A shooting in a Nashville high school cafeteria Wednesday left a female student dead and another student wounded, nearly two years after another deadly school shooting in the city that ignited an emotional debate about gun control in Tennessee.
The 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 identified him as Solomon Henderson. The wounded student was grazed by a bullet. He 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.
Investigators at this point have not established a connection between Henderson and the victims, and police said the gunfire may have been random, according to the statement. Two school resource officers were in the building when the shooting happened around 11 a.
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, students and is in Antioch, a neighborhood about 10 miles 16 kilometers southeast of downtown Nashville. At a family safety center close to a hospital, officials helped shocked parents reunite with their children. Dajuan Bernard was waiting at a Mapco service station to reunite with his son, a 10th grader, who was being held in the auditorium with other students Wednesday afternoon.
