The suspected shooter who killed one student at a high school in Nashville on Tuesday has been identified as Solomon Henderson, 17.
Police say a shooting at a Nashville high school has left one student dead and another woulded. Metro Nashville Police spokesperson Don Aaron said during a news conference that the 17-year-old gunman later shot and killed himself with a handgun.
The "Nashville School Violence Support & Healing Fund" began collecting donations to the fund Wednesday, with all proceeds going directly to the families of victims in the Antioch High shooting, as well as faculty and other students experiencing emotional trauma in the wake of the shooting.
Metro Public School leaders are trying to reassure the public after the Antioch High School shooting, but it exposed inadequate safety.
A 17-year-old boy armed with a pistol, identified by authorities as Solomon Henderson, fired several shots in the cafeteria. A female student, 16-year-old Josselin Corea Escalante, was killed and a boy was grazed on his arm. Henderson then shot himself in the head and was fatally wounded.
Gunfire erupted just after 11 a.m. Wednesday at Antioch High School – about 45 minutes southeast of downtown Nashville – when 17-year-old Solomon Henderson “confronted” the victim before firing
A student shot at least two other students Wednesday at Antioch High School outside Nashville, Tennessee, police said. The shooter then shot himself, according to police.
A student shot at least two other students Wednesday at Antioch High School outside Nashville, Tennessee, police said. The shooter then shot himself, according to police.
Two people were shot before the shooter turned the gun on themselves at Antioch High School in Nashville, Wednesday, according to officials.
Police said the suspected shooter sustained a self-inflicted gunshot wound and the school district said Antioch High School is on lockdown.
Two people were shot and the shooter turned the gun on himself at Nashville's Antioch High School, according to the Metro Nashville Police Department. Condition of all three people shot was not immediately known,