Texas high school shooting leaves four injured, gunman arrested

The school welcomes just under 2,000 students in this city located between Dallas and Fort Worth, in the north of the state.

A new drama touches the United States . Four people were injured Wednesday October 6 in a shooting at a high school in Texas, when a student opened fire following a fight with another student before surrendering to the police a few hours after the fact, local police said . "We are at the scene of a shooting at high school Timberview" said  local police on Twitter  (English article).

Three people were taken to hospital, two of them with gunshot wounds, Kevin Kolbye, deputy police chief of Arlington, the city where the incidents took place, told a press conference. He did not specify the severity of these injuries. The fourth, a pregnant woman, was treated on site for minor injuries.

Three students among the victims

Among the victims, three are students and the fourth is older, he added, without being able to say if it was a teacher or a member of the staff of the high school of Timberview, which welcomed 1,700 students in this town on Wednesday. located between Dallas and Fort Worth, in North Texas.

The police were notified at around 9.15 a.m. of shots fired on the first floor of the establishment. Several units surrendered, but the gunman, Timothy George Simpkins, an 18-year-old student, had already fled in his car.

The young man contacted a lawyer and eventually went to the police, Kolbye said during a press briefing in the afternoon. He was being questioned by Arlington Police investigators and should be charged with assault with a weapon, police said.

School shootings have been a plague in American society since the massacre in Columbine, Colorado, in April 1999. They are typically reported by local media, but rarely make national media headlines. Only a bloodbath, as in a high school in Parkland, Florida in February 2018, which killed 17 people, is now causing a shock wave.