Suspect in connection to Wilmer-Hutchins High School shooting in custody

Four students were injured Tuesday in an on-campus shooting where a Dallas ISD student was shot last year, police say

What to Know

• Dallas Fire-Rescue confirms three students were shot, another injured in a shooting at Wilmer-Hutchins High School on Tuesday.
• DFR said the conditions of the injured range from serious to non-life-threatening.
• Officials have not said what led to the outbreak of gunfire.
• Officials have confirmed the shooter is in custody in connection with the shooting.
• A student was shot in the leg in a WHHS classroom in April 2024 after a student was able to bring a gun into the building, bypassing security and metal detectors.
• Follow our live blog for updates.

Four students were injured, including three with gunshot wounds, after a shooting at Wilmer-Hutchins High School in Dallas on Tuesday afternoon, officials say. The school is the same one where a student was injured in a shooting in a classroom last year.

Students were seen evacuating the main school building after the shooting was reported to authorities around 1 p.m.

"I turned around, all I heard was seven gunshots. I grabbed a teacher and ran in the room," said student Patrick Campos. "Running, everybody was running."

Officials with Dallas Fire-Rescue confirmed the injuries and said the patients' ages were 15 to 18 and had injuries that ranged from serious to non-life-threatening.

"Today as we all know, the unthinkable has happened," said DISD Superintendent Stephanie Elizalde. "And quite frankly, this is just becoming way too familiar, and it should not be familiar."

In a brief news conference Tuesday afternoon, Dallas ISD police and district officials said the gunman had been identified but was at large. Hours later, the suspect was arrested and is currently in the Dallas County Jail.

The district said the gun did not enter the school building during the primary intake period when students pass through metal detectors.

DISD officials would not say how the gun made its way into the building, or what happened in the moments before shots were fired.

"We do have the identity of the suspect, but as I mentioned earlier, this is still a very fresh and fluid investigation, so I don’t have any other information regarding what led up to the shooting," said Assistant Chief Christina Smith with DISD Police.

District leaders said classes would be canceled at the high school through the rest of the week, and counselors would be made available to anyone struggling after the shooting.

In April 2024, a student was injured after being shot in the leg while inside a classroom at Wilmer-Hutchins High School. Following that incident, students held a protest as they demanded answers about how someone was able to bring a gun inside with security and metal detectors at the doors. District officials later discovered there was a broken metal detector at the school.

NBC 5's David Goins, Maria Guerrero, Candace Sweat, Alicia Barrera, Wayne Carter, Dominga Gutierrez, Lucy Ladis, Elvira Sakmari and Frank Heinz contributed to this report.