Affidavit reveals new details about Arlington school shooting - The Dallas Morning News

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Updated at 2:55 p.m.: Revised to include comment from Mansfield ISD.

A fight between two students was broken up before one retrieved a gun from his backpack and fired inside an Arlington high school classroom Wednesday morning, according to an arrest warrant affidavit released Thursday.

Timothy George Simpkins, 18, was named as a suspect in the shooting at Timberview High School that injured four people and was taken into custody Wednesday afternoon about 1:20 p.m., Arlington police said. Simpkins was being held at the Arlington jail but was taken to Tarrant County Correction Center around 8:30 a.m. Thursday.

Simpkins faces a three charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapons, and posted bond Thursday. He turned himself in Wednesday with the help of an attorney but it was unclear Thursday who is representing him. The motivations for the fight and shooting remain unknown, but he apparently acted after a fight, and family members said he had been bullied.

Police were dispatched about 9:15 a.m. Wednesday morning to reports of an active shooter incident at the high school. Witnesses said shots were fired after a fight broke out between two students, one of whom was identified as Simpkins.

The fight was broken up and witnesses said the two students calmed, but affidavit says Simpkins pulled out a black firearm from an orange backpack. One witness heard three or four gunshots, while another heard seven or eight gunshots.

Three people were shot, including a teacher who jumped in to break up the fight, the document said. Bond condition documents identified Calvin Petit, but public records list him as Calvin Pettitt, who is listed as a teacher at the high school. He is in good condition as of Thursday morning, police said.

The student who engaged in the initial fight with Simpkins was also shot. The third person, a student, suffered a graze wound.

Zacchaeus Selby, Eyimofe Olawepo and Pariesa Altman were also listed as people Simpkins must stay away from in the bond document. Their ages are unclear, but police said Wednesday that other victims include a 15-year-old boy who is in critical condition and a teenage girl who had what police said was a small abrasion. A fourth person had minor injuries.

Elizabeth Carmody, a Mansfield ISD spokeswoman, did not immediately offer a comment on the family’s allegations.

“All the information that we’ve made available has been sent out to the media outlets, as well as posted on our website,” Carmody said, referring to an Thursday-morning update that included a video message from the district’s superintendent, Kimberley Cantu.

The post made no reference to Simpkins.

“While we continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding yesterday’s incident, we are now focused on healing our community,” Cantu said.

Timberview, about 20 miles southwest of downtown Dallas, is in the city of Arlington but part of the Mansfield school district. Mansfield ISD includes parts of Mansfield, Arlington and Grand Prairie.

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