17-year-old student kills student in US’s Nashville school, then shoots himself

17-year-old student kills student in US’s Nashville school, then shoots himself



A teenage boy opened fire inside a Tennessee high school on Wednesday, killing one student and wounding another, then took his own life, police said.

A 17-year-old student fired multiple shots from a handgun inside the Antioch High School cafeteria, Nashville police said in a statement on social media. A 16-year-old girl was shot dead. Another boy, aged 17, was shot in the arm and injured.

Police have identified the boy who fired the shots as Solomon Henderson. He told that the name of the killed girl is Jocelyn Correa Escalante. They were investigating the motive for the violence.

Antioch High School has approximately 2,000 students and is located in a suburb southeast of Nashville.

The violence is the latest in a series of school shootings seen in the United States in recent decades, and comes nearly two years after a shooting at a private Christian school in Nashville left three young students and three school staff members dead.

“My heart goes out to these families as they have suffered unimaginable loss,” Metro Nashville Public Schools Director Adrienne Battle said during an afternoon press conference, according to the Tennessean newspaper.

Battle said that according to the Tennessean, Antioch High School has several security measures in place, including a secure vestibule at the entrance of the school, school resource officers and cameras with weapon-detection software.

There were 330 school shootings in the US last year, according to the K-12 School Shooting Database, a website founded by researcher David Riedman, which lists such shootings since 1966.

Last year’s total was the second highest, according to the K-12 database, with a peak until 2023 when 349 such incidents occurred.


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