11-Year-Old Shoots Classmate in Texas

0:00It's March 30, welcome in. This is Dallas News Today, where local news meets AI. An 11-year-old boy in Crandall, Texas, took a bullet to the leg from another 11-year-old on a school playground. Cops say the wound ain't life-threatening, but first responders pass them up on site before airlifting him to Children's Medical Center in Dallas. Just to be safe. Police grabbed the shooter right away and recovered the pistol used in the incident. Both kids are 11, which makes this whole thing different. The school district, Crandall ISD, came out quick saying there's zero sign of any ongoing danger to kids or staff at Opel Smith Elementary. Folks in the area are shaken up, naturally, with parents talking gun safety and how this slipped through. Detectives are digging deep right now into what sparked the shooting and how that young kid even got his hands on the handgun. We'll stay on this as more details drop, keeping it real for the community watching close.