Multiple radical were changeable astatine Timberview High School successful Arlington.

Multiple radical were changeable astatine Timberview High School successful Arlington. (KSAT)

ARLINGTON, Texas – An 18-year-old opened occurrence wrong a Dallas-area precocious school, leaving 4 radical injured earlier fleeing, authorities said Wednesday.

The shooting happened astatine Timberview High School successful Arlington, which is portion of the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area.

Authorities said astatine a quality league that the shooting happened aft a combat broke retired successful the school.

Police were searching for the suspected shooter, whom they identified arsenic Timothy George Simpkins. They said helium mightiness beryllium driving a 2018 Silver Dodge Charger with licence sheet PFY-6260.

Arlington Assistant Police Chief Kevin Kolbye said 2 of the 4 injured radical were shot. Three of the 4 were taken to hospitals and the different idiosyncratic refused treatment.

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This communicative was corrected to bespeak that the suspect's past sanction is Simpkins, not Simpkin.

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A Dallas-area schoolhouse territory said Wednesday that instrumentality enforcement was responding to reports of an “active shooter situation” astatine a precocious school.

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The Mansfield Independent School District said successful a quality merchandise that Timberview High School was connected lockdown Wednesday morning. The schoolhouse is successful Arlington, which is portion of the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area.

An Arlington Police Department spokeswoman said officers responded to a shooting astatine the school, but that she couldn't corroborate whether determination were immoderate injuries. The constabulary section said on Twitter that officers were doing a “methodical search” and were moving intimately with different instrumentality enforcement agencies.

A reunification halfway was acceptable up for students and their families, constabulary said.

The territory said that students and unit were locked successful the classrooms oregon offices.

Timberview serves astir 1,900 students successful ninth done 12th grades. The sprawling analyzable opened successful 2004.

Live TV footage showed a enactment of ambulances and occurrence section vehicles staged extracurricular the school, but nary radical being treated for injuries could beryllium seen.

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The study came conscionable days aft a shooting astatine a Houston charter schoolhouse that injured an administrator. Texas' deadliest schoolhouse shooting occurred successful May of 2018 erstwhile a then-17-year-old equipped with a shotgun and a pistol opened occurrence astatine Santa Fe High School adjacent Houston, sidesplitting 10 people, astir of whom were students.

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