Posted on 10/07/2021 1:02:11 PM PDT by algore
The teenage gunman who opened fire in an Arlington, Texas, school on Wednesday has been released on bond, a day after pulling a gun from his backpack and shooting a 'bully', a teacher and one other girl.
Timothy George Simpkins was being held on a $75,000 bond on three charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon but the 18-year-old walked out of Tarrant County Jail on Thursday afternoon.
Simpkins said nothing as he strode out of the jail in a blue t-shirt, matching baseball cap worn backwards, and jeans.
It's unclear why he has been charged with aggravated assault and not attempted murder or more serious charges, or why the judge granted him bail.
A video of their fight was posted on social media by Simpkins' cousin on Wednesday night in an effort to prove that he was being bullied.
It shows Simpkins - who was identified by police as wearing a light colored hoodie in the footage - being pummeled by the other boy, who is three years his junior, while holding his hands around his head.
Once the fight was over, he went to his orange backpack, pulled out of his gun and started shooting.
He shot the other boy 'seven to eight times', according to one student who was interviewed by police, and also shot 25-year-old Calvin Pettitt, a teacher who had tried to break up the fight. Pettitt was shot in the back.
Both he and the 15-year-old boy remain in the hospital. Pettitt is expected to survive and is in a good condition but the 15-year-old boy is in critical condition.
A third victim - a teenage girl - suffered a graze wound but is no longer in the hospital.
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He had turned himself in, but he might go camping with Brian Laundrie now
Complain about critical race theory at your local school board meeting and the FBI sends a swat team to your home and shoots your dog.
Good to see that journalism exists somewhere. A lot of details here, a lot of photos, a lot of people quoted. Too bad that the American media doesn’t do this anymore.
So Trump Supporters get thrown in solitary confinement for attending January 6 demonstration (yes, for merely attending, and not even entering the cRapital bldg.) I watched the interview on OANN-Tipping Point after a Trump appointed judge ordered his release.
So conservatives get the Roger Stone treatment and this hoodlum gets released on 75k bail?
No doubt about it, this country has become a nation ruled by political communists.
I thought all blacks were oppressed, suppressed, and prevented from having anything because of whitey! Seems that this kid certainly had an abundance of 'things'. Living with granny though...keeping up stereotypical appearances.
I agree. When you assault a teacher in Texas, it's a whole different ball game.
PENAL CODE TITLE 5. OFFENSES AGAINST THE PERSON CHAPTER 22.
ASSAULTIVE OFFENSES
(b) An offense under Subsection (a)(1) is a Class A misdemeanor, except that the offense is a felony of the third degree if the offense is committed against:
(1) a person the actor knows is a public servant while the public servant is lawfully discharging an official duty, or in retaliation or on account of an exercise of official power or performance of an official duty as a public servant;
And, since he used a gun and shot the teacher, that assault becomes aggravated.
IDK, but an 18 year old beaten up by a 15 year old? Wonder if there was an embarrassment factor?
Regardless which side you’re on other kids will see this and say, “Hey, I think I’ll shoot that bully who’s been picking on me. They’ll just let me off after someone pays my bond.”
Timothy was the bully, beating the snot out of the other kid before shooting up the school.
but hundreds of people were arrested for waving a flag and yelling inside the capitol building, and were thrown into solitary confinement and are still there to this day-
Looks to me that Timothy is the beater, not the beatee in this video.
https://odysee.com/@General_Malaise:8/Timothy-Simpkins-School-fight:b
But keep those Capitol trespassers and “paraders” locked up indefinitely!!!
How in the (naughty word) is this kid not a danger to society and a flight risk? This is pure (nother naughty word)-
First of all, the shooter's social media screams "down-low", and if you listen closely to the beatdown video, the attacker said a lot of weird shit, especially at the end. Looks like he got karma'd.
Putting myself in the DA's shoes (LOL), I would approach Pettitt with the incarceration options for Simpkins, and give weight to his input. For all we know Pettitt blessed the release.
Who’s shocked?? Anyone?? Bueller?? Bueller???
Otherwise he'd still be in jail without bail.
I want to know where his family's money came from.
[[But keep those Capitol trespassers and “paraders” locked up indefinitely!!!]]
GOP should be screaming their heads off about this- instead we just hear crickets-
Fair number of Pettitts in Dixie
Compare with the treatment of January 6th protesters. They are still in solitary confinement nine months later, and they didn’t shoot anyone.
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