One student was killed and another was injured by a 17-year-old who opened fire in the cafeteria of Antioch High School in Nashville, Tennessee, on Wednesday.. Shooter then committed suicidereports TASR based on reports from NBC News and Fox News.
Local police spokesman Don Aaron said at a press conference that a 17-year-old African-American male fired several shots in the cafeteria. The injured student, who has an abrasion on her hand, is in a stable condition in hospital. The incident happened at 11:09 a.m. local time (6:09 p.m. CET). At the time of the shooting, two police officers were assigned to protect the school building. But by the time they got to the dining room, the shooter was no longer alive. The motive for the shooting is under investigation.
Antioch High School has an enrollment of approximately 2,000 students. It is located in the Antioch neighborhood about 10 miles southeast of downtown Nashville. In March 2023, a similar tragedy occurred in Nashville. At the private Christian primary school The Covenant School then her former pupil killed three children aged nine and three adults.
