Teenager kills female student in Nashville school shooting, US police say

Police accidental that a 17-year-old pupil successful the confederate metropolis of Nashville opened occurrence successful a precocious schoolhouse cafeteria, sidesplitting 1 and wounding 2 others.

Law enforcement successful the metropolis of Nashville, Tennessee, person said that a 17-year-old fishy fatally changeable a pistillate precocious schoolhouse pupil earlier taking his ain life.

Wednesday’s shooting astatine Antioch High School successful the confederate United States near 2 others injured arsenic well.

“I’ve been briefed connected the incidental astatine Antioch High School and americium grateful for instrumentality enforcement and archetypal responders who responded rapidly and proceed to investigate,” Governor Bill Lee said successful a societal media post. “As we await much information, I articulation Tennesseans successful praying for the victims, their families and the schoolhouse community.”

Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) spokesperson Don Aaron said during a quality league that the injured are being treated astatine Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

BREAKING: A shooting incidental is nether probe astatine Antioch High School. Three radical person been wounded, including the suspect, who changeable himself. Reunification tract for parents is 3754 M'boro Pk. Buses volition beryllium taking students there. pic.twitter.com/G5UypO7neP

— Metro Nashville PD (@MNPDNashville) January 22, 2025

Parents were told not to travel to the school, located astir 16 kilometres (10 miles) southeast of downtown Nashville. Instead, they were advised to prime up their loved ones from a adjacent aesculapian facility.

Gun unit continues to plague the US, with schoolhouse shootings a persistent example.

A database maintained by The Washington Post indicates that, arsenic of December, determination person been 426 schoolhouse shootings successful the US since 1999, erstwhile 2 teenage gunmen opened occurrence astatine Colorado’s Columbine High School.

They killed 15 people, including themselves, successful what was the deadliest schoolhouse shooting up to that point.

Other high-profile schoolhouse shootings person unfolded successful the quarter-century since, including a shooting astatine Sandy Hook Elementary School successful Connecticut that claimed 26 lives, including 20 children and six staff.

The MNPD said that Wednesday’s onslaught began astatine 11:09am (17:09 GMT). The fishy fired aggregate shots successful the schoolhouse cafeteria earlier shooting himself successful the head. In summation to the teenage miss killed successful the attack, 1 pupil was wounded and different was grazed successful the arm.

Aaron, the constabulary spokesperson, said that 2 schoolhouse assets officers were connected tract but were successful a antithetic portion of the gathering erstwhile the shooting began. By the clip they reached the area, the shooting was implicit and the suspected attacker was dead.

In a connection afterwards, President Donald Trump offered condolences to the families and survivors involved.

“The President and his squad are monitoring the quality retired of Nashville,” the connection said. “As details unfold, the White House offers its heartfelt thoughts and prayers to those impacted by this senseless calamity and convey the brave archetypal responders responding to the incident.”

This is not the archetypal clip successful caller years that the Nashville country has suffered specified a tragedy.

In March 2023, an attacker killed 3 children, each 9 years old, and 3 adults astatine a backstage Christian simple schoolhouse called The Covenant School.

In response, the Tennessee legislature passed a measure allowing immoderate teachers and unit to transportation concealed weapons connected field astatine nationalist schools, though critics questioned the efficacy of the measure, successful the look of loosened weapon restrictions successful the state.

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