Student accused in Dallas school shooting walked toward group in hall
and opened fire, injuring 4
[April 17, 2025]
By JAMIE STENGLE
DALLAS (AP) — The student accused of injuring four in a shooting at a
Dallas high school was let into the building through an unsecured door
and then walked down a hallway toward a group of students, opening fire
on them and then appearing to take a point-blank shot at one, according
to an arrest warrant released Wednesday.
The 17-year-old suspect was being held in Dallas County jail on
Wednesday on a charge of aggravated assault mass shooting. He was taken
into custody several hours after the shooting, which happened just after
1 p.m. on Tuesday at Wilmer-Hutchins High School.
Four male students were injured in the shooting and taken to hospitals,
according to authorities. By Wednesday, two had been discharged and two
remained hospitalized for observation but were expected to recover, the
Dallas Fire-Recue Department said.
Three of those injured were between the ages of 15 to 18 and were shot,
according to Dallas Fire-Rescue. A fourth person whose age was unknown
had an injury that Dallas Fire-Rescue said could only be identified as a
“musculoskeletal injury” to the lower body.
Dallas Fire-Rescue said Wednesday that a fifth person — a 14-year-old
female — was later taken to the hospital for anxiety-related symptoms.
She had not been shot.
The shooting drew a large number of police and other law enforcement
agents to the roughly 1,000-student campus.
School surveillance camera footage showed that an unidentified student
let the suspect in through an unsecured door prior to the shooting,
according to the arrest warrant. The arrest warrant said that after
spotting the group of students in the hallway, he displayed a firearm
and began firing “indiscriminately” before approaching a student who was
not able to run and walking toward that student and appearing to take a
point-blank shot.
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Dallas ISD Superintendent Stephanie Elizalde, right, speaks
alongside Dallas ISD assistant police chief Christina Smith during a
news conference after a shooting at Wilmer-Hutchins High School,
Tuesday, April 15, 2025, in Dallas. (Elías Valverde II/The Dallas
Morning News via AP)
Christina Smith, assistant police chief for the Dallas Independent
School District, said during a Tuesday news conference that she did
not have any information on what led to the shooting.
Smith said 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.
Dallas school district officials did not immediately respond to an
email or call from The Associated Press seeking additional
information on Wednesday.
Stephanie Elizalde, the school district's superintendent, said at
the Tuesday news conference that there would be no school at the
high school for the rest of the week. But she added that counselors
would be available to students.
The suspect's bond was set at $600,000. Jail records did not list an
attorney for him.
At the same school last April, one student shot another in the leg.
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