Arlington school shooter PARTIES at home with family after being freed on $75k bond while his victims remain in the hospital: Gunman, 18, walks free one day after shooting 15-year-old ‘bully’ seven times’ AND teacher who broke up brawl
- Timothy George Simpkins, 18, was released on bond on Thursday after a bondsman paid his $75k bail
- He pulled a gun from his backpack on Wednesday at Timberview High School shortly after 9am
- Video taken minutes earlier shows him being beaten up by another boy in his classroom
- His family says he was being ‘bullied’ because he has nice things and was constantly picked on
- Witnesses told police that Simpkins shot the ‘bully’ seven or eight times before shooting a teacher and fleeing
- He fled campus then turned himself in to cops on Wednesday afternoon along with his attorney
- Police won’t say where the gun came from, who it is registered to or how he was able to get it into school
- The school does not have metal detectors like many other schools
- The teenager who was shot has not been named; he remains in the hospital
- Another teenager suffered a grazer wound and 25-year-old teacher Calvin Pettitt was shot in the back
The teenage gunman who opened fire in an Arlington, Texas, school on Wednesday celebrated at home after being released on a $75,000 bond while his victims, a 15-year-old boy and a 25-year-old teacher, remained in the hospital, one of them clinging to life.
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. A bondsman met the bail terms on Thursday, posting at least some of the full amount, and he walked free.
On Wednesday, he pulled a gun from his backpack and shot a 15-year-old boy ‘seven or eight times’, shot teacher Calvin Pettitt in the back and grazed a teenage girl before going on the run from Timberview High School. He was angry about a fight that had just happened where the 15-year-old boy repeatedly punched him.
Simpkins said nothing as he strode out of the jail on Thursday 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.