A sus­pect in a shoot­ing at a Dal­las high school that wound­ed four stu­dents and drew a heavy po­lice re­sponse to the cam­pus has been tak­en in­to cus­tody, school dis­trict of­fi­cials an­nounced Tues­day night.

Three of the stu­dents were in­jured by gun­fire and the fourth was in­jured in their low­er body, ac­cord­ing to the Dal­las Fire-Res­cue De­part­ment. The de­part­ment said units were dis­patched to Wilmer-Hutchins High School just af­ter 1 p.m. and that the four stu­dents, all of whom are male, were tak­en to hos­pi­tals with in­juries rang­ing from se­ri­ous to not life-threat­en­ing.

“Quite frankly, this is just be­com­ing way too fa­mil­iar. And it should not be fa­mil­iar,” Stephanie Elizalde, su­per­in­ten­dent of the Dal­las In­de­pen­dent School Dis­trict, said at a news con­fer­ence.

The school dis­trict said in a state­ment Tues­day night that a sus­pect was ap­pre­hend­ed with­in hours of the shoot­ing, but didn’t pro­vide de­tails about the per­son or say whether they had been ar­rest­ed.

Christi­na Smith, as­sis­tant po­lice chief for the Dal­las In­de­pen­dent School Dis­trict, said at the ear­li­er news con­fer­ence that the in­ves­ti­ga­tion was flu­id and she did not have any in­for­ma­tion on what led to the shoot­ing.

The three who were shot were be­tween the ages of 15 and 18, while the age of a per­son with a “mus­cu­loskele­tal in­jury” was not known, Dal­las Fire-Res­cue said.

School dis­trict of­fi­cials and po­lice gave few de­tails dur­ing the news con­fer­ence held sev­er­al hours af­ter the shoot­ing, which drew a large num­ber of po­lice and oth­er law en­force­ment agents to the rough­ly 1,000-stu­dent cam­pus.

“I know that there are many ques­tions and we’re not go­ing to have all of the an­swers right now be­cause some of the in­for­ma­tion will be in­ac­cu­rate,” Elizalde said.

Au­thor­i­ties said oth­er stu­dents and their par­ents had been safe­ly re­unit­ed af­ter the stu­dents had evac­u­at­ed ear­li­er in the day from the cam­pus. Aer­i­al tele­vi­sion footage tak­en above the high school Tues­day af­ter­noon showed mul­ti­ple po­lice ve­hi­cles throng­ing the com­plex.

Elizalde said that there would be no school at the high school for the rest of the week but that coun­selors would be avail­able to stu­dents.

Smith said that the gun didn’t come in­to the school dur­ing “reg­u­lar in­take time.” She said “it was not a fail­ure of our staff, of our pro­to­cols, or of the ma­chin­ery that we have.” But she said she could not elab­o­rate on that.

Shau­na Williams, who has two stu­dents at the cam­pus, said af­ter the shoot­ing that she was now con­sid­er­ing home­school­ing them. At the same school last April, one stu­dent shot an­oth­er in the leg.

“I can’t keep go­ing through this as a par­ent,” she told Dal­las tele­vi­sion sta­tion KD­FW. “I’m telling you, it’s very fright­en­ing to think about los­ing your child, your kids.”

Texas Gov. Greg Ab­bott said in a state­ment that “our hearts go out to the vic­tims of this sense­less act of vi­o­lence.”

By JAMIE STEN­GLE

DAL­LAS (AP)