Posted on 01/28/2022 6:53:47 PM PST by Morgana
A former student of a Missouri boarding school has been identified as the suspect who shot and wounded three Houston police officers after an hours-long standoff Thursday night.
Roland Caballero, 31, is in custody after the Thursday night shooting, according to ABC13 and KPRC 2 in Houston. Caballero reportedly was shot in the neck and was taken to the hospital.
Two of the three officers had been released from the hospital as of Friday afternoon, according to Houston Police. The third is in stable condition, police said.
Caballero attended Agape Boarding School in Stockton, Missouri, as a teenager from around 2005 to 2008, former students told The Star. “We grew up together at Agape,” said Colton Schrag, who said he saw the news about the shooting Friday while working in an oil field in Texas.
Since early last year, Agape has been the subject of an investigation into allegations of abuse. In September, five staff members were charged in Cedar County with physically assaulting students. And last month, a Stockton doctor who has treated Agape students for years was charged in Greene and Cedar counties with 11 counts of child sex abuse.
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All in the Left’s plans.
Denigrate and insult police. Have big BLM demonstrations denouncing them with mayors and governors chiming in and defunding plans everywhere. TV news panels rile up impressionable types to have a chip on their shoulder and figure they owe it to themselves to kill cops.
Then morale is down, police fear getting “Chauvined” for life in hard time prison if they are impolite during an arrest. Ambushed cops die week after week.
The Dems and BLM have a lot to answer for.
What the heck does the boarding school angle have to do with anything? Journalism sucks these days.
This boarding school has been in a lot of trouble recently. 5 staff members going to court for assault and recently their doctor? Dr. David Smock went on the run for sex offenses. He was caught in Arkansas hanging out with the Fouke Monster. He’s now back in Missouri recovering from covid with last I read about 13 charges.
From the article:
“Schrag said he, Caballero and another student were the subjects of a violent restraint by several staff members at Agape in April 2007.
Schrag told The Star in October 2020 about the incident and described it in testimony he sent to Missouri lawmakers last year as they held hearings on a bill which later passed and gives the state more oversight over unlicensed boarding schools.
Schrag also testified in person at one of the legislative hearings in Jefferson City. In his written testimony, Schrag said Caballero had been taken from the dorm into a hallway for rolling a fake marijuana joint out of paper. Then, Schrag said, he and another student were sent to the hallway as well.
“As I walked out of the dorm of about 175 boys I was met in the hallway by 5 staff members and one student (Roland Caballero) who had a bloody nose, two black eyes, his shirt was shredded and arms were bruised due to a restraint he had just received for rolling a fake joint,” Schrag wrote in his statement.
He said the three were then accused of plotting an escape and when they refused to give staffers the answer they wanted, they were restrained and repeatedly punched in the face, kicked and slammed to the floor.”
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These are teenagers...some kids as young as 7 but mostly 12 to 17 that this school does this to. Now you wonder why this happened Houston? Sounds more like Agape Fight Club than a boarding school
The number of times any news director has said, “Only use it if you can find a local angle” is infinite!
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