The suspect opened fire inside Antioch High School, southeast of downtown Nashville, the authorities said. The police said there was no longer a threat.

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

A female student was killed, and one other was injured after another student, who turned the gun on himself, opened fire at Nashville's Antioch High School

Two students have been shot in a school shooting in Tennessee on Wednesday. Metropolitan Nashville Police Department confirmed two students were shot by another student. The shooter then sustained a self-inflicted gunshot wound, reported WSMV4. The shooting occurred in the cafeteria, the newspaper reported.

Authorities say one person is dead and two others have been wounded by gunfire at a Nashville high school. Vanderbilt University Medical Center spokesperson John Howser says one person is dead after the shooting at Antioch High School on

Two students were shot in the cafeteria of Antioch High School in Nashville on Wednesday, and the suspected shooter is "no longer a threat," officials said.

Antioch High School in Nashville is on lockdown after shots were fired inside the school, according to Metro Nashville Public Schools.