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City council approves a new Tampa Bay Rays ballpark — and the existing site's transformation

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City council approves a new Tampa Bay Rays ballpark — and the existing site's transformation

2024-07-19 03:54 Last Updated At:04:02

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The Tampa Bay Rays are on track to get a long-sought new ballpark following a city council vote Thursday on a major redevelopment project that also guarantees the team will stay where it is for at least 30 years.

The ballpark is part of a broader $6.5 billion project that supporters say would transform an 86-acre (34-hectare) tract in the city's downtown, with plans in the coming years for a Black history museum, affordable housing, a hotel, green space, entertainment venues, and office and retail space. There's the promise of thousands of jobs as well.

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Tampa Bay Rays owner Stuart Sternberg speaks during a city council meeting to decide the fate of the Rays stadium plan, Thursday, July 18, 2024 in St. Petersburg, Fla.. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Tampa Bay Rays owner Stuart Sternberg speaks during a city council meeting to decide the fate of the Rays stadium plan, Thursday, July 18, 2024 in St. Petersburg, Fla.. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

A packed St. Petersburg City council chambers is seen as the council makes crucial votes on the Tampa Bay Rays stadium plan, Thursday, July 18, 2024 in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd /Tampa Bay Times via AP)

A packed St. Petersburg City council chambers is seen as the council makes crucial votes on the Tampa Bay Rays stadium plan, Thursday, July 18, 2024 in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd /Tampa Bay Times via AP)

St. Petersburg city council members, from left, Richie Floyd, John Muhammad, and Copley Gerdes listen to a speaker during a council meeting on the Tampa Bay Rays stadium plan, Thursday, July 18, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

St. Petersburg city council members, from left, Richie Floyd, John Muhammad, and Copley Gerdes listen to a speaker during a council meeting on the Tampa Bay Rays stadium plan, Thursday, July 18, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Tampa Bay Rays owner Stuart Sternberg, right, speaks with Rays president Brian Auld as the council makes crucial votes on the Tampa Bay Rays stadium plan, Thursday, July 18, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Tampa Bay Rays owner Stuart Sternberg, right, speaks with Rays president Brian Auld as the council makes crucial votes on the Tampa Bay Rays stadium plan, Thursday, July 18, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Ken Welch, the Mayor of St. Petersburg, listens during a city council meeting which will decide the fate of the Rays stadium plan Thursday, July 18, 2024 in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Ken Welch, the Mayor of St. Petersburg, listens during a city council meeting which will decide the fate of the Rays stadium plan Thursday, July 18, 2024 in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Historian and former gas plant resident Gwen Reese, left, speaks as former residents of the gas plant district stand behind her during a City of St. Petersburg city council meeting to decide the fate of the Rays stadium plan Thursday, July 18, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Historian and former gas plant resident Gwen Reese, left, speaks as former residents of the gas plant district stand behind her during a City of St. Petersburg city council meeting to decide the fate of the Rays stadium plan Thursday, July 18, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

St. Petersburg city council members listen as Tampa Bay Rays owner Stuart Sternberg speaks during a city council meeting to decide the fate of the Rays stadium plan, Thursday, July 18, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

