The victim of the shooting at a Texas high school remains in an induced coma in the ICU as he fights for his life.
Timothy Simpkins, 18, shot Zacchaeus Selby, 15, four times with a .45-caliber handgun during a fight that broke out at Timberview High School in Arlington on Wednesday. Calvin Pettit, a teacher who tried to break up the fight, was also wounded in the shooting, and another student was grazed by a bullet.
Simpkins turned himself in following an hourslong manhunt. Arlington police released him from custody Thursday. He faces three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Kim Cole, attorney for the Simpkins family, claimed that Selby had bullied and even robbed her client.
"This was not someone who was out to go and shoot up a school," Cole told reporters. "There’s a distinction between a mass shooter or a mass shooting. These people who are out to harm multiple people, and that’s not what happened here."
However, Selby’s family stressed that their son was the victim. "They’re making Simpkins out to be the victim. My grandson is in the ICU – shot four times," Kathy Selby, Zaccheaus Selby’s grandmother, told KXAS-TV. "My grandson is the victim."
Why is he already out on bail? Why was he not charged with attempted murder and illegal possession of a firearm? This was attempted murder. You don't point a .45 at someone and shoot four times thinking you want them to live.
So the kid’s mother backs the kid up for bringing a gun to school and critically wounding another student and injuring a teacher and we wonder what is wrong with the kids?
Timothy Simpkins, 18, shot Zacchaeus Selby, 15, four times with a .45-caliber handgun during a fight that broke out at Timberview High School in Arlington on Wednesday. Calvin Pettit, a teacher who tried to break up the fight, was also wounded in the shooting, and another student was grazed by a bullet.
Simpkins turned himself in following an hourslong manhunt. Arlington police released him from custody Thursday. He faces three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Kim Cole, attorney for the Simpkins family, claimed that Selby had bullied and even robbed her client.
"This was not someone who was out to go and shoot up a school," Cole told reporters. "There’s a distinction between a mass shooter or a mass shooting. These people who are out to harm multiple people, and that’s not what happened here."
However, Selby’s family stressed that their son was the victim. "They’re making Simpkins out to be the victim. My grandson is in the ICU – shot four times," Kathy Selby, Zaccheaus Selby’s grandmother, told KXAS-TV. "My grandson is the victim."
Why is he already out on bail? Why was he not charged with attempted murder and illegal possession of a firearm? This was attempted murder. You don't point a .45 at someone and shoot four times thinking you want them to live.
So the kid’s mother backs the kid up for bringing a gun to school and critically wounding another student and injuring a teacher and we wonder what is wrong with the kids?
