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.

Antioch High School has about 2,000 students and is located in a suburb southeast of Nashville.

The violence is the latest in a series of school shootings witnessed in the United States in recent decades, and nearly two years after a shooting at a private Christian school in Nashville left three young students and three school staff members dead.

“My heart goes out to these families as they face unimaginable loss,” Metro Nashville Public Schools Director Adrienne Battle said during an afternoon press conference, according to the Tennessean newspaper.

Battle added that Antioch High School has multiple safety measures in place, including a secured vestibule at the school entrance, school resource officers and cameras with weapon-detection software, according to the Tennessean.

There were 330 school shootings in the U.S. last year, according to the K-12 School Shooting Database, a website founded by researcher David Riedman that lists such shootings since 1966.

Last year’s total was the second-highest, topped only by 2023 when there were 349 such incidents, according to the K-12 database.

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An image on her father’s Facebook account showing her wearing a shirt from a rock band has emerged as one the many hints that point to the Wisconsin school shooter’s obsession with several school shooters, including 1999 Columbine killer Eric Harris.

Harris was also seen wearing German industrial rock band KMFDM’s shirt before he, accompanied by another teen, opened fire at Colorado’s Columbine High School, killing 12 students and a teacher, as per NY Post.

In stark resemblance to the shooting 25 years ago, 15-year-old Natalie “Samantha” Rupnow also shot herself dead after opening fire in the classroom of the Abundant Life Christian School earlier this week, killing a fellow student and a teacher.

As police in Wisconsin interview friends and family and examine the online presence of the girl to understand the motive behind the shooting, a Tumblr account linked to Rupnow was found to feature a picture of Parkland high school shooter Nicholas Cruz and posts on the 2007 Finland school shooting.

Natalie ‘Samantha’ Rupnow wearing a KMFDM shirt. 

Further, an X account linked to her shows a person flashing an “OK” sign, which Anti-Defamation League says is a gesture linked to other school shooters. It also shared videos from the 2015 Sweden school stabbing attack and a suicide video from a gun range, NY Post reported.

Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes told CNN on Tuesday that investigators are also looking for a possible manifesto that the shooter may have left behind. Barnes said police are also examining her cell phone and computer to see if there any transmissions between her and someone else. Other questions investigators are trying to answer are how the 15-year-old obtained a gun and whether her parents were negligent.

Two wounded students were in critical condition with life-threatening injuries, while several other victims were wounded and expected to survive.

School shootings have been a macabre routine in the United States, with 322 of them this year, according to the K-12 School Shooting Database website. That is the second highest total of any year since 1966, according to that database – topped only by last year’s total of 349 such shootings. Only about 3% of all U.S. mass shootings perpetrated by females, studies show.

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A law enforcement officer works near the scene of a shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, U.S. September 4, 2024.
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Four people were killed and nine wounded in a school shooting in the U.S. State of Georgia on Wednesday (September 4, 2024), the State bureau of investigation said.

“Four dead. An additional nine were taken to various hospitals with injuries. The suspect is in custody and alive. Reports that the suspect has been ‘neutralized’ are inaccurate,” the bureau said in a social media post.