St. Petersburg city council members listen as Tampa Bay Rays owner Stuart Sternberg speaks during a city council meeting to decide the fate of the Rays stadium plan, Thursday, July 18, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Tampa Bay Rays owner Stuart Sternberg, left, Hines Senior Managing Director Michael Harrison, Rays team president Matt Silverman and Rays President Brian Auld look on as speakers address the audience during a Rays press conference in the Baldwin Group Club at Tropicana Field, Wednesday, July 17, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Tampa Bay Rays owner Stuart Sternberg, left, Hines Senior Managing Director Michael Harrison, Rays team president Matt Silverman and Rays President Brian Auld look on as speakers address the audience during a Rays press conference in the Baldwin Group Club at Tropicana Field, Wednesday, July 17, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Tampa Bay Rays President Brian Auld, second from right, and Rays team president Matt Silverman address the audience during a Rays press conference in the Baldwin Group Club at Tropicana Field, Wednesday, July 17, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Tampa Bay Rays President Brian Auld, second from right, and Rays team president Matt Silverman address the audience during a Rays press conference in the Baldwin Group Club at Tropicana Field, Wednesday, July 17, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Tampa Bay Rays president Brian Auld, center, holds up a book compiled of the letters written in support of the development plan by the Rays and their development partner Hines, while on stage along with Rays team president Matt Silverman as they address the audience during a Rays press conference in the Baldwin Group Club at Tropicana Field, Wednesday, July 17, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Tampa Bay Rays president Brian Auld, center, holds up a book compiled of the letters written in support of the development plan by the Rays and their development partner Hines, while on stage along with Rays team president Matt Silverman as they address the audience during a Rays press conference in the Baldwin Group Club at Tropicana Field, Wednesday, July 17, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Tampa Bay Rays owner Stuart Sternberg addresses the audience during a Rays press conference in the Baldwin Group Club at Tropicana Field , Wednesday, July 17, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Tampa Bay Rays owner Stuart Sternberg addresses the audience during a Rays press conference in the Baldwin Group Club at Tropicana Field , Wednesday, July 17, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Terri Lipsey Scott, director of St. Pete's Woodson Museum, sits in the audience as Tampa Bay Rays owner Stuart Sternberg addresses the audience during a Rays press conference in the Baldwin Group Club at Tropicana Field, Wednesday, July 17, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Terri Lipsey Scott, director of St. Pete's Woodson Museum, sits in the audience as Tampa Bay Rays owner Stuart Sternberg addresses the audience during a Rays press conference in the Baldwin Group Club at Tropicana Field, Wednesday, July 17, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Historian and former gas plant resident Gwen Reese addresses the audience during a Tampa Bay Rays press conference in the Baldwin Group Club at Tropicana Field, Wednesday, July 17, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Historian and former gas plant resident Gwen Reese addresses the audience during a Tampa Bay Rays press conference in the Baldwin Group Club at Tropicana Field, Wednesday, July 17, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Tampa Bay Rays owner Stuart Sternberg addresses the audience during a Rays press conference in the Baldwin Group Club at Tropicana Field , Wednesday, July 17, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Tampa Bay Rays owner Stuart Sternberg addresses the audience during a Rays press conference in the Baldwin Group Club at Tropicana Field , Wednesday, July 17, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

The site, where the Rays' domed, tilted Tropicana Field and its expansive parking lots now sit, was once a thriving Black community displaced by construction of the ballpark and an interstate highway. A priority for St. Petersburg Mayor Ken Welch is to right some of those past wrongs in what is known as the Historic Gas Plant District.

“This is a day that has been more than 40 years in the making," said Welch, the city's first Black mayor with family ties to the old neighborhood. “It is a major win for our city.”

The St. Petersburg City Council voted 5-3 for the plan, which also must be approved by the Pinellas County Commission. A county vote is set for later this month.

“This has far-reaching implications far beyond the baseball field,” said council member Ed Montanari.

The linchpin of the project is the planned $1.3 billion ballpark with 30,000 seats and a fixed roof, scheduled to open for the 2028 season. That will cap years of uncertainty about the Rays’ future, including possible moves across the bay to Tampa, or to Nashville, Tennessee, or even to split home games between St. Petersburg and Montreal, an idea MLB rejected.

Stu Sternberg, the Rays' principal owner, said final approval of the project would settle the question of the team's future location.

“It’s always been our intention and my intention to have the team remain in Tampa Bay, specifically St. Petersburg,” Sternberg said before the vote. “We have never considered taking the team elsewhere, out of the region.”

The Rays typically draw among the lowest attendance in MLB, even though the team has made the playoffs five years in a row. This year, at this week's All-Star break, the Rays have a 48-48 record, placing them fourth in the American League East division.

The financing plan calls for the city to spend about $417.5 million, including $287.5 million for the ballpark itself and $130 million in infrastructure for the larger redevelopment project that would include such things as sewage, traffic signals and roads. The city envisions no new or increased taxes.

Pinellas County, meanwhile, would spend about $312.5 million for its share of the ballpark costs. Officials say the county money will come from a bed tax largely funded by visitors that can be spent only on tourist-related and economic development expenses. The county commission is tentatively set to vote on the plan July 30.

The rest of the project would mainly be funded by a partnership between the Rays and the Houston-based Hines global development company. It will take decades to complete.

