Texas School Shooting Suspect Freed on Bail

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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.

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.

โ€œHow does this keep managing to get worse,โ€ 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.

โ€œIโ€™m not trying to justify the gun that was brought, but when youโ€™re being bullied, when thereโ€™s bullies, throughout this nation you hear of young people โ€ฆ committing suicide,โ€ Carol Harrison Lafayette, a relative acting as the familyโ€™s spokesperson, told reporters on Wednesday night.ย ย โ€œThe decision he made, taking the gun, weโ€™re not justifying that. That was not right. But he was trying to protect himself.โ€

โ€œWe ask as a family for forgiveness of any type of hurt,โ€ she added when asked if she had a message to victims and their families.

Byย Zachary Stieber

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