Teenage gunman kills female student and himself at Nashville high school

A school bus arrives at unification site following a shooting at the Antioch High School in Nashville(George Walker IV/AP)

A 17-year-old gunman killed himself after fatally wounding a female student in a shooting at a Nashville 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 are being treated at a hospital.

The school has about 2,000 students and is located in a neighbourhood of Nashville about 10 miles south east of the city centre.

People wait as school buses arrive following a shooting at the Antioch High School in Nashville (George Walker IV/AP)

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.

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.