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According to an arrest warrant affidavit, five students were shot at Wilmer-Hutchins High School on Tuesday.DFR said the conditions of the injured range from serious to non-life-threatening and the victims ranged in age from 15 to 18 years old.Officials have not said what led to the outbreak of gunfire.Officials have confirmed a suspect is in custody. The suspect has been identified as 17-year-old Tracy Denard Haynes Jr.The affidavit says school surveillance video showed an unidentified student let Haynes in an unsecured door at 1:03 p.m., and moments later, he began firing indiscriminately at five students.In April 2024, a student was shot in the leg in a WHHS classroom after a student was able to bring a gun into the building, bypassing security and metal detectors.Five students were injured in a shooting inside 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.
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.
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 surrendered and was arrested. The suspect, identified by police as 17-year-old Tracy Denard Haynes Jr., is currently in the Dallas County Jail held on $600,000 bond. It’s unclear if Haynes has obtained an attorney.
“Today as we all know, the unthinkable has happened,” said Dallas ISD Superintendent Stephanie Elizalde. “And quite frankly, this is just becoming way too familiar, and it should not be familiar.”
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.
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