A 17-year-old boy armed with a pistol opened fire in a high school cafeteria in Nashville on Wednesday, fatally shooting one female student and injuring another before killing himself, the police said.
Don Aaron, a spokesman for the Nashville Metropolitan Police Department, said the female student who had been injured was grazed in the arm by a bullet at Antioch High School, about 20 miles southeast of downtown Nashville, and was being treated at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. A male student was also being treated for what Mr. Aaron described as a facial injury, though it was not the result of a gunshot.
The gunman fired multiple shots in the school’s cafeteria after 11 a.m., Mr. Aaron said. He did not provide any additional details about the shooter or the victims.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was also responding, its Nashville bureau said.
Metro Nashville Public Schools said the high school was on lockdown around noon local time. Officials had set up a reunification area for parents.
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