Richland Two parents react after school bus hijacking by Fort Jackson trainee
Richland Two parents react after school bus hijacking by Fort Jackson trainee By Drew Aunkst | May 6, 2021 at 11:31 PM EDT - Updated May 6 at 11:31 PM
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - A soldier in training at Fort Jackson has been arrested after hijacking a school bus while armed with a gun, police said.
Officials say the school bus was taking kids to Forest Lake Elementary School when 23-year-old Jovan Collazo of New Jersey entered the bus with a gun.
Parents in the district reacted to the news Thursday.
âIt was kind of a shock, we were in traffic on the way to school this morning and we saw the police go by,â Kristin Shaughnessy, parent to two children that attend Forest Lake Elementary, said.
Army trainee from N.J. hijacked school bus in South Carolina, authorities say
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This image released by the Richland County, S.C., Sheriff’s 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 Sheriff’s Department via AP
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An Army trainee from New Jersey 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.
Armed U.S. Army Trainee Hijacks South Carolina School Bus Full Of Children
Jovan Collazo “got a little frustrated” and ordered the bus stopped after the children peppered him with questions, said Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) 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.
During a news conference, 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 receiving calls about someone standing on a nearby interstate flagging down cars.
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Washington, May 7 : A US Army trainee belonging to Fort Jackson in Columbia, South Carolina, was arrested after hijacking a school bus full of students.
According to Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott, none of the 18 children were injured after they and the bus driver were held hostage on Thursday by an individual later identified by Fort Jackson as 23-year-old Jovan Collazo from New Jersey, reports Xinhua news agency.