A spokesperson for the Boone County, Kentucky Sheriff’s Department stated that a 14-year-old student had been suspended from school and taken into custody by deputies after he shot out a window of a school bus when it stopped at an intersection in Burlington.
The spokesperson stated that no one was injured in the incident.
26-year-old Stephen Decker boarded a school bus during a stop and told the driver that he had a gun and a bomb. The man demanded $25,000 in cash. The driver called 911 and deputies from the Henry County Sheriff’s Department responded and took the man into custody. No injuries were reported. No weapons were found when Mr. Decker was taken into custody.
School bus hostage situations are rare in the United States but there have been other incidents around the United States. School bus safety is a challenging issue because school buses are so mobile and routes often cover large geographic regions across the country. School bus hostage situations in other countries have often been acts of school bus terrorism.
15-year-old Sierra LaMar never got on the school bus and failed to show up for school. Eleven hours later, her mother received an automated notification that the girl had missed all of her classes that day. Her panicked mother called police and authorities are still searching for the girl.
Relatives and child-safety advocates assert that advancements in technology make it practical for school officials to communicate more quickly with parents when their children miss classes. Marc Klaas from the KlaasKids Foundation, suggests that this case illustrates the need for this type of change. His daughter, Polly Klaas was abducted from his home and killed in 1994.
Some school officials counter that the notification systems are designed to help better communicate with parents and to reduce truancy – not to enhance the safety of students on their way to school.
A student was hit by a van as he was crossing the street to get to school in Brockton, Massachusetts. Traffic safety is a concern for schools, which often pose unique and varied challenges. I keynoted a statewide school safety conference for the Massachusetts Departments of Education and Emergency Management in Brockton, and clearly recall an educator who served in an area public school district for more than forty years who attended the event in spite of a blizzard.
This incident highlights how school safety encompasses many different issues and there have been a number of students and school employees who have been seriously injured and killed in these types of situations. We recommend that school officials consider seeking assistance from local and state law enforcement officers to help them periodically review the movement of vehicles and pedestrians move to and from their schools each day.
Two school buses were damaged beyond usability by a tornado in Henryville, Indiana recently and the owner of the private contract bus service Alice Hunt, told WHAS11 news that her insurance carrier had offered the company far less than it would cost to replace the school buses with used buses with comparable mileage because they were valuing the buses based on year model without consideration for value.
The insurance carrier is reviewing the claim.
According to the AP, student John Sanderson, 21 was shot at Evans Residence Hall at about 10 P.M. Saturday at Mississippi State University. Mr. Sanderson was transported to an area hospital where he died.
Authorities are still searching for a suspect – who was seen fleeing the area after the shooting. The university has about 20,000 students and the university website states that the area around the campus is a low – crime neighborhood. This school shooting illustrates the fact that even colleges and universities with low crime rates can quickly become the scene of campus violence.
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