1 dead after hijacked bus speeds through LA with driver held at gunpoint [View all]

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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

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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.