Girl fatally shot by student in Tennessee high school cafeteria
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A girl has been shot dead in a high school in the US state of Tennessee by an armed student, who then turned the weapon on himself, police say.
The attacker argued with the victim, 16-year-old Josselin Escalante, in the cafeteria before shooting her with a pistol, police said. The armed student, Solomon Henderson, 17, then took his own life.
A third victim, an unnamed male student, suffered a "graze wound to the arm" and was released after treatment, police said.
The shooting in the Nashville area is under investigation, the Metro Nashville Police Department told the BBC.
The first emergency call reporting gunfire at Antioch High School came in at 11:11 local time (17:11 GMT) on Wednesday, police said.
Local TV news showed tearful parents hugging their children at a reunification site away from the campus.
It was the first US school shooting of the year, according to a database kept by Education Week, and the first such incident under the new Trump administration.
The White House said in a statement: "As details unfold, the White House offers its heartfelt thoughts and prayers to those impacted by this senseless tragedy."