School Bus Incident

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You might be a terrorist if you attack or accidentally crash into a school bus. Or just some random person on a bad day DUI, texting, mentally ill, no license, on drugs, etc.

New school bus costs about $60,000 to replace if destroyed.

*Timeline

Year 2018

November 14, 2018  Suspected Burglary Byron Minnesota School Bus Crash A 17 year old male teen from Rochester Minnesota who remains unnamed drove past a stopped Byron School District school bus with stop arm and warning lights and struck a 5 year old kindergarterner who walked out of the bus to walk home after school. Her leg was injured and she was driven to the hospital. (2) Only minutes before, the teen had been detained by deputies for a burglary in progress, asked questions and released. (1)

Oct 31, 2018  Kentucky crash For 6th time hurt 3rd time in 3 days, a driver hits kids at a bus stop, this time in Tampa, police sayABC 15 Phoenix· 7-year-old boy has been killed by a hit-and-run driver while waiting at a school bus stop,...Kentucky police are looking for a driver that hit two brothers crossing a busy intersection to get to their bus stop, authorities say.  The 11-year-old and 13-year-old were struck at around 6:30 a.m. Wednesday in Louisville, Kentuck y.  It was at least the sixth time in three days that children were hurt or worse at a bus stop. The other incidents occurred in two cities in Florida, Mississippi, Indiana and Pennsylvania.

Year 2017

September 28, 2017 1 killed, 1 charged with murder Brandon Brill Charged Wrong Way Head On Crash Murder of Teacher in School Bus Wrong way crash could be deliberate?  Wrong way swerved into bus, no license  Fox News reported that Brian Simpson, 37, a teacher who also is cross-country coach for the Harrisburg School District, was driving girls to a meet  when a pickup truck driving he wrong way crossed the center line, struck the bus and knocked it on its side, causing it to catch fire, killing the teacher. [2]   Brandon Brill, of Clark, Mo., was charged with murder in the second-degree, specifically felony murder [3]  As of Mar 2018,  26-year-old Brandon Brill remained in the Boone County jail without bond. [5]

1 attempted abduction October 30, 2014 Gunman tries to kidnap boy near school bus stop in Prince George's County Thursday, October 30 WJLA - Tom Roussey Prince George's County Police are looking for a man and woman accused of trying to abduct an 8-year-old boy at gunpoint... boy was walking to his school bus stop when a car pulled up in front of him. They say a man got out of the car and pointed a gun at the boy. Then, a woman got out of the passenger's side and told the boy to get in the car.

2 buses destroyed $120,000 November 23, 2013 Two Prairiland school buses destroyed by fire, arson suspected KXII-TV Deputies say around 11 o'clock they found the buses on fire behind the high school. Sheriff Scott Cass says two of the buses were destroyed ...

Man Hijacks Arkansas School Bus October 17, 2013 Nicholas John Miller, a white male who works at a warehouse used a knife and threats to hijack a school bus, and took over driving. He kept driving through red lights and striking guard rails when pursued by a police car with flashing lights, but drove off the highway where he surrendered before reaching tire spikes laid to stop the bus. Miller's cover story was that he was running from people after him, and was only trying to save his own life, not hurt anybody in the bus. Miller was charged with vehicle piracy, 12 counts of kidnapping, two counts of aggravated assault, one count of fleeing, one count of DWI-Drugs, one count of refusal, and one count of reckless driving. Just the week before, Miller was arrested for terroristic threats in a domestic dispute when he was he was high on methamphetamine. The month before, Miller was arrested for Possession of Drug Paraphernalia on a traffic stop for improper license plate tags. In May, Miller was arrested breaking in to a car and stealing cash and guns.

Malala Yousafzai October 9, 2012 Afghan teenager girl Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head and neck in an assassination attempt by Taliban gunmen while returning home on a school bus.


School bus hijacked in Atlanta by shirtless man, crashes through ...
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Aug 28, 2009 ·School bus hijacked in Atlanta by shirtless man, crashes through fence BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA - A public school bus that was hijacked by a shirtless man was careening down a nearby road at around 25 mph, and screaming kids were jumping out the back of the vehicle. 23-year-old Arris Pitmon leaped through the window of the Atlanta bus,He took control of the steering wheel, then left the seat to chase the driver, who had run to the rear, the officer said. overpowred the driver to take the wheel and then left the bus driverless as it thundered down a steep hill....Two students and the bus driver suffered minor injuries, police said. ...Pitmon was arrested after the crash, he was naked, police said. Turner, who had rushed to the scene, said the man lost his pants while trying to escape from bystanders...and he just had a condom on.

Students, Citizens Thwart School Bus HijackingNationalTerrorAlert ^ | 8/27/09 | National
Posted on 8/28/2009 9:36:32 PM by Sammy67Quick thinking by a dozen teenagers may have avoided an apparent school bus hijacking from turning tragic, said witnesses. A man boarded a bus as it stopped at Boulevard and Burroughs Road and tried to take control of it, school district and Atlanta police officials said. The suspect briefly fought with the bus driver, forcing her out of the seat and taking control of the vehicle. At about 4 p.m. Thursday afternoon, an Atlanta Public Schools bus ran off of Boulevard Road after Arris Pitmon, 23, forced his way onto the bus transporting Forrest Hills Academy students and began attacking the driver and a student.
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Tue, Apr 30, 2002 (10:58 a.m.) PAHRUMP -- Students filed back into Pahrump Valley High School this morning a day after being sent home as a precaution after a 15-year-old student tried to implement his plan to blow up the school. The plan made little sense, however -- and the boy's attempt to use a hijacked school bus as a getaway car ultimately ended a plot before it began Monday morning. The boy allegedly planned to ignite the school's propane tanks.  src

Bus-jacking Youths Found Guilty PENTICTON, British Columbia - (4/9/97) Two 16-year-old youths boarded a school bus last May and ordered the driver to take them to Ontario. There were 14 students onboard at the time. The duo used a knife and handgun in the hijacking src

November, 2, 1995, 6:50 p.m. EST MIAMI, Florida - A man claiming to be armed with a bomb hijacked a school bus Thursday and led police on a low- speed chase to Miami Beach, where he was shot and killed. The 11 fifth- and sixth-graders still on the bus escaped serious injury as did the woman driver, who was hailed as a hero by school officials.  The bus rammed a police cruiser on an expressway in the early stages of the chase and later hit a marked Dade County school district car before the chase ended in gunfire. There was no bomb, but police, aware of the hijacker's threat to blow up the bus, quickly dragged him away from the bus into a nearby alley. src the hijacker had just quit his job at Joe's Stone Crab restaurant and was demanding a conference with the Internal

Revenue Service in a dispute involving thousands of dollars in what the IRS was calling unpaid taxes. Police identified the man as Catalino Nick Sang, 42, a native of the Dominican Republic who was of Chinese descent. His immigration records  indicate he legally entered the United States on March 28, 1984, as a Chinese specialty cook.src