Police spokesman Don Aaron said the two injured were taken to a local hospital and are in stable condition. According to Aaron, two school police officers were in the building when the shooting started. They were not in the immediate vicinity of the dining room where the attacker was shooting, but when they got there, the shooting stopped and the young man turned the gun on himself.
Antioch High School has about 2,000 students and is located in the suburbs of Nashville, Tennessee, about 10 miles southeast of the city center.
School representatives urged parents not to pick up their children from school and head straight to the nearby hospital. Students were taken there by school buses.
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The year before last March, a gunman killed six people, including three nine-year-old children, at the private Christian elementary school The Covenant School in Nashville.
Gun attacks on schools are common in the US. At a school in the state of Wisconsin in mid-December, a fifteen-year-old student killed two people, then shot herself.
Last year, according to the K-12 database, US schools recorded the second highest number of shootings since 1966, Reuters reported. Only the year 2023 was worse. Last year and the year before, over 300 were recorded in the USA.
The influential American gun lobby, the NRA, has so far blocked most attempts to tighten the rules for the possession of assault weapons. Old-time Republican President Donald Trump does not hide the fact that he has very good relations with the organization.
They knew that they were afraid of him there. Due to the murderous attack on the gymnasium, the Slovak police chief was dismissed
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