The accused gunman in a school shooting in South Dallas over a year ago has been sentenced.
Ja'Kerian Rhodes-Ewing was 17-years-old when he took a revolver inside Wilmer-Hutchins High School in April of 2024 and shot another student who was injured. The Dallas Morning News reports he was sentenced this week to five years in prison.
Rhodes-Ewing pleaded guilty to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and unlawfully carrying a firearm.
Just a year later, a second shooting at the same high school forced parents to go through the same agony a second time.
Four were injured in the shooting in April of 2025.
After both incidents students walked out in the days that followed over safety concerns.