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Two students, including the shooter, are dead and another student is injured after shots rang out in the cafeteria of Antioch High School in Nashville at 11:09 a.m. Wednesday.
Metro Nashville Police Department spokesman Don Aaron said police received the first call to 911 two minutes after the 17-year-old student opened fire.
The shooter killed one student, Aaron said. He then turned the gun on himself and died as a result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The third student suffered a grazing wound. A fourth student received a facial wound due to a fall, according to Aaron, but was not directly hurt by the gunfire. He was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
On Wednesday afternoon, MNPD identified the victim who died as 16-year-old Josselin Corea Escalante and the shooter as 17-year-old Solomon Henderson. Police are currently in the process of identifying the other students.
The shooting comes nearly two years after three 9-year-old students and three adult staff members were killed in a shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville. The shooter was also killed by police.
Antioch High School’s boys and girls basketball games at Hillsboro High School on Friday have been canceled, according to Mark North, MNPS athletics director.
