Officers "engaged" an active shooter at the Covenant School, a pre-kindergarten through grade six private school, and the shooter is dead, Nashville police said on Twitter.
There are "multiple patients," the Nashville Fire Department wrote.
The Covenant School is in the city's Green Hills neighborhood, about nine miles southeast of downtown Nashville. The school is located on the campus of Covenant Presbyterian Church. It's next door to a Nashville Fire Department station and less than a mile south of Nashville's largest shopping district.
TVNL Update: Authorities say that there have been six deaths, including the shooter.