One student killed, another wounded in Nashville school shooting

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A feminine pupil was killed and one other pupil was wounded Wednesday in capturing in a Nashville highschool cafeteria, police stated.
The 17-year-old shooter, who was additionally a pupil at Antioch Excessive Faculty, later shot and killed himself, Metro Nashville Police spokesperson Don Aaron stated throughout a information convention.

The coed who was wounded within the capturing suffered a graze, Aaron stated.

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A spokesperson for Vanderbilt College Medical Heart advised TV station Information 2 that one other pupil was taken to Vanderbilt Pediatrics for therapy of a watch harm that occurred after the capturing.

Aaron stated there have been two college useful resource officers within the constructing when the capturing occurred. They weren’t within the rapid neighborhood of the cafeteria the place the capturing came about, and by the point they acquired down there, the capturing had stopped and the shooter had used a handgun to shoot himself, Aaron stated.

The college has about 2,000 college students and is situated in a neighborhood of Nashville about 10 miles (16 kilometers) southeast of downtown.

Faculty officers requested dad and mom to not go to the highschool to choose up their youngsters however to go to a close-by hospital as a substitute. College students had been being bused there as they had been launched from the varsity by police.

On the hospital getting used as a reunification middle, officers had been serving to shocked dad and mom to get again with their youngsters.

Dajuan Bernard was ready at a Mapco service station to reunite along with his son, a tenth grader, who was being held within the auditorium with different college students on Wednesday afternoon. He first heard of the capturing from his son who “was slightly startled,” Bernard stated. His son was upstairs from the place it came about however stated he heard the gunfire.

“He was OK and let me know that every part was OK,” Bernard stated.

“His mother needs to homeschool anyway, so I don’t know. We’d take into account it,” he stated. “This world is so loopy, it may occur anyplace. We’ve simply acquired to guard the children, and lift the children proper to forestall them from even doing this. That’s the toughest half.”

FBI spokesperson Elizabeth Clement-Webb stated in an e-mail that Nashville police had not requested for the feedral company’s assist in the capturing investigation as of early Wednesday afternoon.

Faculty shootings have been high of thoughts in Nashville. In March 2023, a shooter killed three 9-year-olds and three adults at a non-public Christian elementary college within the metropolis, The Covenant Faculty.