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Police were investigating a reported shooting Tuesday afternoon at Wilmer-Hutchins High School in Dallas, a department spokeswoman confirmed to The Dallas Morning News.
Officers were dispatched about 1 p.m. to the school in the 5500 block of Langdon Road. A police call log showed more than 20 units at the scene. It was not immediately clear if anyone was injured.
Dallas ISD officials confirmed that there was a “shooting incident” at the school, and said reunification plans would be shared shortly.
“Safety protocols have been implemented, and we are asking everyone to refrain from coming to campus,” they wrote on X.
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Jason Evans, a Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesman, said emergency crews were responding to the school and that he was on his way to the scene.
He said he would provide additional details later. Sgt. Chris Williamson, a Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman, said state troopers were also responding and more information would be released later.
Students report several shots, screaming
Adonta Jackson, a senior at Wilmer-Hutchins, said he heard about eight gunshots and screaming about 1 p.m. He then said students began running out of the school.
Lashunda Edwards, Jackson’s mother, said she got a call from a friend that there was a shooting at the school. She said she dropped everything and left work immediately to get to the school.
“I just want my child to be safe,” she said. “Anybody’s kid, really.”
“I just hope and pray everyone is okay,” Jackson said.
Abby Falcon, a sophomore at Wilmer-Hutchins, said she was in history class when she heard gunshots. She said the students in her class rushed to close the door and huddled in the corner as other students ran in the halls outside her classroom.
She said she then called her mom, who came and picked her up.
“The first thought in my mind was that this was gonna be my last day here,” Falcon said.
‘Another shooting’
Danielle Curtis’ daughter was scrolling on her phone Tuesday afternoon when she turned to her mother and said: “Oh no, it’s another shooting. A shooting at Hutch again.”
It transported Curtis back to a year ago. On April 12, 2024, her daughter was at Wilmer-Hutchins High when one student shot another in a classroom.
The district would later blame both human error and systems failure for why a teenager was able to bring a gun into the high school. The Monday after the 2024 incident, which occurred in a classroom, students staged a walkout and said they did not feel safe at school. Multiple students said at the time that the school’s metal detectors were not regularly used and the school did not consistently enforce its clear bag policies, both points of frustration.
Dallas ISD leaders said at the time they would increase personnel during arrival and dismissal, retrain staff on backpack searches and metal detectors, as well as revamp schedules to make more people available to monitor students.
Curtis said she didn’t feel the district took campus safety seriously enough after the incident. She wasn’t surprised to learn it happened again.
“I pray for the families that are affected, and I hope and pray no one is seriously injured,” she said. “But here we are again. Same time of year, same thing.”
Curtis pulled her daughter out of DISD after last year’s shooting. The girl still has friends on campus and is terrified for their safety.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
Staff writers Chase Rogers, Zacharia Washington and Julia James contributed to this report.
