A 17-year-old shooter killed himself after fatally wounding a female student in a shooting at a Nashville high school on Wednesday, police said.
Nashville police spokesperson Don Aaron said during a news conference that two others who were injured in the shooting at Antioch High School are 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 down there, the attacker had shot himself, Aaron said.
The school, with about 2,000 students, is about 10 miles southeast of downtown Nashville.
School officials asked parents not to go to the high school to pick up their children. They were asked to go to a nearby hospital instead. Students will be bused there as they are released from the school by 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 in Nashville, a shooter killed three 9-year-olds and three adults at the Covenant School, a private Christian elementary school.
Hall and Loller write for the Associated Press.