Armed student prompts officer-involved shooting at Dallas area charter school

MESQUITE, Texas (KXAN) — A Dallas area officer was involved in a shooting after a student showed up to a charter school armed Monday morning, according to school officials and police.

Officers with the Mesquite Police Department responded to the Pioneer Technology and Arts Oates campus shortly before 9 a.m. after reports of a person with a gun, according to a post from the police department. The call was then changed to an active shooter call.

Mesquite is located just east of Dallas.

Police said the person entered the building with the firearm, and officers tried to negotiate but during the process of negotiation, an officer-involved shooting occurred.

The suspect was transported to a local hospital, according to Mesquite Police. The police department said no officers or students were injured.

The suspect was later identified as a 16-year-old student from the campus. Police are withholding his identity because he is a juvenile, according to a news release from MPD.

Police said the student is in custody. Furthermore, there were no injuries to other students, faculty members or officers.

Reunification for students from the school was done at a nearby church, and they were later released to family members, according to the school’s emergency plans.

According to MPD, the three officers involved in the shooting were an 8-year veteran, a 5-year veteran and an officer-in-training, who has “multiple years of service” with another agency.

The shooting remains under investigation by the MPD Criminal Investigations Unit, Internal Affairs Unit and investigators with the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office, according to police.

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