
A teenager opened fire inside a Tennessee high school Wednesday, killing one student and wounding another, before taking his own life, police said.
A 17-year-old student fired multiple shots from a pistol inside the Antioch High School cafeteria, Nashville police said in a statement on social media. A 16-year-old girl was shot dead. Another boy, aged 17, was wounded by a bullet in his arm.
Police identified the shooter as Solomon Henderson. They said that the name of the dead girl is Josselin Corea Escalante. They were investigating the motives behind the violence.
Antioch High School has approximately 2,000 students and is located in a suburb southeast of Nashville.
The violence is the latest in a string of school shootings in the United States in recent decades, and comes nearly two years after a shooting at a private Christian school in Nashville killed three young students and three staff members.
“My heart goes out to these families as they face an unimaginable loss,” Metro Nashville Public Schools Director Adrian Battle said during an afternoon press conference, according to the Tennessee newspaper.
Battle added that Antioch High School has a number of security measures in place, including a secure vestibule at the school entrance, school resource officers and cameras with weapons detection software.
There were 330 school shootings in the U.S. last year, according to the K-12 School Shooting Database, a website founded by researcher David Redman that lists such shootings since 1966.
According to the K-12 database, last year’s total was the second highest, topped only by 2023 when there were 349 such incidents.
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