Three Dallas high school students were shot and another was grazed in a shooting believed to be ignited over dice game gone wrong.

The first reports of a shooting at Wilmer-Hutchins High School came in around 1pm local time, and authorities believe it occurred inside the school.

An 11th grade student told NBC DFW suggested that a dispute over a dice game led to the gunfire.  

‘They said that they were playing a dice game, I guess that’s what it was over, I guess he lost his money, the boy that was shooting,’ she said. 

While in class, I witnessed him passing by, and moments later, I heard multiple gunshots. The teacher promptly reacted by locking the door and instructing us to hide in a corner.

Although the police haven’t verified the reasons behind the incident, they have acknowledged that a suspect has been recognized. The shooter is currently not in custody, as stated by the Dallas Independent School District Police.

Dallas Fire-Rescue disclosed that three students sustained gunshot wounds inside the school, with one additional student being grazed. The victims, aged between 15 and 18, had injuries ranging from non-life-threatening to severe.

Police were dispatched to the school at 1:06pm local time after getting multiple reports of gunfire.

Students from Wilmer-Hutchins High School in Dallas, Texas, were seen fleeing school grounds any way they could after a shooting took place on Tuesday afternoon

This 11th grade student said that the shooting, which injured four students aged 15 to 18, happened after a dice game went wrong. Police have not yet confirmed this

Although the suspect hasn’t been identified or captured, the 11th grader who spoke to the media seemed to suggest that the shooter was a student. 

‘We were in class and I saw him walk by and then two seconds later I heard like six shots, and the teacher ran to the door and closed it and told us to hide in the corner.’ 

The student said the shots she heard were loud because she was sitting at the front of the classroom.  

‘Everybody just started running and I was like “was that a gunshot?” and this girl next to me she started falling down,’ she said.

She added that the school has a clear bag policy, however, she said that the student she believes committed the shooting brought in a brown bag on Tuesday. 

She also said the school’s metal detectors were working, raising questions about how the weapon got on school grounds.

Harrowing images have circulated of students fleeing for their lives on a local road and across the school’s field toward the Wilmer-Hutchins Eagle Stadium.

By 1:45pm local time, the active shooter threat had reportedly ended, but helicopter footage still showed a heavy police presence around the school.

Another student, a senior, claimed to be even closer to the shooting, telling NBC DFW that she was just seven feet away when the shots rang out.

Police cars swarmed the school minutes after reports of a shooting came through

This is the second shooting students at this high school have had to endure in the last two years. The last one happened in a classroom and one student was injured (Pictured: Students sit on stadium bleachers after Tuesday’s shooting)

Superintendent Stephanie Elizalde gave a news conference just after 5pm and explained that all students had been reunited with their parents

‘I was really scared and I was panicking really bad. It was bad, I was really afraid,’ she said. 

‘I was actually in the cafeteria getting my lunch and I thought maybe it was some balloons popping or something from my airpods and then I saw a whole lot of kids running the opposite way.’

LaTara Dobbin, the mother of a freshman boy, said her son jumped out of his classroom window when the shots rang out and ran to a nearby elementary school.

‘This is going on too much at this school. Last year my oldest son was a senior here, and there was a shooting. Now he’s here with same thing going on. It’s ridiculous,’ Dobbin said.

One student was injured in the shooting that took place in a classroom at the same school last year.

Superintendent Stephanie Elizalde gave a news conference just after 5pm and explained that all students had been reunited with their parents.

School will be canceled for the rest of the week, she said, adding that mental health counselors would be made available to students and staff.

‘You don’t ever just get used to this and I’m very aware of that,’ Elizalde said. ‘It certainly weighs very heavy on my heart. But I can’t begin to imagine, as a parent myself, I’m trying to put myself in those shoes.’