Tracy Haynes Jr., 17, is charged with aggravated assault mass shooting in connection with the shooting at Dallas ISD’s Wilmer-Hutchins High School last week.
Tracy Haynes Jr., 17, is charged with aggravated assault mass shooting in connection with the shooting at Dallas ISD’s Wilmer-Hutchins High School last week.
Tracy Haynes Jr., 17, is charged with aggravated assault mass shooting in connection with the shooting at Dallas ISD’s Wilmer-Hutchins High School last week.
DALLAS — A judge Monday kept the $3.1 million bond amount in place for Tracy Haynes Jr., 17, who is charged with aggravated assault mass shooting in connection with the shooting at Wilmer-Hutchins High School in southeast Dallas last week.
Five students were to taken to hospitals in the shooting that happened shortly after 1 p.m. April 15 – four with wounds related to gunfire and one who Dallas Fire-Rescue officials said wasn’t shot but had suffered from symptoms related to anxiety, according to an affidavit. A prosecutor said Monday that a teacher was among those grazed by a bullet.
According to Dallas County Jail records, Haynes’ bond for all charges is set at $3.1 million.
At the bond hearing Monday, Haynes’ defense argued that his bond should be reduced. Prosecutors, though, argued that the shooting was planned, and the gap in time between the shooting and when Haynes turned himself in indicates that Haynes is a flight risk.
Haynes’ aunt, Cassandra Griffin, testified during the hearing that Haynes lived with her and her husband at the time of the shooting, alleged Haynes told her he had been threatened by gang members before the shooting, and that the family began getting threats the day of the shooting. Prosecutors, though, said there’s no known timeline of threats made against him.
Prosecutors said Haynes attended Roosevelt High School before Wilmer-Hutchins High School, and he was previously charged with assault after punching a student at Career Institute High School and completed six months’ probation. Prosecutors also said police reports indicate Haynes pulled a gun on a couple of family members and had been kicked out of his father’s house before moving in with his aunt.
Another witness, LaCrisha Davis, the cousin of Haynes’ mother, who died in 2020, also alleged Haynes was being threatened by members of the same gang while he was at Roosevelt High School.
Davis, though, said she wasn’t aware Haynes had been accused of assaulting someone before and that staff hadn’t intervened in threats against Haynes.
Another witness, Haynes’ cousin, also testified that Haynes had received threats.
She said Haynes called her 20 minutes after the shooting, but didn’t tell her what happened. After the call, Griffin said she notified police and tried to get Haynes to turn himself in, and she ultimately turned him in to officials at the Lew Sterrett Justice Center in Dallas later the night of April 15. Griffin said Haynes had a health issue and is in the hospital section of the jail.
Clips from the shooting at Wilmer-Hutchins High School were also played during the hearing.
The shooting at the Dallas ISD school – just about a year after another shooting at the same school left a student injured – prompted the mass evacuation of the campus and a large police response. Classes were canceled at Wilmer-Hutchins High School last week.