The suspect, Ja’kerian Rhodes-Ewing, got a five-year prison sentence with the plea agreement.
DALLAS — The suspect in the 2024 shooting at Wilmer-Hutchins High School has a reached a plea agreement with prosecutors, officials said, and has been sentenced to serve five years in prison.
The shooter, Ja’kerian Rhodes-Ewing, fled the school after the April 2024 shooting and was later taken into custody on Langdon Road adjacent to the Wilmer Hutchins Athletic Stadium, according to an arrest affidavit. The weapon believed to have been used in the shooting, which was hidden in a semi-wooded area near where Rhodes-Ewing was taken into custody, was also recovered, the affidavit stated.
Rhodes-Ewing was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. There were metal detectors at the school that day, but officials would later say Rhodes-Ewing’s bag wasn’t properly checked after the metal detector went off.
This was the first of two shootings that took place at the Dallas high school within the last 14 months. The second shooting happened in April 2025, when police said suspect Tracy Haynes Jr. injured four students and a teacher after another student reportedly let Haynes in through an unsecured door.
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