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