Local reaction to Nashville school shooting

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF)-  We are hearing local reaction to Wednesday’s deadly school shooting in Nashville.

Nashville police say 17 year old Solomon Henderson, a student at Antioch High School, opened fire inside of the school’s cafeteria, killing 16 year old Josselin Escalante and injuring another female student.

It is the second deadly school shooting in Nashville within the past two years, the other one being the Covenant School Shooting in March 2023.

That shooting led to the legislation being passed in Tennessee requiring every school to have a designated school resource officer.

Hamilton County School superintendent Dr. Justin Robertson said, “We pay attention to school safety all the time, and our thoughts go out to Nashville all the time, and we’ll continue to make sure that we take the proper steps to keep our kids safe, and ask our community to help us do the same.”

Hamilton County already staffs each public school with a deputy.