The ballpark plan is part of a wave of construction or renovation projects at sports venues across the country, including the Milwaukee Brewers, Buffalo Bills, Tennessee Titans, Jacksonville Jaguars and the Oakland Athletics, who are planning to relocate to Las Vegas. Like the Rays proposal, all of the projects come with millions of dollars in public funding that usually draws opposition.

Although the city's business and political leadership is mostly behind the deal, there are detractors. Council member Richie Floyd said there are many more ways the ballpark money could be spent to meet numerous community needs.

“It still represents one of the largest stadium subsidies in MLB history. That's the core of my concern,” Floyd said.

A citizen group called “No Home Run” and other organizations opposed the deal, with the conservative/libertarian Americans for Prosperity contending the track record for other publicly financed sports stadiums is not encouraging.

“The economic benefits promised by proponents of publicly funded sports stadiums fail to materialize time and time again," said Skylar Zander, the group's state director. “Studies have consistently shown that the return on investment for such projects is questionable at best, with most of the economic gains flowing to private interests rather than the general public.”

Still, the project seems to have momentum on its side. For former residents and descendants of the Gas Plant District neighborhood, it can't come soon enough.

“All over this country our history is erased. That will not happen here,” said Gwendolyn Reese, president of the African American Heritage Association of St. Petersburg. “Our voices will be heard. And not just heard, but valued.”

Tampa Bay Rays owner Stuart Sternberg speaks during a city council meeting to decide the fate of the Rays stadium plan, Thursday, July 18, 2024 in St. Petersburg, Fla.. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Tampa Bay Rays owner Stuart Sternberg speaks during a city council meeting to decide the fate of the Rays stadium plan, Thursday, July 18, 2024 in St. Petersburg, Fla.. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

A packed St. Petersburg City council chambers is seen as the council makes crucial votes on the Tampa Bay Rays stadium plan, Thursday, July 18, 2024 in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd /Tampa Bay Times via AP)

A packed St. Petersburg City council chambers is seen as the council makes crucial votes on the Tampa Bay Rays stadium plan, Thursday, July 18, 2024 in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd /Tampa Bay Times via AP)

St. Petersburg city council members, from left, Richie Floyd, John Muhammad, and Copley Gerdes listen to a speaker during a council meeting on the Tampa Bay Rays stadium plan, Thursday, July 18, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

St. Petersburg city council members, from left, Richie Floyd, John Muhammad, and Copley Gerdes listen to a speaker during a council meeting on the Tampa Bay Rays stadium plan, Thursday, July 18, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Tampa Bay Rays owner Stuart Sternberg, right, speaks with Rays president Brian Auld as the council makes crucial votes on the Tampa Bay Rays stadium plan, Thursday, July 18, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Tampa Bay Rays owner Stuart Sternberg, right, speaks with Rays president Brian Auld as the council makes crucial votes on the Tampa Bay Rays stadium plan, Thursday, July 18, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Ken Welch, the Mayor of St. Petersburg, listens during a city council meeting which will decide the fate of the Rays stadium plan Thursday, July 18, 2024 in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Ken Welch, the Mayor of St. Petersburg, listens during a city council meeting which will decide the fate of the Rays stadium plan Thursday, July 18, 2024 in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Historian and former gas plant resident Gwen Reese, left, speaks as former residents of the gas plant district stand behind her during a City of St. Petersburg city council meeting to decide the fate of the Rays stadium plan Thursday, July 18, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Historian and former gas plant resident Gwen Reese, left, speaks as former residents of the gas plant district stand behind her during a City of St. Petersburg city council meeting to decide the fate of the Rays stadium plan Thursday, July 18, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

St. Petersburg city council members listen as Tampa Bay Rays owner Stuart Sternberg speaks during a city council meeting to decide the fate of the Rays stadium plan, Thursday, July 18, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

