(22 Jan 2025)
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Nashville, Tennessee – 22 January 2025
1. Wide exterior of Antioch High School
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Chief John Drake, Metropolitan Nashville Police Department:
"What we know thus far is that if we had a male student, 17 years old, that rode the bus this morning to Antioch High School. During the course of the morning, this individual made his way to the cafeteria where he then confronted a 16-year-old that we identified as a female Hispanic student, fired, striking her. She is deceased. There is another male, 17 year old, young man that was wounded, with a graze wound and he has been treated at Vanderbilt and released. The shooter is 17…was 17 years old. He entered into the cafeteria, fired multiple rounds in the cafeteria, striking her and then before pulling the weapon on himself."
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Don Aaron, Nashville Police Department:
"There were two SROs (school resource officers) in the building. They were not in the immediate vicinity of the cafeteria when this happened. By the time the SROs got down there, the shooting had stopped and the shooter had shot himself."
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Don Aaron, Nashville Police Department:
"The fourth student who was transported to Vanderbilt suffered a facial injury from a fall. It was not gunshot related. He’s a male student and fell. I think he wears eyeglasses and had a facial injury as a result of the fall. And that was the fourth individual who went to Vanderbilt."
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Mayor Freddie O’Connell, Nashville:
"As a city, as a community, it is impossibly difficult to be here once again, dealing with the devastation of gun violence in one of our school communities."
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STORYLINE:
A female student was killed and another student was wounded Wednesday in shooting in a Nashville high school cafeteria, police said.
The 17-year-old shooter, who was also a student at Antioch High School, later shot and killed himself with a handgun, Metro Nashville Police spokesperson Don Aaron said during a news conference.
Police Chief John Drake said the shooter “confronted” a 16-year-old female student in the cafeteria and opened fire, killing her. Drake said police are looking into a motive and whether the students who were shot were targeted.
The male student who was wounded suffered a graze, and was treated and released from the hospital, Drake said. Another student was taken to a hospital for treatment of a facial injury that happened during a fall, Aaron said.
There were two school resource officers in the building when the shooting happened around 11 a.m. CDT, Aaron said. They were not in the immediate vicinity of the cafeteria, and by the time they got down there, the shooting was over and the gunman had killed himself, Aaron said.
The school has about 2,000 students and is located in Antioch, a neighborhood about 10 miles (16 kilometers) southeast of downtown Nashville.
Wednesday’s school shooting comes nearly two years after a shooter opened fire at a separate Nashville private elementary school and killed six people, including three children.
As a city, as a community, it is impossibly difficult to be here once again, dealing with the devastation of gun violence in one of our school communities,” Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell said.
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