{"id":229163,"date":"2026-03-31T21:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T21:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/229163\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T21:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T21:20:07","slug":"what-we-know-24-hours-after-texas-school-shooting-that-left-teacher-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/229163\/","title":{"rendered":"What we know 24 hours after Texas school shooting that left teacher injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 15-year-old student <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/article\/hill-country-college-high-school-lockdown-shooting-22159561.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:shot a female teacher before fatally shooting himself;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;shot a female teacher before fatally shooting himself&quot;}\" class=\"link \">shot a female teacher before fatally shooting himself<\/a> Monday morning at Hill Country College Preparatory High School in\u00a0Bulverde, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The shooting was reported around 8:34 a.m. and triggered a campus lockdown that lasted for hours. Students were later transported to Bulverde Middle School to reunite with their parents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The school remained closed Tuesday \u201cto allow time for our families and staff to process and begin healing,\u201d Principal Julie Wiley said in an email to families Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The investigation is ongoing, and many questions remain.<\/p>\n<p>Academic pressure could have motivated shooting, sheriff says<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Comal County Sheriff Mark Reynolds said at a press conference Monday that the accused shooter\u2019s family showed up to the reunification site to retrieve their child, but instead were greeted by law enforcement officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The student\u2019s identity has not been made public. At the news conference, Reynolds said investigators confirmed the student used a .357 revolver that he brought from his home. The origins of the firearm are still under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The sheriff said investigators were still conducting interviews to try to identify a motive and determine whether there were \u201cwarning signs\u201d based on the student\u2019s behavior before the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cAs far as the warning signs, I couldn\u2019t answer that at the present,\u201d Reynolds said. \u201cThat is something that\u2026I\u2019m sure we\u2019re going to be talking to other students, we\u2019ll be talking to faculty, we\u2019ll be talking to family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The student was failing multiple classes and could\u2019ve been motivated by academic pressure, the sheriff said, but authorities are still investigating his electronic devices and can\u2019t make a clear determination of motive yet.<\/p>\n<p>GoFundMe raises more than $13K for wounded teacher<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The teacher who was shot has not been publicly identified. Authorities said she was taken to a San Antonio hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A GoFundMe created on her behalf says she underwent surgery for her injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThe funds raised will go directly toward her medical bills and support her as she heals from this traumatic event,\u201d the page states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An update posted Tuesday said Comal Independent School District would cover the teacher\u2019s medical bills, but the district has not confirmed that to the American-Statesman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 15-year-old student shot a female teacher before fatally shooting himself Monday morning at Hill Country College Preparatory&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[88625,88293,88626,88126,88127,27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-229163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-academic-pressure","9":"tag-bulverde","10":"tag-bulverde-middle-school","11":"tag-hill-country-college-preparatory-high-school","12":"tag-mark-reynolds","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-texas-headlines","15":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229163","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=229163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}