A school bus driver in Minneapolis was shot in the head Wednesday as three students, all under the age of 10, were still on board, according to reports.
The Minneapolis Police Department says the shooting happened around 2:15 p.m. near the intersection of 37th and Girard avenues, in the city’s Camden neighborhood.
The unidentified driver was taken to a local hospital with injuries policOfficers found the driver with a gunshot wound to his head, although they said that injury did not appear to be life threatening. Officers aided the driver until paramedics arrived and drove him to a local hospital. None of the children were injured.
Metropolitan Transportation Network, the company that operates the bus, said the driver’s family is with him at the hospital. The company said that it confirmed with police and Minneapolis Public Schools that the students made it home safe.
Investigators are searching for suspects, and no arrests have been made. It’s unclear if the shooter was in a car or on foot.
City Council Member LaTrisha Vetaw said, “Parents shouldn’t have to worry about their children riding in school buses.”
“As parents, you give your children up. You send them to school, and they should come home the way you sent them,” Vetaw said.
The shooting came less than two hours after a teenage boy was shot in north Minneapolis. A source told WCCO’s Mike Max that the victim, who is in grave condition, is a student at North Community High School and plays on the Polars football team.
As expected, some were quick to blame guns for the violent crime spike in Minneapolis.
But not everyone has forgotten the massive “defund the police” movement pushed by so many of the Minneapolis’ progressive politicians, including at least nine members of the City Council and Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, which even Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison ultimately admitted was “not a good thing.”
