Suspect in Custody After Shooting at Dallas High School

The shooting occurred nearly a year after a similar incident at the same Dallas high school.

An undercover Texas Highway patrolman arrives to Wilmer-Hutchins High School, where police were responding to a shooting in Dallas, Texas, on April 15, 2025. Julio Cortez/AP Photo

A suspect has been taken into custody, school district officials announced the evening of April 15, in relation to the shooting at Dallas’s Wilmer-Hutchins High School earlier in the day that triggered a campus lockdown.

Police responded quickly to reports of a shooting incident at the school around 1:25 p.m., according to a statement on social media platform X from the Dallas Independent School District (ISD), the public school district serving most of Dallas and several surrounding areas.