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One Dead, One Wounded In Nashville High School Shooting

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A teenager fatally shot a 16-year-old student and wounded another Wednesday at a Nashville high school cafeteria before fatally shooting himself, officials said. The gunman, 17-year-old Solomon Henderson, used a handgun to open fire at Antioch High School just after 11 a.m. CT, NBC reports. The 16-year-old who was killed was identified as Josselin Corea Escalante. A male student, 17, suffered a graze wound to the arm and was treated at a hospital and released, police said. "The investigation to this point has not established a connection between Henderson and the two shooting victims. It may be that they were struck by his random gunfire in the cafeteria," police said in a statement Wednesday evening. Nashville Police Chief John Drake said earlier that Henderson was an active student at the school and took the school bus in the morning before later opening fire in the cafeteria. “He entered into the cafeteria firing multiple rounds, striking her ... before pulling the weapon on himself," Drake said at a news conference.


A motive is unclear, but Drake said authorities are looking into "some materials on the internet."

One student said he saw people get shot and hid behind garbage cans before fleeing out a back door. “I saw people getting shot, on the ground, bleeding and stuff. Me and my friends and everybody in the back, we all ran out the side door crouching down. I tried to help these people who was falling, getting pushed," the student told NBC affiliate WSMV of Nashville. "We ran out the back of the school near the football field.” According to the teen, the school searches students but does not have metal detectors. Adrienne Battle, Director of Metro Nashville Public Schools, told reporters that over the years the district has implemented a range of safety measures, including having a school resource officer. There were two school resource officers at Antioch High School, but they were in a different part of the building when the shooting started, the police department said. They rushed to the cafeteria and arrived right after the shooter killed himself, the department said.

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