A shooter aged 17 has killed himself after fatally wounding a female student in a shooting in Nashville.

Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County spokesman Don Aaron said two others who were injured in the shooting on Wednesday (Thursday AEDT) at Antioch High School were being treated at Vanderbilt University Medical Centre.

Aaron said there were two school resource officers in the building when the shooting happened. They were not in the immediate vicinity of the cafeteria where the shooting took place, and by the time they got down there, the shooting had stopped and the shooter had shot himself, Aaron said.

The school has about 2000 students and is about 16km south-east of downtown Nashville.

School officials asked parents not to go to the high school to pick up their children but to go to a nearby hospital instead. Students were being bused there as they were 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.

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.