A 17-year-old gunman killed himself after fatally wounding a female student Wednesday in a shooting at a high school in Nashville, Tennessee, police said.
Metro Nashville Police Department spokesperson Don Aaron said during a news conference that two others were injured in the shooting at Antioch High School and were being treated at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Aaron said there were two school resource officers in the building when the shooting happened. They were not in the immediate vicinity of the cafeteria where the shooting took place, and by the time they got there, the shooting had stopped and the shooter had shot himself, Aaron said.
The school has about 2,000 students and is located in a neighborhood of Nashville about 10 miles southeast of downtown.
School officials asked parents not to go to the high school to pick up their children but to go to a nearby hospital instead. Students were being bused there as they were released from the school by the police.
The FBI in Nashville referred questions to the Metro Nashville Police Department, which is leading the investigation, spokesperson Elizabeth Clement-Webb said in an email. She said Nashville police had not asked for the FBI's help in the investigation as of early Wednesday afternoon.
In March 2023, a gunman killed three 9-year-olds and three adults at a private Christian elementary school in Nashville, The Covenant School. The gunman was shot dead by police.
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