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A Fort Jackson trainee is in custody after a school bus full of students was hijacked in South Carolina, sheriff says
By Gregory Lemos, CNN
Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott speaks at a news conference Thursday. (CNN)A Fort Jackson trainee is in custody after allegedly hijacking a school bus full of students on its way to Forest Lake Elementary School in Columbia, South Carolina, the Richland County sheriff said.
Sheriff Leon Lott called the incident a very scary situation, but said none of the 18 children on board the bus were injured. The driver was also uninjured. 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. And that s what we had this morning, Lott told reporters at a news conference Thursday.
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The incident took place in South Carolina where an elementary school bus was hijacked by an armed man on Thursday. The man held the driver and the students as hostages. After some time, he let them off.
The accused was identified as 23-year-old New Jersey native Jovan Collazo. It was reported that he left Fort Jackson base at around 7 am with a rifle. He caused a commotion at Interstate 77 and targeted bikers on his way. Later he forcibly entered a school bus. In their investigation, the bus driver revealed to the police that the accused didn’t want to hurt them. Collazo had no intention of hurting the kids or the bus driver but only wanted to go to the neighbouring town. He wanted the driver to drive him there. They then started heading
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COLUMBIA, S.C. An armed soldier who ran off Fort Jackson was arrested Thursday morning after he boarded a bus with 18 elementary school children, Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said.
No students were injured, and neither was the school bus driver, Lott said at a news conference.
“Very scary situation this morning,” Lott said. “Fortunately it turned out well.”
The soldier, whose name has not been publicly released, was armed with a rifle when he got on a bus headed for Forest Lake Elementary School in the Richland 2 district.
2021-05-07 07:35:50 GMT2021-05-07 15:35:50(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
WASHINGTON, May 6 (Xinhua) A U.S. Army trainee belonging to Fort Jackson in Columbia, South Carolina, was arrested Thursday after hijacking a school bus full of students en route to an elementary school.
According to Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott, none of the 18 children were injured after they and the bus driver also uninjured were held hostage in the morning by an individual later identified by Fort Jackson as 23-year-old Jovan Collazo from New Jersey. The incident lasted about an hour.
It all started when Collazo, dressed in a physical training uniform and armed with an M4 rifle, jumped a fence and left the military post at around 7:00 a.m. ET (1100 GMT). Lott said the trainee initially tried to flag people down and get into cars, eventually ending up at a bus stop where the children were boarding a school bus that he also got on.
The Associated Press
This image released by the Richland County, S.C., Sheriffâs Department, shows Jovan Collazo, an Army trainee, who was arrested and charged with dozens of crimes after authorities say he boarded a South Carolina school bus with a gun Thursday, May 6, 2021, and held the driver and elementary students hostage before letting them off the bus. (Richland County Sheriffâs Department via AP)
COLUMBIA, S.C. An Army trainee has been arrested and charged with dozens of crimes after authorities say he boarded a South Carolina school bus with a gun Thursday and held the driver and elementary students hostage before letting them off the bus. Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said the incident started at around 7 a.m. near Fort Jackson, the U.S. Army’s largest basic training facility, located in Columbia. The trainee, dressed in physical training clothes, “ran off post and escaped” with a rifle from the installation, Lott said. Deputies then started receivin