Student fatally shot near Lake Highlands High School, Dallas police say

Dallas police are looking for the person who fatally shot a Lake Highlands High School student less than a mile from the school on Tuesday, officials said.

Officers responded to a shooting in the 7300 block of Skillman Street around 5:40 p.m. A teenager had been shot by an unknown suspect, police said. The victim died at a local hospital from his injuries.

Lake Highlands High School officials identified the victim as junior Dadrien Harrison in an email obtained by the Lake Highlands Advocate.

Harrison’s family told Fox4 that he was shot in the back during a disagreement with some other kids. It’s not clear what the disagreement was about.

“He was with some friends, and they chased him, and he was shot,” Ashley Kelly, Harrison’s mother, told Fox4.

School officials said in the email that the campus would use metal detectors for the rest of the week and a crisis counseling team will be available to talk to students.

Lake Highlands High School is part of the Richardson Independent School District.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact Detective Adam Thayer at 214-671-3657 or adam.thayer@dallaspolice.gov, or reach out to Crime Stoppers at 214-373-8477. Crime Stoppers will pay up to $5,000 for information called into the tips phone line that leads to an arrest and indictment.