CUL DE SAC--Police held nine teens and seized a revolver after a gang clash in Cul de Sac that led to a shooting from a school bus Friday afternoon.
A gang from the district allegedly attacked the school bus near Cake House bakery and supermarket. A passenger retaliated, firing at least one gunshot from the bus window, police said. Witnesses remember hearing two gunshots. One didn’t come from the bus.
A stray bullet struck a car’s windshield and lodged in its headrest.
Witnesses told police that young men on L.B. Scott Road had barraged the bus with bottles. The driver decided to keep driving to Philipsburg “to avoid the worst,” police spokesman Inspector Ricardo Henson said in police statement Friday.
Police intercepted the school bus on Bush Road near Save-A-Lot home supplies, escorted all of its teenage passengers out of the bus and searched them. Officers found a .38-caliber Smith & Wesson revolver in a girl’s schoolbag stuffed next to books and other school supplies.
G.D.’s bag was hidden under the school bus seat, Henson said. The gun had five bullets and one spent shell in the chamber.
Police confiscated the gun, along with two machetes and three knives they found on the bus.
Police are investigating.
