Army trainee hijacked school bus full of children in South Carolina
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Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott (photo via WOLO)
COLUMBIA, S.C. - A military trainee was arrested after he allegedly hijacked an elementary school bus with 18 children on board while carrying a rifle.
Fort Jackson Commander Brig. Gen. Milford H. Beagle Jr. confirmed the 23-year-old who commandeered the bus was a trainee at the military installation. The suspect is being charged with multiple kidnapping counts. His name has not been released.
Beagle said the weapon did not have ammunition, but the people on board the bus had no way of knowing that at the time.
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May 6, 2021 By Kenneil Mitchell
RICHLAND COUNTY, S.C. (WOLO) – Richland County deputies say they have arrested a Fort Jackson soldier who’s accused of hijacking a Richland 2 school bus this morning.
Authorities say it happened around 7 a.m.
According to investigators, the soldier, who is a trainee, was armed with a rifle and escaped Fort Jackson.
Sheriff Leon Lott says the suspect, who was dressed in physical training clothes, went to I-77 and tried to get into vehicles, before hijacking a school bus with 18 kids and the bus driver inside, at a bus stop on Old Percival Road.
An Army trainee escaped from Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and hijacked a bus
Jovan Collazo, 23, from New Jersey was armed with an unloaded M4 rifle
In his third week of training, he jumped a barbed wire fence to flee the base
He hijacked a school bus heading to Forest Lake Elementary School
The 18 children on board began asking questions and Collazo got frustrated
He let them off after a mile, struggled to drive the bus, then abandoned it
Collazo left his rifle in the bus, ran away and was arrested nearby
Collazo is charged with 19 counts of kidnapping, carjacking and armed robbery
April 30, 2021 at 9:18 AM
NEWARK, NJ The missing 15-year-old daughter of a Newark anti-violence community activist was found dead in South Carolina on Thursday, authorities announced.
Sanaa Amenhotep was kidnapped and killed after leaving her home in South Carolina, local sheriff Leon Lott said during a Thursday press conference. After the teen was reported missing from her home on April 5, her body was found the night of April 28 in the woods off in Lexington County, South Carolina, authorities said.
Following the announcement of her death, Newark officials and community leaders offered their condolences to the teen’s family and her father, Sharif Malik Amenhotep, a prominent social justice advocate in the city.