police are waiting nearby and take the woman into custody when she steps off the bus, and bingham is reunited with his sons. we at the department felt very, very lucky that this good samaritan who took it upon himself to intercede probably stopped a potential tragedy from occurring. michael chitwood, superintendent for the upper darby police department oversees the investigation. once you look at the tape, you see there s about 30 people on that bus at any given time. there s certainly several young children. who knows how far the escalation would have gotten with an angry person somewhat out of control with a loaded gun. the gun wielding woman is identified as 58-year-old cordelia chisham. police determine she doesn t have a permit for that fully loaded pistol she s packing. when she got here to the police station she s distraught. here s a woman 58 years old.
police station she was distraught. here s a woman 58 years old. had no prior criminal record. apparently had a job. this type of incident does not fit into her whole persona. obviously, something pushed her button that night. chisham pleads guilty to assault and terroristic threats. she serves six months in county jail. as for the good samaritan, he has no regrets about stepping in that day. i don t know, if it had gone wrong, i guess it would have been ugly. i mean, i don t know if she would have been shot. who would expect to end up in such a dramatic situation when setting foot on a public bus? certainly not rasheen bingham, but he did learn from the experience. the main nugget of wisdom he took away, let s just call it cell phone etiquette. i would not pull out my cell phone and talk in front of miss chisham, no, not at all.
i guess cooler heads prevail, she decides to get off the bus at that time. police are waiting nearby and take the woman into custody when she steps off the bus, and bingham is reunited with his sons. we at the department felt very, very lucky that this good samaritan, who took it upon himself to intercede, probably stopped a potential tragedy from occurring. michael chitwood, superintendent of the upper darby police department oversees the investigation. once you look at the tape, you see there s about 30 people on that bus at any given time. and there s certainly several young children. who knows how far the escalation would have gotten with an angry person somewhat out of control with a loaded gun. the gun wielding woman is identified as 58-year-old cordelia chisham. police determine she doesn t have a permit for that fully loaded pistol she s packing. when she got here to the
take the woman into custody when she steps off the bus, and bingham is reunited with his sons. we at the department felt very, very lucky that this good samaritan who took it upon himself to intercede probably stopped a potential tragedy from occurring. michael chitwood, superintendent for the upper darby police department oversees the investigation. once you look at the tape, you see there s about 30 people on that bus at any given time. there s certainly several young children. who knows how far the escalation would have gotten with an angry person somewhat out of control with a loaded gun. the gun wielding woman is identified as 58-year-old cordelia chisham. police determine she doesn t have a permit for that fully loaded pistol she s packing. when she got here to the police station she s distraught. here s a woman 58 years old.
had no prior criminal record. apparently had a job. this type of incident does not fit into her whole persona. obviously, something pushed her button that night. chisham pleads guilty to assault and terroristic threats. she serves six months in county jail. as for the good samaritan, he has no regrets about stepping in that day. i don t know, if it had gone wrong, i guess it would have been ugly. i don t know if she would have been shot. who would expect to end up in such a dramatic situation when setting foot on a public bus? certainly not rasheen bingham, but he did learn from the experience. the main nugget of wisdom he took away, let s just call it cell phone etiquette. i would not pull out my cell phone and talk in front of miss chisham, no, not at all. have to wait a bit longer to make that phone call.