1 dead, 6 wounded in California Greyhound bus shooting, suspect in custody

[Dennis Donovan]

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/03/us/greyhound-bus-shooting.html

By Alan Yuhas
Feb. 3, 2020
Updated 1:31 p.m. ET

A shooting on a Greyhound bus near Los Angeles early Monday left one person dead and five injured, the police said, adding that a suspect was in custody after the driver and passengers persuaded him to get off the bus.

The police received a call about a gunman shooting on the bus, heading from Los Angeles to the Bay Area, at about 1:27 a.m., Sgt. Brian Pennings of the California Highway Patrol told reporters on Monday.

He said that several dozen passengers were on the bus at the time, and that the driver immediately pulled to the shoulder of the highway, Interstate 5. The driver then persuaded the gunman to get off the bus, Sergeant Pennings said. “The suspect voluntarily got off the bus, leaving his handgun behind,” he said.

The sergeant later said that the passengers and driver, together, “were able to get the suspect off of the bus without the weapon.”

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Previous reporting:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/six-wounded-california-greyhound-bus-shooting-suspect-custody-n1128581


A man shot six people aboard a Greyhound bus in California on Monday. KNBC

Feb. 3, 2020, 8:38 AM EST / Updated Feb. 3, 2020, 8:43 AM EST
By Elisha Fieldstadt

Six people were injured in a shooting on a Greyhound bus traveling from Los Angeles to the Bay Area early Monday morning, officials said.

An unidentified man was taken into custody, according to California Highway Patrol communications supervisor Steve Loftus. Investigators have not determined a motive.

Police began getting calls from passengers on the bus, traveling on Interstate 5, at about 1:30 a.m. local time, Loftus said.

The bus had left Los Angeles about an hour earlier and following the shooting, the bus driver pulled off at the nearest exit, in Grapevine, south of Bakersfield.

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No word of deaths, but how terrifying to be trapped on a bus with shots flying about.

[MineralMan]

1. When I was 10 years old, my parents put me and my 9-year-old sister

on a Greyhound bus going from Los Angeles to Phoenix. We were going to spend a week with my maternal grandparents. They saw us get on the bus, and the grandparents saw us get off the bus in Phoenix. In between, the bus made several stops, including a lunch stop where we bought sandwiches at the restaurant in a bus station.

That was in 1955. Nobody was worried about someone shooting guns in the bus. Nobody was worried about anyone bothering two children traveling without an adult. When we got off the bus to get lunch, the bus driver made sure we made it back on the bus.

Times have changed, apparently.