Are there charging documents or court records available yet for Chad Michael Watts or the juveniles, and what do they show?
Executive summary
Police statements and multiple news outlets report that Chad Michael Watts was arrested and booked on two counts of assault causing bodily injury after a physical altercation with students at a Buda-area walkout; reporters cite jail records confirming booking and that investigators identified him as the "primary aggressor" [1][2][3]. None of the provided reporting, however, reproduces or links to formal charging documents (complaints, affidavits, or indictments) nor to juvenile court filings for any minors involved, and there is no sourced public docket or court-record text in the materials reviewed [1][2][3].
1. What the available press reporting actually shows about charges and booking
Local and national outlets uniformly report that Buda police served an arrest warrant for Watts on two counts of assault causing bodily injury and that he was booked into Hays County Jail; stories cite police department statements describing him as the "primary aggressor" and note that video of the incident circulated on social media and was used in the investigation [1][2][4]. Multiple outlets (KSAT, Statesman, CBS Austin, KUT, The Blaze) state the charges are Class A misdemeanor-level offenses under Texas law without reproducing a sworn affidavit or court charging instrument [2][3][5].
2. What the jail and police records reported so far reveal — and their limits
Jail booking entries quoted in news pieces show Watts was held in Hays County Jail after his arrest and that early jail records either did not list bond or indicated no bond and no release date as of reporting — a status snapshot rather than a court disposition [5][1]. Police public statements that "probable cause was established" and that Watts was identified as the primary aggressor are cited in nearly every report, but those are investigative conclusions announced by law enforcement, not the text of charging documents or judge-signed complaints [5][4].
3. What is missing from the public record in the supplied reporting
None of the provided articles includes the actual charging document (the sworn affidavit or complaint), a court docket number, an arraignment transcript, or records showing final filings or any judicial action beyond the arrest and booking [1][2][3]. There are also no juvenile court records or prosecutor filings for minors in the materials; reporting refers to "students" and "minors" involved and quotes police about juvenile participants, but the press clips do not present juvenile petitions, diversion records, or detention orders [4][6].
4. Where secondary sources and background databases complicate the picture
Commercial background aggregators and people-search sites surfaced by searches (Spokeo, MyLife) show entries for individuals named Chad Watts and historical records that may or may not pertain to this person; those services themselves caution against assuming a match and are not substitutes for court dockets or certified court records, and no outlet in the reviewed corpus uses those as primary evidence of the present charges [7][8]. Some outlets frame the story through ideological lenses — headline choices and descriptions (e.g., "MAGA" in commentary pieces) indicate editorial angle and suggest readers weigh partisan framing against the underlying police account [9].
5. Bottom line and what to expect next in publicly available records
Based on the supplied reporting, there are confirmed police charges and a jail booking for Chad Michael Watts — two counts of assault causing bodily injury — but no published charging instrument or court docket excerpt was included in these stories, and nothing in the provided files shows formal juvenile court records for the students involved [1][2][3][4]. To see the charging documents or juvenile petitions, the next steps are to check the Hays County Clerk/Court online docket, any public e-filing portal for misdemeanor cases in Hays County, or subsequent news updates that might reproduce or link to the complaint or prosecutor filings; those records were not present in the sources reviewed and thus cannot be quoted here [2][3].