COLUMBIA, S.C.
An Army trainee has waived his first chance to appear in court on dozens of charges related to allegations he held a bus full of South Carolina elementary school students and its driver hostage at gunpoint.
A bond hearing had been scheduled Friday for Jovan Collazo, but court officials said he waived that appearance, which means he remains in the Richland County jail. Another court hearing is scheduled for later this month.
Collazo has been in jail since he was arrested Thursday on two dozen charges, including 19 counts of kidnapping. Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said that Collazo a trainee at Fort Jackson, the U.S. Army’s largest basic training facility, in Columbia “ran off post and escaped” with an Army-issued M4 rifle.
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A white Army soldier was charged with third-degree assault Wednesday after he was caught on video shoving a young Black man and telling him he was “in the wrong neighborhood.”
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