St. Petersburg city council members listen as Tampa Bay Rays owner Stuart Sternberg speaks during a city council meeting to decide the fate of the Rays stadium plan, Thursday, July 18, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Tampa Bay Rays owner Stuart Sternberg, left, Hines Senior Managing Director Michael Harrison, Rays team president Matt Silverman and Rays President Brian Auld look on as speakers address the audience during a Rays press conference in the Baldwin Group Club at Tropicana Field, Wednesday, July 17, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Tampa Bay Rays owner Stuart Sternberg, left, Hines Senior Managing Director Michael Harrison, Rays team president Matt Silverman and Rays President Brian Auld look on as speakers address the audience during a Rays press conference in the Baldwin Group Club at Tropicana Field, Wednesday, July 17, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Tampa Bay Rays President Brian Auld, second from right, and Rays team president Matt Silverman address the audience during a Rays press conference in the Baldwin Group Club at Tropicana Field, Wednesday, July 17, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Tampa Bay Rays President Brian Auld, second from right, and Rays team president Matt Silverman address the audience during a Rays press conference in the Baldwin Group Club at Tropicana Field, Wednesday, July 17, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Tampa Bay Rays president Brian Auld, center, holds up a book compiled of the letters written in support of the development plan by the Rays and their development partner Hines, while on stage along with Rays team president Matt Silverman as they address the audience during a Rays press conference in the Baldwin Group Club at Tropicana Field, Wednesday, July 17, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Tampa Bay Rays president Brian Auld, center, holds up a book compiled of the letters written in support of the development plan by the Rays and their development partner Hines, while on stage along with Rays team president Matt Silverman as they address the audience during a Rays press conference in the Baldwin Group Club at Tropicana Field, Wednesday, July 17, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Tampa Bay Rays owner Stuart Sternberg addresses the audience during a Rays press conference in the Baldwin Group Club at Tropicana Field , Wednesday, July 17, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Tampa Bay Rays owner Stuart Sternberg addresses the audience during a Rays press conference in the Baldwin Group Club at Tropicana Field , Wednesday, July 17, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Terri Lipsey Scott, director of St. Pete's Woodson Museum, sits in the audience as Tampa Bay Rays owner Stuart Sternberg addresses the audience during a Rays press conference in the Baldwin Group Club at Tropicana Field, Wednesday, July 17, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Terri Lipsey Scott, director of St. Pete's Woodson Museum, sits in the audience as Tampa Bay Rays owner Stuart Sternberg addresses the audience during a Rays press conference in the Baldwin Group Club at Tropicana Field, Wednesday, July 17, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Historian and former gas plant resident Gwen Reese addresses the audience during a Tampa Bay Rays press conference in the Baldwin Group Club at Tropicana Field, Wednesday, July 17, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Historian and former gas plant resident Gwen Reese addresses the audience during a Tampa Bay Rays press conference in the Baldwin Group Club at Tropicana Field, Wednesday, July 17, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Tampa Bay Rays owner Stuart Sternberg addresses the audience during a Rays press conference in the Baldwin Group Club at Tropicana Field , Wednesday, July 17, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Tampa Bay Rays owner Stuart Sternberg addresses the audience during a Rays press conference in the Baldwin Group Club at Tropicana Field , Wednesday, July 17, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A female student was killed and another student was wounded Wednesday in a shooting in a Nashville high school cafeteria, police said.

The 17-year-old shooter, who was also a student at Antioch High School, later shot and killed himself with a handgun, Metro Nashville Police spokesperson Don Aaron said during a news conference. Police identified him as Solomon Henderson.

Police Chief John Drake said the shooter “confronted” a 16-year-old female student in the cafeteria and opened fire, killing her. Police identified her as Josselin Corea Escalante. Drake said police are looking into a motive and whether the students who were shot were targeted.

The male student who was wounded suffered a graze, and was treated and released from the hospital, Drake said. Another student was taken to a hospital for treatment of a facial injury that happened during a fall, Aaron said.

There were two school resource officers in the building when the shooting happened around 11 a.m. CDT, Aaron said. They were not in the immediate vicinity of the cafeteria and by the time they got down there the shooting was over and the gunman had killed himself, Aaron said.

The school has about 2,000 students and is located in Antioch, a neighborhood about 10 miles (16 kilometers) southeast of downtown Nashville.

At a family safety center close to a hospital, officials were helping shocked parents to reunite with their children.

Dajuan Bernard was waiting at a Mapco service station to reunite with his son, a 10th grader, who was being held in the auditorium with other students on Wednesday afternoon. He first heard of the shooting from his son who “was a little startled,” Bernard said. His son was upstairs from the cafeteria but said he heard the gunfire.

“He was OK and let me know that everything was OK,” Bernard said.

“This world is so crazy, it could happen anywhere," he said. "We’ve just got to protect the kids, and raise the kids right to prevent them from even doing this. That’s the hardest part.”

