One student is dead and another is wounded after a third student opened fire with a pistol Wednesday at Antioch High School in Nashville, Tennessee, police said. The 17-year-old shooter then shot himself and died, according to police.
The shooting happened in the school’s cafeteria, Nashville Police Chief John Drake told reporters during a news briefing. A police SWAT team searched the school and didn’t find any 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 a graze wound to his arm, Aaron said. Aaron clarified the gender of the wounded student at 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 being treated for a facial injury that wasn’t a gunshot wound after falling during the chaos, Aaron said.
Police didn’t immediately have a motive for the shooting, and Drake said it wasn’t yet clear if the victims were targeted. An investigation was ongoing. Police said that as of Wednesday night they hadn’t determined any connection between the shooter and the two students who were hit, noting that “it may be that they were struck by his random gunfire in the cafeteria.”
Police also said authorities were “examining very concerning on-line writings and social media posts” connected to the shooter as part of the investigation.
The shooting started in the cafeteria at 11:09 a.m. local time, 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 into a restroom to possibly “retrieve his weapon” before confronting Escalante in the cafeteria, the police chief said.
The shooter fired multiple times, Drake said. Responding officers found the shooter deceased in the cafeteria, Drake said.
Federal authorities were tracing the gun used in the shooting as investigators try to determine how the shooter obtained it, Drake said.
Adrienne Battle, the city’s director of schools, said the school district has used school resource officers, security cameras with weapon-detection software and security vestibules as part of its safety measures at schools. Two school resource officers were at the school but not in the immediate vicinity of the cafeteria at the time of the shooting, Aaron said.
“I know there are questions about whether additional steps such as stationary metal detectors should be considered,” Battle said. “While past research has shown they have had limitations and unintended consequences, we will continue exploring emerging technologies and strategies to strengthen school safety.”
The shooting was partially livestreamed on the streaming platform KICK, according to a statement from the company.
KICK said it had 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 working with law enforcement and taking all appropriate steps to support their investigation.”
An Australian company, KICK was founded in 2022 by a group that includes Bijan Tehrani and Ed Craven, co-founders of the cryptocurrency-based online gambling platform Stake.com.
The platform, which is similar to Twitch and YouTube Live, is known for its generous revenue-sharing model with creators. Though the platform is also known for its less restrictive content moderation, it has policies banning depictions of violence and hate speech.
Parents earlier in the day were urged to not come to the school and instead to go to a hospital to reunite with their children.
Nashville’s school district posted a phone number that families can call for information.
“The line is very busy,” the school district said. “Stay on even if you don’t hear a tone.”
Police said buses would take the students to the reunification center. Aerial footage from CBS affiliate WTVF-TV showed a crowd of people outside the hospital.
Over 2,100 students are enrolled at the public high school.
Antioch is a neighborhood of Nashville about 10 miles southeast of downtown.
Nashville school shooting location
The shooting happened less than two years after a shooter killed three children and three adults at a private Christian elementary school in Nashville.
In 2024, 69 victims were killed in school shooting incidents, according to data from the K-12 School Shooting Database.
So far in 2025, there have been 10 school shooting incidents, according the group. In 2024, there were 330 incidents, the second-highest total in at least the last decade. The data includes any instance of a gun fired or brandished or when a bullet hits school property, including gang violence, domestic incidents and accidents.
Deaths from school shootings nationwide
In 2025 so far, one victim has been killed in a school shooting incident.
