeteria and then he looked around and people were screaming. We ran behind the trash cans,” said one student. He told WSMV Telling when the gunshots were heard.

“I saw people who had been shot and bleeding on the ground,” he said, recounting how he and his friends ducked and ran to a side door to escape the cafeteria.

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as if In a separate interview with WZTV, “He was a monster who killed people,” the student said.

Another student told WMSV: “Everybody was separated – a lot of students were on the outside. He wasn’t the kind of kid you’d think would do something like that. “So I was wondering what was going on in his head. Just one whole conversation would have ended all of that, not only that, but I felt that it was not going to lead to that.”

A student of Antioch he told WKRN News 2. She and the alleged gunman “were in ROTC together this year and he was always top of the class,” she said.

“I know him personally. He was in my room, and I didn’t think he was anything like that. I thought he was a sweet, quiet guy, but he wasn’t,” said another.

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Joseline Correa Escalante’s father Featured on WTVF. “I told her how much I love her every day,” Korea told the station, according to German.

“It’s not fair,” he added.

Escalante’s aunt, Maria Correa, told WTVF: “She was a very calm and well-behaved child.”

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“She did well in school. She was a girl who loved her parents and her whole family,” Correa added.