Dallas police say a man is charged with murdering a relative in a shooting near an elementary school Wednesday morning.[[415674803,R]]

According to Tramese Jones, Dallas police spokeswoman, a 36-year-old man was shot in the 7000 block of Seco Boulevard, just steps away from John Ireland Elementary school of the Dallas Independent School District.

The man, wounded in the shooting, drove away in his black Cadillac sedan before crashing into a parked vehicle, Jones said. The man, who was not identified, was taken to Baylor Hospital in critical condition and later pronounced deceased.

Shooting this morning outside John Elem. School, Pleasant Grove. released lockdown, no DISD personnel involved. @dallasnews pic.twitter.com/9kSnOpJwxH — Anjulie Van Sickle (@anjuliegrace) March 8, 2017

A 68-year-old man was arrested and charged with murder in connection with the shooting, according to Melinda Gutierrez, Dallas police spokeswoman.

Dallas ISD police officers were among the first to respond to the scene, officials said.

Melinda Gutierrez, a Dallas police spokeswoman, updates the media on the investigation of a deadly shooting near John Ireland Elementary in the Dallas Independent School District.

The shooting was being treated as an act of family violence, Gutierrez said. No further information was released.