Fonda Abner, whose granddaughter is a student at the school, said Antioch High does not have metal detectors that would alert officials to the presence of a gun. She said her granddaughter had called her a couple of times but that she only heard commotion and thought it was a pocket dial. They spoke briefly before being cut off.

“It’s nerve-wracking waiting out here,” Abner said.

Adrienne Battle, superintendent of Nashville schools, said public schools have implemented a “range of safety measures," including partnerships with police for school resource officers, security cameras with weapon-detection software, shatter-resistant film for glass, and security vestibules that are a barrier between outside visitors and the main entrance.

“Unfortunately, these measures were not enough to stop this tragedy,” Battle said.

She noted that there are questions about whether stationary metal detectors should be considered.

“While past research has shown they have had limitations and unintended consequences, we will continue to explore emerging technologies and strategies to strengthen school safety,” Battle said.

Wednesday’s school shooting comes nearly two years after a shooter opened fire at a separate Nashville private elementary school and killed six people, including three children.

The tragedy prompted a monthslong effort among hundreds of community organizers, families, protesters and many more pleading with lawmakers to consider passing gun control measures in response to the shooting.

However, in a Republican-dominant state, GOP lawmakers refused to do so. With the Republican supermajority intact after November’s election, it’s unlikely attitudes have changed enough to consider any meaningful bills that would address gun control.

Instead, lawmakers have been more open to adding more security to schools — including passing a bill last year that would allow some teachers and staff to carry concealed handguns on public school grounds, and bar parents and other teachers from knowing who was armed.

Antioch has endured other prominent shootings in recent years. A 2017 fatal shooting at Burnette Chapel Church of Christ killed one woman and wounded seven people. And in 2018, a shooter killed four people at a Waffle House.

Associated Press writers Kimberlee Kruesi in Nashville and Adrian Sainz in Memphis, Tennessee, contributed.

Metro Nashville Police Chief John Drake talks to media following a shooting at Antioch High School in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Metro Nashville Police Chief John Drake talks to media following a shooting at Antioch High School in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

School buses arrive at a unification site following a shooting at the Antioch High School in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

School buses arrive at a unification site following a shooting at the Antioch High School in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Students wait to get off a bus at a unification site following a shooting at the Antioch High School in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Students wait to get off a bus at a unification site following a shooting at the Antioch High School in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

A students and a family member walk from the Antioch High School after a shooting in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

A students and a family member walk from the Antioch High School after a shooting in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

People wait as school buses arrive at a unification site following a shooting at the Antioch High School in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

People wait as school buses arrive at a unification site following a shooting at the Antioch High School in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

School buses arrive at a unification site following a shooting at the Antioch High School in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

School buses arrive at a unification site following a shooting at the Antioch High School in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Families wait as school buses arrive at a unification site following a shooting at the Antioch High School in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Families wait as school buses arrive at a unification site following a shooting at the Antioch High School in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

An ambulance leaves the Antioch High School following a shooting in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

An ambulance leaves the Antioch High School following a shooting in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

An ambulance leaves the Antioch High School following a shooting in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

An ambulance leaves the Antioch High School following a shooting in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Families wait a school buses arrive at a unification site following a shooting at the Antioch High School in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Families wait a school buses arrive at a unification site following a shooting at the Antioch High School in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Dasia Pleitez prays as she waits for her daughter at a unification site following a shooting at the Antioch High School in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Dasia Pleitez prays as she waits for her daughter at a unification site following a shooting at the Antioch High School in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

School bus arrives at a unification site following a shooting at at Antioch High School in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

School bus arrives at a unification site following a shooting at at Antioch High School in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

School buses arrive at a unification site following a shooting at Antioch High School in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

School buses arrive at a unification site following a shooting at Antioch High School in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

A school bus arrives at a unification site following a shooting at the Antioch High School in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

A school bus arrives at a unification site following a shooting at the Antioch High School in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

People wait as school buses arrive at a unification site following a shooting at the Antioch High School in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

People wait as school buses arrive at a unification site following a shooting at the Antioch High School in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

An ambulance leaves the Antioch High School following a shooting in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

An ambulance leaves the Antioch High School following a shooting in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

A school bus arrives at a unification site following a shooting at the Antioch High School in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

A school bus arrives at a unification site following a shooting at the Antioch High School in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

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