Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times,
An 18-year-old who eyewitnesses say opened fire in a high school in Texas this week was released from jail on bail on Thursday.
On left, school busses depart past a law enforcement official after dropping off Timberview High School children at the Mansfield ISD Center For The Performing Arts, following a school shooting in Mansfield, Texas, on Oct. 6, 2021. On right, shooting suspect Timothy Simpkins is seen in a mugshot. (AP Photo; Arlington Police Department)
Timothy Simpkins walked out of the Tarrant County Jail accompanied by relatives and entered a vehicle without speaking to reporters.
He was released on $75,000 bond.
Simpkins must wear a GPS monitor and was ordered by Tarrant County Magistrate Judge Brooke Panuthos to remain under home confinement and submit to drug and alcohol testing, WFAA-TV reported.
The release drew criticism from some.
“How does this keep managing to get worse,” the sister of Timberview High School teacher Calvin Pettitt wrote on Twitter.
Pettitt was one of four people shot by Simpkins after a fight broke out in a classroom on Wednesday in the high school, according to police and school officials.
Witnesses told police officers that they saw two male students fighting, one of whom was identified as Simpkins. When somebody intervened in the brawl, Simpkins went to his backpack, grabbed a gun, and opened fire, according to an arrest affidavit.
All of the victims survived the shooting.
The firearm was a .45-caliber handgun that was said to have been possessed illegally.
Simpkins turned himself in and was charged with three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Relatives of the suspect say he was bullied in recent months and had became fearful of going to school, driving him to take a weapon.
Law enforcement search a home while looking for the suspect in a shooting at Timeberview High School in Arlington, Texas, on Oct. 6, 2021. (Stewart F. House/Getty Images)
“I’m not trying to justify the gun that was brought, but when you’re being bullied, when there’s bullies, throughout this nation you hear of young people … committing suicide,” Carol Harrison Lafayette, a relative acting as the family’s spokesperson, told reporters on Wednesday night.
“The decision he made, taking the gun, we’re not justifying that. That was not right. But he was trying to protect himself.”
“We ask as a family for forgiveness of any type of hurt,” she added when asked if she had a message to victims and their families.
One of the victims, a 15-year-old student, needed surgery but was recovering, officials said. An adult male, 25, identified by family members as Pettitt, was in good condition, while a teenage girl who was struck was released from the hospital after treatment. The fourth victim, a pregnant adult woman, did not require hospital care.
Video footage circulating on social media appeared to show the fistfight that preceded the shooting and Kevin Kolbye, Arlington’s assistant police chief, said officers are aware of the bullying allegations.
“Even if you’re bullied there are other options besides carrying a gun into a school and using a gun in a situation like that. That’s just not acceptable,” he told KDFW-TV.
Officials have seen an increase in youth carrying weapons in recent years, he added, which he described as “not a solution to any type of violence or anything like that.”
Mansfield school district spokesperson Donald Williams told reporters Wednesday he wasn’t sure if the shooting was linked to bullying. He said an investigation would probe the matter.
“We’re going to continue to investigate this particular situation and the students that are involved will be dealt with in accordance to our Student Code of Conduct,” Williams said.
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Ground apes DA allowing special privileges to other ground apes…..who happen to have money.
It’s called anarchotyranny. Rules don’t apply to certain subspecies. But are used to destroy other groups
doing anything rose in power don’t like.
But the “black community” is against the vaxx! Couple of misunderstandings at school is a small price to pay for having this community on our side against covid tyranny. Don’t let them divide us! Haven’t you seen those you tubes of athletes standing up against the clotshot? Inspiring stuff. My wife’s boyfriend sent me one of a black conservative really owning the libs. I’ve still got the chills. Powerful.
Da fug you say???
Bot?
lol nothing gets past you guys.
Lots of stuff goes right over their heads, though.
It was about as real as this
Fake as fuck.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/my-wifes-son
And the shooter is headed to Martha’s Vineyard to meet his new father.
Don’t underestimate the evil of the vaccine passport – aka the first step to a China-like social credit system.
Didn’t this young hoodlum know it was illegal for him to possess a handgun? Didn’t he know it was illegal to carry the gun on school property? Didn’t he know it was illegal for him to shoot people?
Obviously, we need more laws to stop this sort of thing from happening. //s
It was a “gun free” zone and they had SIGNS on ALL the doors.
What more could they possibly do? /sarc
To most of us, all it takes is a look at who is committing most of these shootings and then to concentrate on those most likely to commit murder. Of course, that would be RAYCISS.
Well hes an oppressed nig so naturally he deserves to be set free. Meanwhile *white* people who walked into the Capitol building on Jan 6 unarmed and peaceful are still rotting away.
