Four students were injured in a shooting at Wilmer-Hutchins High School in Dallas on Tuesday, police said.
A suspect in the shooting remains at large, according to Dallas ISD Police Department Assistant Chief of Police Christina Smith.
“The suspect has not been arrested, but we have identified the suspect,” Smith said during a press briefing Tuesday evening. “We have many of our law enforcement partners helping us, and we are working on locating and arresting the suspect at this time.”
Preliminary information indicated that the shooting was student-on-student violence and not an active shooter situation, multiple sources told ABC News.
The four injured students were transferred to area hospitals, according to Smith, who did not provide more details on their conditions.
At least one student was shot in the leg, sources said.
Smith said she did not have information on what led to the shooting, calling it a “very fresh investigation.”
The gun used in the shooting “did not come through during regular intake time,” she said.
“It was not a failure of our staff, of our protocols, of the machinery that we have,” Smith said, though she did not elaborate.
A senior student told Dallas ABC affiliate WFAA that he was in the foyer when, around lunch time, he heard a few gunshots. He said he then saw students running and heard screaming, and he took cover in the band room.
Video shows students evacuating the school as police cars and fire trucks gathered at the scene.
The school has been secured, the Dallas Independent School District said, but people are urged to stay away from the campus.
All high school students have been reunified with their parents and guardians, according to Superintendent Stephanie Elizalde.
There will be no school the rest of the week, and mental health professionals will be made available, she said.
“Today, as we all know, the unthinkable has happened,” Elizalde said during the briefing. “And quite frankly, this is just becoming way too familiar, and it should not be familiar.”
