1 dead after hijacked bus speeds through LA with driver held at gunpoint

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Source: ABC

One person is dead after a Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus was hijacked and the driver was forced to flee police at gunpoint before authorities were eventually able to apprehend the suspect, according to authorities.

The incident began at approximately 12:45 a.m. when the Los Angeles Police Department received radio calls about a disturbance on a bus in the area of Manchester Street and Figueroa Street in southern Los Angeles, Deputy Chief Donald Graham said in a briefing Wednesday morning.



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Bus' panic button helped alert police

Police responded around 12:45 a.m. to reports of a gunman on the Metro bus, Graham said, adding an emergency panic button in the bus also alerted police.

Between initial 911 reports and when police found the bus stopped around 117th and Figueroa streets, several people were seen exiting it, he said. The bus then drove away, leading police through downtown Los Angeles

Bus passengers frantically texted loved ones as gunman hijacked an Atlanta commuter bus during June rush hour
The bus driver continued to operate the bus "in as safe a manner as he could under the circumstances, with police trailing him for over an hour," Graham said, calling the city's bus operators "civil service heroes."

The bus then finally was stopped near Alameda and 6th streets, he said.

The passenger rescued by the SWAT team was found barricaded in the back of the bus, "shaken but unharmed," Graham said.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. Adding a link:

Gunman hijacks L.A. Metro bus with hostages; wild chase ends with 1 killed

By Joseph Serna and Richard Winton
Sept. 25, 2024 Updated 7:44 AM PT

A gunman hijacked a Metro bus and led Los Angeles police on a wild chase that ended with one passenger dead in downtown L.A. early Wednesday, according to police. ... For more than an hour, a cavalry of officers in police SUVs followed the bus as it slowly made its way from Vermont Knolls in South Los Angeles north into downtown, where it ultimately came to a stop after police used spike strips on the tires and surrounded it with a SWAT team after 2 a.m.

“This operator continued to operate the bus in as safe a manner as he could under the circumstances, with the police trailing him for an hour before the spike strips finally took effect,” said Deputy Chief Donald Graham with the LAPD’s Transit Services Division during a news conference.

Video from the incident showed a series of small explosions around the bus stopped near Alameda and 6th streets then police storming inside with shields. A passenger escaped through a window as police stormed the bus while video showed the bus driver climbing out of a window and running to safety behind an armored vehicle while officers move in.

The chase began near South Figueroa Street and Manchester Avenue about 12:45 after police received 911 calls related to the bus, LAPD Officer Rosario Cervantes said. Police said the suspect got on the bus, argued with the driver and shot a passenger as others on the bus ran out. ... As calls to 911 began to flood into dispatchers, the bus driver hit the panic button inside the vehicle, alerting police and triggering the emergency message on the light display, police said.

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[twodogsbarking]

2. Sorry for the life lost. Seems like it was handled in the best way possible. Thanks to those who were involved.

[enid602]

3. Los Angeles

“ Bus passengers frantically texted loved ones as gunman hijacked an Atlanta commuter bus during June rush hour”

This s passage has a troubling, as DTLA is not very close to Atlanta,

[Attilatheblond]

4. Perhaps Los Angles has rented charter busses from the company Atlanta that rents charter vehicles?

[sl8]

6. That paragraph isn't part of this story.

It's the link text from a link to a "related" story, in Atlanta, Ga.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/12/us/atlanta-bus-hijacking-how-it-unfolded

[zanana1]

5. This reminds me of the movie "Speed" with Sandra Bullock.

[Stargazer99]

7. why does this nation have so many sick people?

[EX500rider]

8. 337 million people

If 1/2 of 1% are crazy you still have 1.6 million crazy people

[iscooterliberally]

9. I'm pretty sure most of them are in my neck of the woods too.

I live in Florida.