Parents of students speak out about Andrew McGann's 'eerie' behavior following murder arrest

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WEST FORK, Ark. (KFOR) — 28-year-old Andrew McGann went to college in Oklahoma, getting his Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education. News 4 spoke with parents from a school where he worked in Texas, who describe his behavior with students as 'eerie.'
Communities across Oklahoma, Texas, and Arkansas are shaken to the core after the arrest of the 28-year-old man from Springdale, AR.
'It shook me…like that's McGann, that's the guy that my kid was around every week at school,' said Lindsay Polyak, parent of a student who attended Donald Elementary in Flower Mound, TX.
McGann was arrested while getting a haircut at an Arkansas salon. Police say he's allegedly behind the killings of the Arkansas married couple, Clinton (43) and Cristen (41) Blink, at Devil's Den State Park over the weekend.
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Tyler Yeakley, an Arkansas native who frequents the park, said, 'It definitely lets you know the craziest things can happen any day out of nowhere, especially in Arkansas.'
You may be wondering how McGann has ties to Oklahoma.
Records show he graduated from OSU Tulsa in the Spring semester of 2022 and became a teacher at Donald Elementary in Flower Mound, Texas, that fall, for the 2022-2023 school year.
He then taught for Broken Arrow Public Schools and Sand Springs before moving to Arkansas.
Polyak described McGann as a 'sick pervert.'
Polyak and another parent, Megan, who asked News 4 to conceal her last name, tell us McGann's behavior was unusual.
'I heard from my son that there were girls that Mr. McGann would tickle,' Polyak said.
Polyak added, 'I started hearing other things from parents whose kids were in his classroom full time, alleging that during lunch time, when all the kids went to the cafeteria, he would invite special girls to stay back and to have lunch with him in his classroom.'
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Megan said parents reported McGann's behavior to Lewisville ISD and Donald Elementary staff.
'Everything just kind of got swept under the rug,' Megan said.
Parents then learned McGann was placed on administrative leave before submitting his resignation letter to staff in the middle of the 2022-2023 school year.
Polyak said, 'If he could have just been terminated by our district, that would have been on his record, that would have raised suspicions and questions by the next districts that he went to. But it wasn't.'
McGann was set to teach at a school in Arkansas this fall, but hadn't made contact with any parents or students.
McGann now faces two counts of Capital Murder charges.
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