What happened to good ol’ fashioned fistfights to solve problems? I remember dating guys in high school who carried shotguns visible on the rack of their back window in their trucks. NEVER did anyone considering pulling it out to shoot up a school due to bullying. We have some serious mental health problems in this country.
This one’s just a nigger problem.
“What happened to good ol’ fashioned fistfights to solve problems?”
Niggers.
Meanwhile over 600 Americans still sit in solitary confinement after being egged into the Capitol building by the FBI.
No bail for trespassing at the capitol, but low bail for shooting four people. I smell colored boy privilege.
In Chiraq, there are no charges for those involved in a street gunfight.
Equity- their new favorite platform. I guess it means if Black Male Teenagers only make up 1/2% of the population then only 1/2% of population Black Male Teenagers can be convicted of shooting some people up on any given day. Some other Black kid, probably in Chicago, probably shot some people. So the daily quota was already reached.
Equity.
They understand they are being given a license to kill white people. “The Purge” is already happening, it is just one sided.
Tribe of satan. little god. Big difference. The real God has not turned His back on His people. I continue to pray for His chosen. The rest belong to the synagogue of satan.
Israel is fallen. God is not dealing with them today. He offers grace freely to any who would seek it. In the past and in the future Gods blessings flowed from Israel to the rest of the world. That was their purpose. Today we live in a “no covenant” era and have direct access to God sans Israel. Thank God!
Romans 11:11-12 KJB… “I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?”
Awesome overview of the Romans epistle here… I think you’ll find it very enlightening!
Australia is between five and six, with seven under construction.
There is no question.
I am not commenting on this incident, but on the wider topic of suppressing male aggression.
There needs to be an acceptance, possibly an encouragement and channeling of male aggression. When society, schools, adopt a zero tolerance of male aggression, they light a fuse and they hope in one hand. School based martial arts training, with competent MALE supervision, can become the forum for channeling aggression and just like lighting a backfire in the context of forest fires, allow the possibility of defusing the bomb.
Fire away.
Agreed. Males are naturally aggressive and society does everything they can to tamp down their behavior and give them zero outlets. A big reason I’m not really for females teaching young boys. I don’t really care for co-education.
I agree, Ms. Adams.
I think segregating females and males would make for better educational outcomes for both. I’m also in favor of parent approved school uniforms to remove the distraction of clothing induced “wealth contests.”
Come over to see the rabble at my local high school when the afternoon bell rings and the kids go home. It looks as if a bunch of homeless people and hookers were let loose and out on parole. Many drive cars to and from school and aggravate the lousy afternoon traffic.
Ran into a white kid one day who’d moved from Kansas to NJ. Asked him why they’d ever want to come here.
“Money. There’s money here.”
Maybe so, but it doesn’t grow on trees and you have to earn it.
Having a father in a young boy’s life would do more to solve the “gun violence” problem in this country than 1,000 new gun control laws.
Yes, fathers…REAL fathers (not these weak ass betas raising gamers either) would be greatly beneficial to society. I see too many young boys that don’t have a strong male presence in their lives and I feel sorry for them for having to grow up that way.
The right fathers, yes.
Great idea, Joe, but better for a Home Schooling community. The compulsory public schools are just fine as they are, fulfilling their appointed task as the foundation plank of The Communist Manifesto.
As for hominids, I will keep my mouth shut, so as not to offend those who may not know the score — I mean may not have read the FBI crime statistics.
Bullies DESERVE to get shot. I sincerely mean that.
However, it appears this dude decided to shoot random people. Fry his black ass!!
“Bullies DESERVE to get shot.” Interesting…
Yes. It is. :>)
Well, if you’ve never been bullied, it’s hard to understand.
Ummm…I have…lol.
You were obviously not bullied enough. Like Rod Dreher.
Touche’ Very negative toward him now. He overdosed on cuckery. I used to think he was kinda interesting with his muse: The Benedict Option. I think that’s the name.
hmmmm….jackboots too?
The Garland clown in DC is in charge of the jackboot detachment.
Garland treating parents as criminals while hostile school boards push garbage propaganda. His daughter is married to a jerkoff who gets paid to supply CRT to the school system.
This guy was the bully…beating up a much younger kid…
Only if they’re vaxxed.
That bully wasn’t guilty of Systemic White Supremacy. Why would a nigga shoot him?
A zigaboo starts shooting up a school and gets out of jail for $75000. Who put up the money? This sounds like a new way to run false flag operations. Find out whose account the bail was paid by and we’ll have our answer. I bet there will be many more.
Listening to the “Aunt” the “family spokesperson” I had to smile. What I call “nigger logic” can justify and rationalize anything and everything. They truely are a race apart which is why I enjoy watching Judge Judy. When there’s a nigger at the podium you never know what kind of magical, wakandan thought is going to come out of their mouths. Being old I need to be entertained and amused. And nigger logic definitely keeps me amused.
