One pupil killed and one other wounded in Nashville college capturing | Tennessee

One pupil was killed and one other wounded on Wednesday in a capturing in a Nashville-area highschool cafeteria, police stated.

The 17-year-old shooter later shot and killed himself, Don Aaron, a Metro Nashville police spokesperson stated throughout a information convention.

Authorities have recognized the shooter as Solomon Henderson in a put up on X. Citing native police, information outlet WSMV reported the sufferer as 16-year previous Josselin Corea Escalante. Each had been present college students on the Tennessee college, Antioch highschool.

Talking to WSMV by means of a translator, Escalante’s father stated that he had “no phrases” to explain what had occurred to his daughter.

Initially, police had stated three individuals had been wounded, together with the gunman.

A pupil who was wounded within the capturing suffered a graze, Aaron stated.

A spokesperson for Vanderbilt College medical heart informed TV station Information 2 that one other pupil had been taken to Vanderbilt Pediatrics for remedy of an eye fixed harm that occurred after the capturing.

Aaron stated there had been two college useful resource officers within the constructing when the capturing occurred. They weren’t within the quick neighborhood of the cafeteria the place the capturing befell and by the point they obtained there, the capturing had stopped and the shooter had used a handgun to kill himself, Aaron stated.

The college has about 2,000 college students and is situated in Antioch, a neighborhood about 10 miles south-east of downtown Nashville.

College officers requested mother and father to not go to the highschool to select up their kids however to go to a close-by hospital as a substitute. College students have been being bused there as they have been launched from the college by police.

On the hospital getting used as a reunification heart, officers have been serving to shocked mother and father get in contact with their kids.

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 a bit of startled”, Bernard stated. His son was upstairs from the place it befell and stated he heard the gunfire.

“He was OK and let me know that all the things was OK,” Bernard stated.

Metro Nashville public faculties alerted the general public to the capturing at 11.38am.

“Antioch Excessive College is on a lockdown attributable to pictures being fired inside the college constructing. Metro Police are on the scene,” Metro faculties posted on X.

The capturing got here lower than two years after a former pupil shot and killed three kids and three adults at an elementary college in Nashville. The gunman was shot and killed by police.

The tragedy had prompted a months-long effort amongst lots of of neighborhood organizers, households, protesters and plenty of extra pleading with lawmakers to think about passing gun management measures in response to the capturing.

Nonetheless, in a Republican-dominant state, GOP lawmakers refused to take action. With the Republican supermajority intact after November’s election, it’s unlikely attitudes have modified sufficient to think about any significant payments that may deal with gun management.

As a substitute, lawmakers have been extra open to including extra safety to varsities – together with passing a invoice final 12 months that may enable some academics and employees to hold hid handguns on public college grounds and bar mother and father and different academics from realizing who was armed.

Antioch has endured different outstanding shootings in recent times. A 2017 deadly capturing on the Burnette Chapel Church of Christ killed one girl and wounded seven individuals. And in 2018, a shooter killed 4 individuals at a Waffle Home.

The Related Press contributed reporting