LRSD Don Roberts Elementary School deliberately lied to parents about an incident (suicide) that occured on campus.
A little before 1:00 p.m. on Monday March 31st, 87 year old Donald Goens pulled into the Kinder parking lot on the western side of Don Roberts Elementary School at 16601 Lamarche Drive. Kinder parking lot at Don Roberts Elementary School After parking in the lot, Goens called his daughter, Paula Caruthers, and had a brief conversation. He had been to a doctor's appointment earlier, in the day and must have received some bad news. By the time his daughter and her husband, Scott, arrived at the school at 12:56 p.m., Goens had already gotten out of his vehicle and shot himself in the head. Goens lived a short distance from the school. The police report indicates that Scott Caruthers called LRPD to report the suicide in the school parking lot at 1:05 p.m. The report states that it was a "horrific scene". At 1:59 p.m., almost an hour after Goens shot and killed himself in a parking lot at the school, the school sent out a text message to parents. They stated that an incide...