A teenager opened fire inside a Tennessee high school Wednesday, killing one student and wounding another before taking his own life, police said.
Nashville police said in a statement on social media that a 17-year-old student fired several shots inside the Antioch High School cafeteria. A 16-year-old girl was shot and killed. Another boy, aged 17, was hit in the arm by a bullet.
Police identified the shooter as Solomon Henderson. The dead girl’s name is Josselin Corea Escalante. Police were investigating the motive for the violence.
Antioch High School has approximately 2,000 students and is located in a southeastern suburb of Nashville.
The violence is the latest in a series of school shootings in the United States in recent decades. The case comes nearly two years after a shooting at a private Christian school in Nashville left three young students and three staff members dead.
“My thoughts go out to these families facing unimaginable loss,” Metro Nashville Public Schools Director Adrienne Battle said during a news conference, according to the Tennessean.
According to the K-12 School Shooting Database, a website founded by researcher David Riedman that lists school shootings since 1966, there were 330 school shootings in the United States last year.
Last year’s total was the second-highest, surpassed only by 2023, when 349 such incidents occurred, according to the K-12 database.
Source: Terra
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