Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. The shooter killed one student, Aaron said. He then turned the gun on himself and died as a result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

A 17-year-old boy armed with a pistol, identified by authorities as Solomon Henderson, fired several shots in the cafeteria. A female student, 16-year-old Josselin Corea Escalante, was killed and a boy was grazed on his arm. Henderson then shot himself in the head and was fatally wounded.

Police say a shooting at a Nashville high school has left one student dead and another woulded. Metro Nashville Police spokesperson Don Aaron said during a news conference that the 17-year-old gunman later shot and killed himself with a handgun.