Quintin Vargas, age 19

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• Nickname:
  1 Lucky, Q, Oni
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• Number of children:
  2 0
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• Personality:
  4 He was one of the brightest students I've ever had.
  1 Quintin (Oni to family, Q or Lucky to his friends)
  1 I love you Oni, miss you so much.
  1 Quintin was so funny, so imaginative and very sweet.
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• Occupation:
  1 Burger King Cook, student - pre-apprentice electrical
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• Workplace:
  1 Burger King
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• Schools attended:
  1 McNeil High School - Quintin was MOST DEFINITELY a victim of the school to prison pipeline.
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• Comments:
  1 R.I.P 🕯
  1 Miss you every day, Q.
  1 They wore him down until he didn't think he could succeed.
  1 Instead, they seemed to work tirelessly to get him pulled out from under their care...
  1 ...and send him instead to correctional facilities...
  1 ...(Round Rock Detention Center and other ill-equipped campuses),...
  1 ...he was only 14 when McNeil got their hands on his future and...
  1 ..."passed the buck" on his future to a carnivorous system.
  1 The correctional facilitates he was sent to didn't care about him or the...
  1 ...the community he would need to integrate into.
  1 This system is broken and failing our youth.
  1 We believe that this is when Quintin became involved in gang activities.
  1 We truly believe that the McNeil High School staff are more than...
  1 ...partly responsible for what happened to him.
  1 They fed him to the DISGUSTING, RACIST AND ABUSIVE JUSTICE SYSTEM.
  1 ...to provide a REAL opportunity for success, failed because...
  1 ..they didn't want to be bothered.
  1 SCHOOLS LIKE MCNEIL HIGH SCHOOL CONTINUE TO FAIL OUR CHILDREN.
  1 It took the love and patience of the campus staff at Goodwill for Quintin...
  1 ...to find the motivation to pull himself up believe in himself again.
  1 I will never know if the McNeil High staff that quit on my son...
  1 ...but I sometimes wonder WHEN those people will realize the karmic debt they have..,
  1 ...because THEY SHOULD HAVE DONE BETTER.
  1 Thank you Goodwill. I saw my son walk with cap and gown...
  1 ...on 8/1/17. Just a couple of days before he was shot in the chest.
  1 http://gunmemorial.org/2017/08/03/quintin-vargas
  1 Quintin was shot through the chest on the 3rd, passed away on the 4th.
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