"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.
Following Wednesday's deadly shooting inside Antioch High School, questions have been raised over security measures taken inside Metro Nashville Public Schools.
Law enforcement officials seeking a motive for a shooting at Nashville’s Antioch High School on Wednesday morning are examining alarming social media posts and writings tied to a teenager police say shot and killed a 16-year-old girl.
The technology system meant to prevent school shootings failed to detect the Antioch High School shooter's gun, an official confirms.
The suspected shooter who killed one student at a high school in Nashville on Tuesday has been identified as Solomon Henderson, 17.
Nashville police and schools are monitoring social media discussion and concerns Thursday as people speculate if additional schools could be targeted after a 17-year-old student opened fire Wednesday at Antioch High School, killing himself and a 16-year-old girl while injuring another, officials said.
Police are on the scene at Antioch High School near Nashville after shots were fired in the building on Wednesday.
Authorities are examining “very concerning online writings and social media posts” connected to the shooter who killed a female student and wounded another student in a Nashville high school cafeteria.
A social media account connected to the Nashville high school shooting suspect may have been in contact with the suspected Wisconsin school shooter's account.
Analysts with the ADL Center on Extremism "have located a manifesto and social media accounts believed to belong to the shooter, where he shared a range of incel, accelerationist, white supremacist, antisemitic & anti-Black content," the organization wrote in a Wednesday post on X (formerly Twitter ).
The chilling final posts of a teenage shooter who went on a deadly rampage at his school have been revealed. The small town of Antioch, just outside of Nashville, Tennessee, was rocked yesterday after a 17-year-old student went on a terrifying shooting spree at his high school.
Travis Keith Garland (credit: Metropolitan Nashville Police Department ) Other staff members prevented Garland from continuing further, police said, until a security guard arrived. Garland ...