Victims speak out against neo-Nazi leader who inspired school shooting, planned NYC poison spree
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The survivors of a school shooting are speaking out against the neo-Nazi leader whose writing inspired the killer — in the hopes he’ll get a heavy sentence for trying to plan a terror attack against minority and Jewish children in New York City.
“This man manipulated a vulnerable and impressionable boy and turned him into a self-hating murderer,” wrote one teacher at Antioch High School in Nashville, Tenn., who watched a 16-year-old girl die at the hands of a teenage gunman on Jan. 22, 2025.
The shooter took his cues in part from the writings of Michail Chkhikvishvili, the leader of a neo-Nazi group called the Maniac Murder Cult, according to federal prosecutors.
Chkhikvishvili, 22, also known as “Commander Butcher,” penned several versions of a manifesto called the “Hater’s Handbook” — which was shared online and inspired several acts of real-world violence, the feds say. The one-time Brooklyn resident is a citizen of the nation of Georgia.
Now he is slated to be sentenced in Brooklyn Federal Court Wednesday after pleading guilty to trying to solicit someone who turned out to be an undercover agent into taking part in murder, bombing and arson plots.
One of those plots involved a bizarre scheme to dress as Santa and give poison candy to minority children on New Year’s Eve.
Prosecutors are asking U.S. District Court Judge Carol Amon to give him 17-and-a-half years behind bars for the charges of soliciting violent felonies and distributing bomb- and poison-making information. They’re also seeking approval to let one of the shooting victims deliver a statement at his sentencing.
The 17-year-old shooter at Antioch, Solomon Sahmad Charlie Henderson, said he was taking action on behalf of the Maniac Murder Cult and at least one other group and his manifesto mentioned Chkhikvishvili by name, according to the feds. He opened fire in the school cafeteria, killing 16-year-old Josselin Corea Escalante and injuring a 17-year-old student before killing himself.
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