Grand jury clears Celina man in Frisco High road-rage shooting case

A Collin County grand jury has cleared Jason Bartik, the Celina man charged with murder in the fatal Frisco High School parking-lot shooting, deciding there was not enough evidence to send the case to trial. The no-bill ends the criminal prosecution for now, but it does not change the fact that Robert Taylor died there, or erase the questions that followed a homicide on school grounds.

The shooting happened at about 8:31 p.m. on Oct. 9, 2025, in the Frisco High School parking lot at 6401 Parkwood Blvd., near Dallas North Tollway and Stonebrook Parkway. Frisco police said officers found Taylor with multiple gunshot wounds and that he was taken to a hospital, where he died. Bartik was charged with murder the next day.

Investigators said the confrontation began as a road-rage dispute. The arrest warrant said Bartik called 911 and reported that he was in a road-rage incident and that the other driver had been tailgating him. Bartik also told officers he brake-checked the other driver before pulling into the school parking lot, where Taylor followed him. That sequence turned a street dispute into a homicide case that drew attention across Frisco and Collin County.

The setting made the case especially unsettling for families who know the area around Frisco High. Frisco ISD said the incident did not involve students, and police said their response was quick. Still, the shooting unfolded in a school parking lot, a detail that kept the case in the public eye long after the arrest.

Taylor’s obituary identified him as Robert Michael Taylor of Plano and said he was 34 when he died unexpectedly on Oct. 9, 2025, in Frisco. The grand jury decision leaves his family with the loss, while Bartik avoids a murder trial unless prosecutors later file a new case with different evidence.

In Texas, a no-bill means grand jurors did not find probable cause to indict. It is a legal threshold, not a finding that the death did not happen or that the events were harmless. For Frisco residents, the outcome may settle the courtroom question, but it leaves the safety concern intact: a deadly confrontation on school property can still happen in a city parking lot in broad view of a school community.