Officials: Texas high school student "inadvertently" shoots self
DALLAS -- A Dallas high school student was wounded Monday morning when a gun he brought to school went off, according to officials.
A shelter-in-place was put into effect at Kimball High School in Dallas on Monday morning, but was lifted early in the afternoon. The school district said the student's injuries are non-life threatening and he has been taken to a local hospital.
"The student was injured when he inadvertently shot himself with a single-shot revolver after the first class period had ended," the Dallas Independent School District said in a statement released on Twitter Monday afternoon. "The student arrived at school today with this for (an) unplanned conference with school administrators. Because of the circumstance, the procedures for the metal detectors was not applied."
It is not clear why the gun was in the student's possession or whether it was related to the conference with administrators.
The incident remains under investigation, according to officials.