A 17-year-old gunman killed himself after fatally wounding a female student in a shooting at a US high school, police said.
MNPD spokesperson Don Aaron said during a news conference that two others who were injured in the shooting at Antioch High School in Nashville are being treated at a hospital.
Mr Aaron said there were two school resource officers in the building when the shooting happened.
People wait as school buses arrive following a shooting at the Antioch High School in Nashville (George Walker IV/AP)
They were not in the immediate vicinity of the cafeteria where the shooting took place, and by the time they got down there, the shooting had stopped and the shooter had shot himself, Mr Aaron said.
The school has about 2,000 students and is located in a neighbourhood of Nashville about 10 miles south east of the city centre.
School officials are asking parents not to go to the high school to pick up their children. They were asked to go to a nearby hospital instead.
An ambulance leaves the Antioch High School following a shooting (George Walker IV/AP)
Students will be taken by bus there as they are released from the school by police.
The FBI in Nashville referred questions to the Metro Nashville Police Department, which is leading the investigation, spokesperson Elizabeth Clement-Webb said in an email.
She said Nashville police had not asked for the FBI’s help in the investigation as of early Wednesday afternoon.
School shootings have been top of mind in Nashville. In March 2023, a shooter killed three nine-year-olds and three adults at a private Christian elementary school in the city, The Covenant School.