Teen fatally shoots a female student and himself at Antioch High School in Nashville, police say

A teenage boy on Wednesday opened fire inside a Tennessee high school, killing one student and wounding another before taking his own life, police said.

Nashville police said in a statement on social media that a 17-year-old male student fired multiple shots using a pistol inside the cafeteria at Antioch High School. A girl, 16, was shot and killed. Another boy, aged 17, was grazed by a bullet in his arm and wounded.

Police identified the boy who carried out the shooting as Solomon Henderson. They said the name of the girl killed is Josselin Corea Escalante. They were investigating a motive for the violence.