Student killed in shooting outside Bowie High School in Arlington identified

A 17-year-old male student is charged with murder and officials are in the process of reuniting students and families, police say.

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"The officers immediately began performing life-saving measures on him while we waited for paramedics to arrive," Jones said. "The young man was transported to the local hospital, and I'm truly heartbroken to say he was pronounced dead from his injuries. Bowie High School was immediately placed on lockdown."

“Our hearts are with the entire Bowie High School community tonight, “ said Jones. “We, as a community, cannot tolerate this kind of violence. Not in our neighborhoods and not in our schools. Violence is never the right answer. We will continue to work in lock step with our partners at Arlington ISD to ensure our schools are safe spaces where students can learn."

"We cannot tolerate this kind of violence in our community. We can't tolerate this violence in our neighborhoods, and we certainly won't tolerate it in our schools," Jones said.

Police are in the process of reuniting students with families after the school was on lockdown for three hours Wednesday. The reunification area is set up at 1001 E. Division Street at the Arlington ISD Athletics and Aquatics Center. Police say overflow parking for reunification is available at lot 11 at AT&T Stadium.

"Honestly I'm at a loss for words tonight by this tragedy at Bowie High School this afternoon," Arlington ISD Superintendent Dr. Matt Smith said. "Schools are supposed to be a place of learning and growth and this afternoon, it was interrupted by senseless violence."

"She was scared," the mother said. "I don't know if she heard anything...I'm planning on talking to her as soon as they let me have her."

"I'm so thankful to God that they're safe, not just my daughter, but all the students," she added. "Schools are supposed to be sacred ground. We shouldn't have this kind of stuff going on at the school. They should just be here so they can get their education. So I'm just really glad that she's safe, and she's well, and just waiting to get her back."

"But now that it has, it does make me a bit scared to have to come back the next day and know that it happened at a school where I used to feel safe at, but now I really don't," she said.

“I kept hearing sirens going back and forth, and then I got a phone call from a parent who said that there was a shooting at the school. So I went out on my patio and stood up and looked over my fence, and I could see the police started to block off the street," the neighbor said. "I couldn’t tell where the shooting was, but I know that usually at that time, the kids are getting out of the school, and there was no movement. So I knew that something serious had happened.”

This shooting comes less than three years after another high school shooting in Arlington at Mansfield ISD's Timberview High School, less than four miles down the road from Bowie High School. Four people were injured in a shooting that happened after a fight in October 2021.