One student is dead and another is injured after a third student opened fire with a gun at Antioch High School in Nashville, Tennessee, on Wednesday, police said. The 17-year-old gunman then shot himself and died, according to police.
The shooting took place in the school’s cafeteria, Nashville Police Chief John Drake told reporters during a news briefing. A police SWAT team searched the school and found no additional victims or shooters, Drake said.
“There is no danger at the school,” police spokesman Don Aaron said.
The two victims were taken to a hospital, where a female student died and a male student was treated for an abrasion to his arm, Aaron said. Aaron clarified the gender of the injured student during a later briefing.
Police identified the female student as Josselin Corea Escalante, 16. The shooter was identified as a 17-year-old student at the school, Solomon Henderson.
Another male student was treated for a facial injury that was not a gunshot wound after he fell during the chaos, Aaron said.
Police did not immediately have a motive for the shooting and Drake said it was not yet clear whether the victims were targeted. An investigation was underway.
The shooting started at 11:09 a.m. local time in the cafeteria, Aaron said. Police were called to the school at 11:11 a.m., he said.
The shooter took the bus to the school, Drake said. He went to a restroom to possibly “retrieve his weapon” before confronting Escalante in the cafeteria, the police chief said.
The gunman fired multiple times, Drake said. Officers found the gunman deceased in the cafeteria, Drake said.
Federal authorities were working to trace the gun used in the shooting as investigators try to determine how the shooter obtained it, Drake said.
Adrienne Battle, the city’s school principal, said the school district has used school staff, security cameras with weapon detection software and security vestibules as part of its school safety measures. At the time of the shooting, two school police officers were at the school, but not in the immediate vicinity of the cafeteria, Aaron said.
“I know there are questions about whether additional measures, such as stationary metal detectors, should be considered,” Battle said. “While past research has shown that these have had limitations and unintended consequences, we will continue to explore emerging technologies and strategies to strengthen school safety.”
The shooting was partially streamed live on the streaming platform KICK, according to a statement from the company.
KICK said it removed the video from its platform and banned the account. “Violence has no place on KICK,” the platform said in a statement. “We are actively cooperating with law enforcement and are taking all appropriate steps to assist their investigation.”
KICK, an Australian company, was founded in 2022 by a group that also includes Bijan Tehrani and Ed Craven, co-founders of cryptocurrency-based online gambling platform Stake.com.
The platform, similar to Twitch and YouTube Live, is known for its generous revenue sharing model with creators. While the platform is also known for its less restrictive content moderation, it has policies banning images of violence and hate speech.
Parents were urged earlier in the day not to come to school, but to go to a hospital to reunite with their children.
The Nashville School District posted a phone number that families can call for information.
“The line is very busy,” the school district said. “Keep going even if you don’t hear a tone.”
Police said buses would take students to the reunification center. Aerial footage from CBS affiliate WTVF-TV showed a crowd of people outside the hospital.
More than 2,100 students are enrolled in the public high school.
Antioch is a neighborhood in Nashville, about 10 miles southeast of downtown.
The shooting occurred less than two years after a gunman was killed three children and three adults at a private Christian elementary school in Nashville.
According to data from the K-12 School Shooting Database, 69 victims were killed in school shooting incidents in 2024.
According to the group, there have been 10 school shootings so far in 2025. In 2024, there were 330 incidents, the second highest number in at least the past decade. The data includes any instance in which a gun is fired or brandished or a bullet hits school property, including gang violence, domestic incidents and accidents.
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