Arlington, Texas’s Timothy George Simpkins not linked to Zacchaeus Selby’s murder

Timothy George Simpkins is an African-American man from Arlington, Tarrant County, Texas, United States. The city is home to Mansfield Timberview High School, which was established in 2004.

BIOGRAPHY

Details about Simpkins’ parents are not publicly available. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. He lived in his grandmother’s home in Arlington.
2. He attended Mansfield Timberview High School.
3. He had been bullied at Mansfield Timberview High School, according to his mother.
4. He was born in 2003.
5. He was 3 years older than his Mansfield Timberview High School classmate Zacchaeus “Zac” Selby Mukum and is 7 years younger than Calvin Pettit, an English teacher at the school.
6. In 2021, he opened fire inside Mansfield Timberview High School.
7. After his arrest in 2021, his cousin Cinthy Wheat claimed he was not a bad kid and he was bullied and Carol Harrison Lafayette, who identified herself as her relative, claimed he had been robbed twice before the arrest.
8. From 2021 to 2024, he was represented by Leesa Pamplin and Marquetta Clayton.
9. In 2022, he was indicted on three counts of attempted murder.
10. In 2023, he was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
11. While representing him in 2023, Pamplin asked on cross examination the lead Arlington police detective on the case involving him whether Selby can be heard during their fight in 2021 saying the words “On Blood”, a street gang reference.
12. In 2024, he pleaded guilty to unlawfully carrying a weapon.
13. In 2028, he will be eligible for parole.

TIMELINE

After Selby’s murder in 2025, Arlington detectives said they did not find evidence to suggest that the homicide was connected to the shooting at Mansfield Timberview High School in 2021. The suspect was arrested months after the murder.

2021

• At around 9:15 a.m. on October 6, 2021, he went to his first class at Timberview High School when classmate Selby started to fight him. Teachers broke up the fight, which was captured on cellphone video recorded by Charley Johnson and a surveillance camera. He pulled out a .45 caliber gun and opened fire, hitting Selby, Pettit, pregnant teacher Pariesa Altman and Shaniya McNeely, then 15. He fled the scene in a silver 2018 Dodge Charger, which was later found at an apartment complex in Grand Prairie, Texas. At around 1:15p.m., he turned himself in to authorities. With an attorney, he talked to detectives. Just before 2:00 p.m., he was booked into the Arlington City Jail. He was charged with three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. He bonded out of jail on $75,000.
• On December 23, 2021, he was arrested for violating conditions of his bond.
• As of December 26, 2021, he was being held in Tarrant County Jail in Fort Worth, Texas.

2022

• On February 11, 2022, a Tarrant County grand jury indicted him on three counts of attempted murder while being charged with three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and one count of unlawful carrying of a weapon in a prohibited place.

2023

• On July 14, 2023, he pleaded not guilty of three counts of attempted capital murder, three counts of aggravated assault, and a single count of carrying a gun in a prohibited place.
• On July 17, 2023, his trial started.
• On July 24, 2023, a Tarrant County jury found him guilty of attempted capital murder and sentenced him to 12 years in prison and a $6,000 fine.

2024

• On May 16, 2024, he pleaded guilty to a single charge of unlawfully carrying a weapon and agreed to a two-year sentence for the charge, and in exchange, three counts of aggravated assault were dropped.

2025

• While he was in prison, Selby was fatally shot in the parking lot of an apartment complex on the 2400 block of Laurelwood Drive in Arlington at about 5:50 p.m. on January 13, 2025. Selby, a resident of the apartment complex, was shot allegedly by Joshua Robinson, then 17.
• Detectives did not find evidence linking him to Robinson, who was arrested by the U.S. Marshals North Texas Fugitive Task Force on March 11, 2025.