Police kill student who fired at them at Tennessee high school, authorities say

Officer wounded after confrontation in Knoxville high school bathroom

A student at a Tennessee high school has been shot and killed by police after opening fire on officers responding to reports of a gunman on campus, authorities said on Monday.

David B Rausch, the director of the Tennessee bureau of investigation, said at a news conference that police found the student in a bathroom at Austin-East magnet high school in Knoxville, a city about 180 miles (290km) east of Nashville. They ordered him out, but he wouldn't comply, and that is when he reportedly opened fire, Rausch said. Police fired back.