Daily Times
May 8, 2021
Students in many US states are just returning to classrooms after months of remote learning due to the coronavirus pandemic but the move back has come with an unfortunate uptick in gun violence.
From the first hours of Thursday, it felt like Groundhog Day at 7:00 am an Army trainee carrying a rifle hijacked a bus full of elementary school students near Fort Jackson, South Carolina for reasons unknown, before letting them go unharmed.
Arrested a short time later, the 23-year-old man was charged with 19 counts of kidnapping, carjacking and other crimes.
“Probably one of the scariest calls that we can get in law enforcement … 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,” local sheriff Leon Lott told the ABC station.
May 7, 2021
RICHLAND CO., S.C. – We’re learning more about the soldier-in-training who hijacked a school bus full of kids with a gun. It happened in Richland County, South Carolina, near Columbia. Now, his army leaders say he didn’t have malicious intentions.
23-year-old Jovan Collazo waived his right to a bond hearing Friday afternoon. He faces 19 counts of kidnapping, armed robbery, carjacking, and more after police say the soldier-in-training left Fort Jackson with his army-issued rifle Thursday and forced his way on to a school bus with 18 kids, and the driver, on board.
Richland Co., SC Sheriff Leon Lott says, “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.”
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Sheriff identifies Fort Jackson soldier accused of hijacking school bus
COLUMBIA, S.C. The Richland County Sheriff’s Department has identified the Fort Jackson soldier accused of hijacking a school bus Thursday.
Sheriff Leon Lott said 23-year-old Jovan Collazo of New Jersey will be charged with 19 counts of kidnapping, armed robbery, carjacking, pointing and presenting a firearm, and other offenses.
Collazo ran away from his unit on the army installation in the morning and began trying to get rides from cars on Interstate 77, authorities said.
He walked to Percival Road, where he boarded the bus with 18 children going to Forest Lake Elementary, Lott said at a news conference. Armed with a rifle, the recruit told the bus driver to drive him to the next town, Lott said, but then made the driver and the kids get off the bus. He then drove the bus himself a few miles up the road.
ABC Columbia
May 6, 2021 5:55 PM EDT
COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO)– Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott provided an update on the investigation into an armed Fort Jackson soldier who left the fort and hijacked a Richland Two school bus Thursday morning around 7 a.m.. ABC Columbia’s Josh Berry was at the press conference.
Sheriff Leon Lott released the identity of the soldier who was arrested for hijacking the school bus. Sheriff Lott says they arrested 23-year-old Jovan Collazo, of New Jersey. Authorities say he has been charged with 19 counts of kidnapping, armed robbery, carjacking, pointing and presenting a firearm, use of a weapon during a violent crime and unlawful carry of a weapon on school property. Officials say Collazo was booked at Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center.