The teenager who fatally shot a student at a high school in Nashville, Tennessee, livestreamed part of the incident, according to the platform he used, and he was influenced by internet content that authorities described Thursday as “harmful and objectionable.”
The 17-year-old gunman, who wounded a second student before he died by suicide, fired 10 shots from a 9 mm pistol 17 seconds after he entered the cafeteria at Antioch High School, southeast of downtown Nashville, on Wednesday, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department said in a statement Thursday.
The shooter’s mother dropped him off, the department said, correcting the police chief’s earlier comment that he took the bus to school. Before he opened fire, he went to a nearby bathroom and posted social media photos, police said.
The attack was partially livestreamed on the streaming platform Kick, the company said in a statement Thursday. The account that posted the video…
