The suspected shooter who killed one student at a high school in Nashville on Tuesday has been identified as Solomon Henderson, 17.

Metro Police reveal new details on what happened before and during the deadly shooting at Antioch High School. FOX 17 News sits down with a student witness.

Police responded to a shooting at Antioch High School in Nashville, Tennessee. Police told CBS News the shooting happened in the school cafeteria.

Superintendent for Metro Nashville Public Schools Adrienne Battle said the school uses a weapons detection system called Omnilert.

A 17-year-old boy armed with a pistol, identified by authorities as Solomon Henderson, fired several shots in the cafeteria. A female student, 16-year-old Josselin Corea Escalante, was killed and a boy was grazed on his arm. Henderson then shot himself in the head and was fatally wounded.

Gunfire erupted just after 11 a.m. Wednesday at Antioch High School – about 45 minutes southeast of downtown Nashville – when 17-year-old Solomon Henderson “confronted” the victim before firing

A student shot at least two other students Wednesday at Antioch High School outside Nashville, Tennessee, police said. The shooter then shot himself, according to police.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A shooting in a Nashville high school cafeteria Wednesday left a female student dead and another student wounded, nearly two years after another deadly school shooting in the city that ignited an emotional debate about gun control in Tennessee.

MNPD’s Don Aaron reports that one girl is dead, and the shooter, a 17-year-old boy, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Students and parents described a scene of chaos, confusion and terror during a deadly shooting at Antioch High School.

"Based on the location of the shooter and the position of the weapon, it did not activate the system," a district official told the USA TODAY Network.