One student is dead and another is wounded after a third student opened fire with a pistol Wednesday at Antioch High School in Nashville, Tennessee, police said. The 17-year-old shooter then shot himself and died, according to police.
“There is no danger at the school,” police spokesman Don Aaron told reporters during a news briefing.
The two victims, both female, were taken to a hospital, where one died and the other was being treated for a graze wound, Aaron said. Another male student was being treated for a facial injury that wasn’t a gunshot wound.
Aaron said the shooter was a 17-year-old male student, but didn’t identify him.
The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department told CBS News that the shooting happened in the school cafeteria.
Police were called to the school at 11:11 a.m. local time, police said.
The police department posted a photo to social media of officers responding. Parents were urged to not come to the school and instead to go to a hospital to reunite with their children.
Nashville’s school district posted a phone number that families can call for information.
“The line is very busy,” the school district said. “Stay on even if you don’t hear a tone.”
Police said buses would take the students to the reunification center. Aerial footage from CBS affiliate WTVF-TV showed a crowd of people outside the hospital.
Over 2,100 students are enrolled at the public high school.
Antioch is a neighborhood of Nashville about 10 miles southeast of downtown.
The shooting happened less than two years after a shooter killed three children and three adults at a private Christian elementary school in Nashville.
This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.
