A teenage boy on Wednesday opened hearth inside a Tennessee highschool, killing one pupil and wounding one other earlier than taking his personal life, police mentioned.
Nashville police mentioned in an announcement on social media {that a} 17-year-old male pupil fired a number of pictures utilizing a pistol contained in the cafeteria at Antioch High School. A lady, 16, was shot and killed. Another boy, aged 17, was grazed by a bullet in his arm and wounded.
Police recognized the boy who carried out the taking pictures as Solomon Henderson. They mentioned the identify of the lady killed is Josselin Corea Escalante. They have been investigating a motive for the violence.
Antioch High School has about 2,000 college students and is positioned in a suburb southeast of Nashville.
The violence is the most recent in a sequence of faculty shootings witnessed within the United States in current a long time, and practically two years after a taking pictures at a personal Christian faculty in Nashville left three younger college students and three faculty employees members useless.
“My heart goes out to these families as they face unimaginable loss,” Metro Nashville Public Schools Director Adrienne Battle mentioned throughout a day press convention, in accordance with the Tennessean newspaper.
Battle added that Antioch High School has a number of security measures in place, together with a secured vestibule on the faculty entrance, faculty useful resource officers and cameras with weapon-detection software program, in accordance with the Tennessean.
There have been 330 faculty shootings within the U.S. final yr, in accordance with the Okay-12 School Shooting Database, an internet site based by researcher David Riedman that lists such shootings since 1966.
Last yr’s complete was the second-highest, topped solely by 2023 when there have been 349 such incidents, in accordance with the Okay-12 database.
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