A Dallas Kimball High School basketball player was arrested Wednesday night after an accidental shooting injured a classmate as the team prepared for the University Interscholastic League state tournament in San Antonio.
Eighteen-year-old Kyron Henderson was arrested on two felony gun charges, according to police records. Last month, Henderson signed a scholarship to play at football at West Texas A&M. The injured student – who was hit in the ankle, according to WOAI-TV – was a trainer for the school. The gun was in a bag and went off when the bag was moved on the bus, according to a police report.
The team arrived in San Antonio on Wednesday in preparation for Thursday night’s Class 5A state semifinal game against Beaumont United. Kimball had just practiced at a San Antonio Northside ISD facility and were on a charter bus headed to dinner when the gun went off, striking the trainer, according to Dallas ISD superintendent Michael Hinojosa.
Hinojosa said the injured student was taken to a hospital and already was out of surgery and headed back home to Dallas with her parents.
“Only thing I can say to that family is we apologize,” Hinojosa said at a press conference Thursday. “The irony is that she’s a student trainer who was volunteering her time on an outstanding basketball team to provide her service to this team and she gets injured.”
Hinojosa said the UIL is allowing Kimball to continue competing in the state tournament, in part, because of the quick actions of Dallas ISD, including removing Henderson from the team.
“They agree with us that you shouldn’t punish the entire team for the actions of an individual,” Hinojosa said. “Being a classroom teacher for as long as I was, it was not appropriate to punish the entire class because one of the students was acting up.”
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