Yup. Lived in the midst of them over 40 yrs. 50/50 split in my old neck of the woods. Now they barely tip 1% in this AO. So refreshing. Lots of hispanics but they generally mind their own business and are somewhat trustworthy. Go back to the old neck of the woods and just shake my head. The motif of most of their culture is to get over on someone to make a quick buck.
Hear you. Gettin’ over on someone is like a cultural imperative.
Now if Whitey were really smart he’d get the Hispanics and the Negroes to wipe each other out.
Try this thought experiment:
Walk into a public place and shoot 4 people as a white man.
And see if you are released the next day with a $75,000 bond.
Of course not.
There would be four bodies. No bond.
The white man pays for his ammo and he knows ammo is too expensive to waste!!!
If you shoot 4 people wearing MAGA hats ….. they will probably GIVE you $75,000.
But also remember this, that allowing this boy out on bond could be a death sentence, if not for him at least for somebody that lives in the same house or maybe a neighbor considering how these jackasses spray bullets around.
Why was he in jail at all? Everyone knows that crimes are the gun’s fault.
He was a mostly peaceful dindu school shooter.
No way to hold him. Why all the fuss?
White Privilege ???
Another possible real shooting on school grounds. Not many real ones.
For perspective: 400+ Americans have been in solitary, some being tortured, for 10 months – for taking selfies in the Capitol. Negroid Timothy Simpkins shoots up his school, nearly killing 4 people, and he’s out in 18 hours.
If you say the wrong thing at a school board meeting you’re going to Federal prison.
The niggers can gun people down in broad daylight and the system will actually make excuses for them and hide the story from public view.
Do you see it?! Do you see it yet, White man?!
The compliment: “I wanna fck dat pasty ass…” and Moar.
Come on man, he’s wearing a mask (sorta like his baggy pants half way down his ass)-that’s gotta count for something, doesn’t it? Let’s ask President Brandon about that.
This is more of the “PROMISE PROGRAM” which of course was the direct cause of the big Florida school event. I hope you all see the issues here, gets a lawyer after running from scene, provided by the lawyers guild & lawfare. How can bond be that low? Oh, he’s black. I will also speculate the bullying story is false and other students will paint the opposite picture of this criminal. He’s the bully, it goes with the pornographic behavior.
Aggravated assault?
How about attempted murder- no bail?
Attempted 1st degree murder.
Yes, there’s something wrong with this whole story, and when I get those feelings I trust them. The gooks are in the wire.
It’s hard for most good, honest White families to have enough collateral to cover a bond these days of that size, so I know ain’t no bleks got that kind of money either. And also no way at all, whatsoever, that a White man would have got anything less than attempted 1st-degree murder across the board.
The mic-dropper here is, if it was me who’d gotten shot, I’d have already been looking for this little fuckstain and leaving him in a pool of blood wherever I found him. And then watch the media take that bullying shit right off the table for my defense.
We no longer miss DFW or Texas. Too much like any other Urban AmeriKan utopia and/or state.
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/man-arrested-in-triple-murder-in-fort-worth-dismembered-bodies-found-in-dumpster/2753124/
The sickness is endemic. Pervasive.
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/keller-isd-band-director-arrested-for-indecency-with-a-child/2762074/
“Super Predators” (HumaHillary quote) now got game, a/k/a privilege.
Well, with the affluence and corresponding black privilege, it was more than easy for him to use the gunshow loophole. 😁😁
“Simpkins must wear a GPS monitor and was ordered by Tarrant County Magistrate Judge Brooke Panuthos to remain under home confinement and submit to drug and alcohol testing, WFAA-TV reported.” So Brooke Panuthos is a judge . My question would be, why? Obviously, the first qualification to be a judge would be judgement. She obviously has none. So why is she a judge?
Anyone check the color of her skin?
Check her out here (and believe what you want):
https://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/342654981
Damn that white privilege
simpkins family is alleging that in the “fight” video, simpkins is the one in the white shirt/hoodie that is getting his ass kicked by the kid with the dreds. and fwiw, local dallas media has shown pics of the the kid that was shot, and he has the exact same hairstyle as simpkins. so they are both rocking dreds. imho simpkins mugshot photo with him in a black t-shirt does nothing to help his cause due to the video making it seem like he is the one beating the shit out of the other kid. i’m not saying simpkins was justified in his actions by any means, but the police have not definitely stated who was who in the video yet. so its possible simpkins *was* being beat up by the other kid, then again simpkins family could be lying their asses off with their assertion that he was the one in the white hoodie, which will be very interesting to see how they back pedal on that once the investigators reveal who was who in the video.
Black people lying to evade accountability?
Say it isn’t so.
The first rule, the only rule, is…….
The racist posts here are just fucked up. the shooter was a bad shot and yes he should still be in jail.
like anyone else.
Eat a bullet, faggot.
/sarc