A pupil opened hearth at a Dallas-area faculty Monday morning, killing one pupil and injuring one other earlier than being arrested on a capital homicide cost, police mentioned.

The taking pictures started on a highschool campus within the suburb of Arlington round 6:55am, earlier than many college students arrived for the primary day again to courses after the spring break, in keeping with police and college 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 shrapnel, inflicting injures that are not life threatening. He declined to provide their ages or grades.

Another 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 heart within the space.

The gunman ran from the scene with out ever coming into the Lamar High School constructing and was taken into custody by responding officers “within minutes,” Jones mentioned. He mentioned investigators recovered a gun used within the taking pictures however the shooter’s motive and the place he bought the weapon stay unclear.

Jones mentioned the cops usually stationed on the faculty weren’t there in the course of the taking pictures, which started shortly earlier than the officers have been set to begin obligation.

Arlington Independent School District spokeswoman Anita Foster mentioned the college went into lockdown in the course of the taking pictures however faculty buses and different arriving college students have been diverted from the campus earlier than courses have been set to start. Police mentioned they accomplished their search of the college at 10:40 a.m.

School workers started reuniting college students who’d been sheltering contained in the constructing with their mother and father or guardians round 11 a.m., in keeping with Superintendent Marcelo Cavazos. He mentioned there can be no courses Tuesday and counselors can be obtainable to college students and workers on Wednesday.

In Texas, individuals convicted of capital homicide will be sentenced to loss of life. Prosecutors make the last word resolution about what costs to pursue in a case, and people aren’t at all times the identical as the costs introduced upon arrest.