May 7, 2021
RICHLAND CO., S.C. – We’re learning more about the soldier-in-training who hijacked a school bus full of kids with a gun. It happened in Richland County, South Carolina, near Columbia. Now, his army leaders say he didn’t have malicious intentions.
23-year-old Jovan Collazo waived his right to a bond hearing Friday afternoon. He faces 19 counts of kidnapping, armed robbery, carjacking, and more after police say the soldier-in-training left Fort Jackson with his army-issued rifle Thursday and forced his way on to a school bus with 18 kids, and the driver, on board.
Richland Co., SC Sheriff Leon Lott says, “Probably one of the scariest calls we can get in law enforcement and as a school district is that a school bus has been hijacked with kids on it with someone with a gun.”