ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — One pupil was fatally shot and one other injured when a 3rd pupil opened hearth exterior a Dallas-area highschool Monday morning earlier than being arrested on a homicide cost, police mentioned.
The capturing started on a highschool campus within the suburb of Arlington round 6:55 a.m., earlier than many college students arrived for the primary day again to courses after the spring break, in keeping with police and faculty district officers.
Arlington police Chief Al Jones mentioned Monday {that a} male pupil who was shot died at a hospital and a feminine sufferer was receiving medical care after being “grazed” by gunfire, inflicting injures that aren’t life threatening.
One other male pupil was arrested on the scene and charged with capital homicide, Jones mentioned at a day information convention. The police chief declined to establish the suspected shooter as a result of he’s a minor, however mentioned he’s being held at a juvenile detention middle within the space.
The gunman by no means entered the Lamar Excessive College constructing and was taken into custody by responding officers, Jones mentioned, including that the scene was secured inside “minutes.” He mentioned investigators recovered a gun used within the capturing however the shooter’s motive stays unclear.
Arlington Impartial College District spokeswoman Anita Foster mentioned the college went into lockdown throughout the capturing however college buses and different arriving college students had been diverted from the campus earlier than courses had been set to begin.
Police mentioned at 10:40 a.m. that they’d accomplished their search of the college constructing and college students could be launched to their guardians at a “reunification middle” beginning at midday.