"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.

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.

WSMV4 Investigates learned that police were not notified by the Omnilert system as it failed to detect the weapon used in the cafeteria.

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 ).

Travis Keith Garland (credit: Metropolitan Nashville Police Department ) Other staff members prevented Garland from continuing further, police said, until a security guard arrived. Garland ...

Two people were shot before the shooter turned the gun on themselves at Antioch High School in Nashville, Wednesday, according to officials.

Antioch High School shooter Solomon Henderson skillfully avoided an artificial intelligence weapons detection system in the moments before he opened fire.