A student opened fire on officers responding to a report of a possible gunman at a Tennessee high school Monday, and police shot back and killed him, authorities said. The shooting wounded an officer and comes as the community reels from off-campus gun violence that has left three other students dead this year.
PICTURED: Tennessee school resource officer who was shot in the leg by Knoxville high school student before being shot dead by cops
Knoxville Police Officer Adam Willson is recovering in hospital after he was shot in the leg during the incident at Austin-East Magnet High School on Monday
Willson is a 20-year police veteran currently working as the resource officer
The gunman student, who has not been identified, was pronounced dead at the scene after being shot by an officer
No one else was injured in the shooting
The deadly incident erupted when police first received reports of a student with a gun and found him holed up in a bathroom
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