A 17-year old African American male student of Antioch High School is suspected of opening fire inside the school’s cafeteria on Wednesday, striking two students before turning the gun on himself, the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) announced.
Don Aaron, director of the MNPD’s Media Relations Office, confirmed to reporters just after 1:00 p.m. that MNPD first received a call at 11:11 a.m. Wednesday regarding shots fired inside Antioch High School.
Two female students were struck by the suspected shooter’s gunfire, one of which was pronounced deceased at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville and another who was grazed in the arm and remains in stable condition, Aaron confirmed.
Another student, a male, sustained an injury to the face during the incident and was not struck by gunfire.
Aaron, noting how the shooting occurred in the cafeteria, said two school resource officers were inside the school at the time of the shooting, however, were not in the vicinity of the cafeteria as shots were fired.
The suspected shooter, now deceased, turned the gun on himself before school resource officers arrived at the cafeteria, Aaron said.
