Antioch, a growing and diverse area of Nashville, has endured other prominent shootings in recent years. A 2017 fatal shooting at Burnette Chapel Church of Christ killed one woman and wounded seven people. And in 2018, a shooter killed four people at a Waffle House.

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.

Police said a male student shot two people at the high school on Wednesday morning before turning the gun on himself.