Jan 22 (Reuters) – A teenage boy on Wednesday opened fire inside a Tennessee high school, killing one student and wounding another before taking his own life, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nashville police said in a statement on social media that a 17-year-old male student fired multiple shots using a pistol inside the cafeteria at Antioch High School. A girl, 16, was shot and killed. Another boy, aged 17, was grazed by a bullet in his arm and wounded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police identified the boy who carried out the shooting as Solomon Henderson. They said the name of the girl killed is Josselin Corea Escalante. They were investigating a motive for the violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Antioch High School has about 2,000 students and is located in a suburb southeast of Nashville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The violence is the latest in a series of school shootings witnessed in the United States in recent decades, and nearly two years after a shooting at a private Christian school<\/u><\/a> in Nashville left three young students and three school staff members dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “My heart goes out to these families as they face unimaginable loss,” Metro Nashville Public Schools Director Adrienne Battle said during an afternoon press conference, according to the Tennessean newspaper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Battle added that Antioch High School has multiple safety measures in place, including a secured vestibule at the school entrance, school resource officers and cameras with weapon-detection software, according to the Tennessean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There were 330 school shootings in the U.S. last year, according to the K-12 School Shooting Database, a website founded by researcher David Riedman that lists such shootings since 1966.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Last year’s total was the second-highest, topped only by 2023 when there were 349 such incidents, according to the K-12 database.<\/p>\n\n\n\n