Convicted School Shooter

Chad Anthony Padilla
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The man convicted and sentenced to prison for opening fire inside Italy, Texas high school, died at the Telford State Prison Unit in New Boston. They found 20-year-old Chad Anthony Padilla unresponsive in his cell, and staff began life-saving efforts. Padilla was taken to the prison medical facility and pronounced dead by paramedics who had responded to the scene. Padilla was serving a 40-year sentence for shooting a female classmate six times. She survived. They are investigating his death as a suicide.