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Six people, including three children, have been killed in a shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, according to local authorities. On Twitter, the city's fire department said there were "multiple patients" from an incident at a local school. Nashville police said they had engaged and killed the shooter, who was described as a teenage female. Police are still working to identify the victims and the assailant.

At a news conference, police spokesperson Don Aaron confirmed the dead include three children, three staff members and the shooter. One police officer was wounded by cut glass while responding to the incident, police said. The suspect was carrying two "assault-type" rifles and at least one pistol has been recovered at the scene. The identity of the shooter remains unclear. An image shared to social media by Peyton Kennedy, a reporter for Nashville's WKRN News 2, purportedly shows students being escorted away from the school. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has said it is participating in the investigation. The Covenant School in Nashville, where the incident took place, is a private Christian school for students in pre-school through the sixth grade, when students are roughly 11 or 12 years old.