A shooting on Tuesday at a Dallas High School injured four students. Authorities said they have identified the suspect but not yet made an arrest.
According to the Dallas Fire-Rescue Department, three of the students sustained gunshot wounds, and the fourth suffered a lower-body injury. The Dallas Fire-Rescue Department said that units were dispatched just after 1 pm to Wilmer Hutchins High School and that four male students were transported to hospitals, with injuries ranging in severity from severe to non-life-threatening.
This is becoming too common. Stephanie Elizalde said at a press conference that it shouldn’t be so familiar.
Christina Smith, Assistant Police Chief for the Dallas Independent Schools District, stated at a news conference that she had no information about what caused the shooting. She said that police had identified the suspect but did not provide any other information, such as whether authorities knew the whereabouts of the suspect.
Dallas Fire-Rescue reported that the three people who were shot ranged in age from 15 to 18 years old, while the age of the person who suffered a “musculoskeletal” injury was unknown.
The school district and police provided few details at a news conference that was held several hours following the shooting. This incident drew many police officers and law enforcement agents to the campus of about 1,000 students.
Elizalde: “I’m sure there are many questions, and we won’t have all the answers at this time because some information is inaccurate.”
The authorities said that the other students, their parents, and the school had all been safely reunited. Multiple police vehicles were visible in aerial footage of the high school taken Tuesday afternoon.
Elizalde announced that the school would not be open for the remainder of the week, but counselors would be available.
Smith said that the gun didn’t come into the school during “regular intake time.” She said, “It was not a failure of our staff, of our protocols, or of the machinery that we have.” But she said she could not elaborate on that.
Shauna Williams said that after the shooting, she is now considering homeschooling her two students. In April of last year, a student at the same school was shot in the leg.
She told Dallas’s KDFW television station, “I cannot continue to go through this as a mother.” “I tell you, it is very scary to think of losing your child or your children.”
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott stated in a press release that “our hearts are with the victims of this senseless violence.”