that sunny spring day, he s in for a shock. captured on his bus equipped with eight security cameras. it all starts when this young mother and her 2-year-old son get on the route 47 bus and run into another passenger, lafanus pickett. i got on near seventh and market. as the bus winds its way through the philadelphia streets, pickett notices the little boy. he was running up and down the aisle. pickett says he hears the mom tell her son to sit down. and she begins spanking him like he was some sort of animal. pickett leans forward and reprimands the young mom and i said, he s a child. let him be a child. you shouldn t be spanking him like that. if you continue to do it, i m going to turn you in for child endangerment. she was like, you don t know me. this is my son. i will deal with him any way i choose to.
the bus driver, trying to escape the firestorm. they re targeting mr. pickett inside the bus, but targeting is a very loose word in this case, because essentially what they re doing is spraying the bus. i was just so scared for my life. i ve been shot before. i know what a bullet felt like. i did not want to die that day. the footage then shows a terrifying moment as an elderly woman stands frozen in the middle of the aisle. she hears the gunfire apparently and bends down and a shot goes through the window and hits a seat right next to her. desmond jones takes his first opportunity to speed away. had she been seated upright, it would have gone through her at first. the woman is lucky to be spared after a total of nine bullets are fired into the bus. throughout the ambush, jones, an army veteran, keeps his cool. the passengers pretty much
as she s exiting, another young man is coming toward the bus and she says something to him. from what the prosecutor said, she pointed out mr. pickett and said i want you to shoot that guy. as the mom and her son get off, one man goes in the front door and gestures for everyone to come to the front steps. meanwhile, his friend is busy pulling out a huge rifle he s had hidden down the leg of his pants. soon he s joined by the man at the front of the bus who pulls out his own semiautomatic pistol, and they open fire. just absolute pandemonium in that bus. and these people are terrified. you see them racing to the front of the bus, hoping they can escape there. they see a gunman out the front door. they re all piled up in the stairwell. it s just utter panic. as bullets rip through the bus, lafanus pickett climbs on
bus and she says something to him. from what the prosecutor said, she pointed out mr. pickett and said i want you to shoot that guy. as the mom and her son get off, one man goes in the front door and gestures for everyone to come to the front steps. meanwhile, his friend is busy pulling out a huge rifle he s had hidden down the leg of his pants. soon he s joined by the man at the front of the bus who pulls out his own semiautomatic pistol, and they open fire. just absolute pandemonium in that bus. and these people are terrified. you see them racing to the front of the bus, hoping they can escape there. they see a gunman out the front door. they re all piled up in the stairwell. it s just utter panic. as bullets rip through the bus, lafanus pickett climbs on the bus driver, trying to escape the firestorm. they re targeting mr. pickett
captured on his bus equipped with eight security cameras. it all starts when this young mother and her 2-year-old son get on the route 47 bus and run into another passenger, lafanus pickett. i got on near seventh and market. as the bus winds its way through the philadelphia streets, pickett notices the little boy. he was running up and down the aisle. pickett says he hears the mom tell her son to sit down. and she begins spanking him like he was some sort of animal. pickett leans forward and reprimands the young mom i said, he s a child. let him be a child. you shouldn t be spanking him like that. if you continue to do it, i m going to turn you in for child endangerment. she was like, you don t know me. this is my son. i will deal with him any way i choose to. for whatever reason, he