{"id":228316,"date":"2026-03-31T09:13:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/228316\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T09:13:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:13:29","slug":"kaufman-county-11-year-old-shot-on-school-playground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/228316\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaufman County 11-year-old shot on school playground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/8sughzt6iab4k59j.jpg\" alt=\"11-year-old shot on Crandall school playground\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">CRANDALL, Texas &#8211; An 11-year-old is in the hospital after police said he was shot by another child on a school playground.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/033026-opal-smith-school-dan-1-rco-kdfweme002_01_0_00.01.01.00.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">The shooting happened around 7:30 p.m. on Sunday on the playground at Opal Smith Elementary. That\u2019s in the Heartland community of Kaufman County, about 30 minutes east of Dallas.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Crandall police said the 11-year-old boy suffered a non-life-threatening bullet wound to the leg. First responders treated him at the scene and then airlifted him to Children\u2019s Medical Center in Dallas as a precaution.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">The shooter was another 11-year-old boy, who was taken into custody. A pistol that was used in the shooting was also recovered, police said.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/am-news-clean-monday-2026_03_30-kdfweme001_03_03_5_00.04.50.18.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Detectives are still working to determine what led up to the shooting and how the juvenile acquired the handgun.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Crandal ISD said there is no indication of any lingering threat to students or staff. Therefore, Opal Smith Elementary will be open on Monday for normal school hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story is from the Crandall Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/kaufman-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kaufman County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/education\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Education<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CRANDALL, Texas &#8211; An 11-year-old is in the hospital after police said he was shot by another child&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1046,102,104,103,163,6297,223,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-228316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-headlines","11":"tag-dallas-news","12":"tag-education","13":"tag-kaufman-county","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}