Two students dead, one injured after shooting at Nashville high school
Published 3:58 pm Wednesday, January 22, 2025
- Antioch High School in Nashville was the scene of a fatal shooting on January 22, 2025. (Photo: Metro Nashville Public Schools)
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By J. Holly McCall
Two teenage students are dead and one is injured following a Wednesday shooting at Antioch High School in South Nashville, Metro Nashville police confirmed.
The shooter, a 17-year-old male, shot two students in the cafeteria at 11:09 a.m. before killing himself, according to police. One of the victims, a female, was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead. The other, a male, suffered a grazing wound.
Police had not yet publicly identified the shooter and victims as of Wednesday at 2 p.m.
The shooting comes almost two years after three 9-year-old students and three staff members were shot to death at The Covenant School in Nashville before police intervened and killed the shooter.
It also comes just three months after a shooting on Nashville’s historic Jefferson Street killed a 24-year-old man, and injured six adults and three teenagers.
Wednesday’s shooting drew renewed grief from lawmakers, along with some pleas for “common sense gun safety solutions.”
“As a mother and a representative of this community, I grieve with the families, students, and staff who are enduring this unimaginable tragedy,” said Sen. Charlane Oliver, a Nashville Democrat who represents the Antioch area in the state legislature, in a statement. “My heart goes out to the victims who were shot, their loved ones, and everyone impacted by this horrific act of violence. No child should ever feel unsafe in their school, and no family should face the anguish of such a senseless loss.”
Other elected officials took to social media following the shooting.
Gov. Bill Lee said “he was praying for the victims, their families and the school community.”
State Sen. Jeff Yarbro, a Nashville Democrat, called for the legislature to “start doing the work needed to keep kids safe.”
“High school kids really ought to be able to go to the cafeteria without fear of being shot,” Yarbro said.
Nashville State Rep. John Ray Clemmons, the state House Democratic Caucus chair, echoed Yarbro’s sentiments.
“We will continue to fight for common sense gun safety solutions that protect our children and communities from gun violence,” Clemmons wrote.
Antioch High School serves about 2,200 students speaking 41 languages, and offers STEM programs and an international baccalaureate curriculum. School buses have taken students to be reunified with parents at Ascension St. Thomas Hospital, 3754 Murfreesboro Rd.
This is a breaking news story and will be updated.
(Cassandra Stephenson and Adam Friedman contributed to this story.)
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