Teen Still In Hospital After Grad Party Shooting
DALLAS - (CBSDFW.COM) A 17-year-old girl remains hospitalized after she was shot during a graduation party in Southeast Dallas.
Witnesses said on Saturday night hundreds gathered at a building that is rented out for parties on the 3200 block of Malcolm X Boulevard near Pennsylvania Avenue for what was supposed to be a private graduation party for two Madison High School students.
CBS11 has learned that two suspects were asked to leave the party after a verbal dispute with someone else.
Moments later shots were fired.
One suspect shot his gun in the air, another shot into the crowd from a car, police said.
"They started crying, screaming, looking for their friends and hoping it was not their friends," said Trina King, who was at the party helping out.
"Somebody in a car and then somebody beside me was shooting. He was shooting up in the air, he shot a lot of times but the boy in the car he was just shooting randomly out of the car," said Laciera Lewis, who attended the party.
She later learned her friend, 17-year-old Deunica Wines, with whom she came to the party, was one of the four victims shot.
An-18-year old man was shot in the foot, a 17 year old girl was shot in the leg and a 10 year old boy was shot in the thigh.
Wines was shot in the torso. The bullet pierced her lung and she remains in intensive care but is recovering.
"We just came from the hospital. They said they took the breathing tube out of Deunica so she's doing good," Lewis said.
King said was a chaperone at the party and that the shooting took place after the party ended.
"There were parents here as well as hired officers," she said.
The other victims are recovering. Police are still looking for the suspects who they believe may have gang connections.
