
09/19/2025
🦅 PART 2 — Why was Trooper Oduwole really at Weiss High School?
📄 Public records from DPS show his March 28, 2024 visit was unauthorized, violated policy, and was explained with irreconcilable stories. PfISD may have said “no wrongdoing,” but DPS’s own record points the other way.
🔻 His supervisor (DPS Lt. Luis Verdeja) — not authorized, not his job, not reported:
🧭 “Verdeja was not made aware SA Oduwole went to Weiss High School on March 28, 2024.”
🧰 “School visits were not the normal duties and responsibilities of the Special Agents assigned to the Capitol.” / “Special Agents assigned to the Capitol did not proactively do school visits.”
🪪 Oduwole “was not at the school in any known official capacity.”
⚠️ Agents were required to notify their supervisor before leaving the Capitol Complex; he did not. “If it occurred as described, it should have been reported to him.” It was a “violation of DPS policy” not to report, and Oduwole “has an issue with not communicating” with his supervisor.
🟨 The trooper’s shifting reasons — a web of changing stories:
🗂️ “I often go to Weiss High School to perform school visits, exchange information with school resource officers, and sometimes aid.”
📺 Elsewhere: he came to liaise with SRO DeJesus and help his wife take down a television.
👮 In other statements: he was there only to see Officer DeJesus.
🏫 The front office account: he asked to speak to his wife, and she told the receptionist to “just let him in.”
🧩 The contradiction: “I walked in, without being asked to sign in…” even as he later called it a “police situation.”
📚 Then he backtracks: “\[The] issues were to be handled administratively… I would not take any action.”
👮♂️ The campus police chief (Patrick Petherbridge) — ask the SRO:
📝 When investigators asked the purpose of the visit, handwritten IA notes show the chief would “have to ask Officer De Jesus the purpose of SA J. Oduwole’s visit.”
👥 Key witnesses on campus — stories don’t match:
🧑🏫 Leslie Oduwole (AP/spouse): he wasn’t there to see her — he was there “to visit with Officer DJ.”
🚨 Officer Juan “DJ” DeJesus (SRO): he “only said hi” to SA Oduwole and did not have a conversation with him that day.
🛎️ School receptionist: Oduwole walked in asking to speak to his wife; entry was granted informally at her direction.
🧷 Put it together:
🧮 Four different motives from the trooper (routine visit, move a TV, see the SRO, see his wife), a chief who can’t state a purpose without punting to the SRO, an SRO who says he didn’t even speak with him, and a supervisor who says it wasn’t authorized, wasn’t his duty, wasn’t reported, and that Oduwole has a communication problem.
❓ So why was he there — to move a TV, to see the SRO, or to insert himself into a situation already involving his wife? The official record makes one thing clear: it wasn’t authorized, and the stories don’t add up.