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10-year-old boy recounts harrowing moment armed man hijacked school bus
ABC News ^ | 07 May 2021 | Emily Shapiro

Posted on 05/08/2021 9:57:10 PM PDT by blueplum

Ten-year-old Ke'aundre James was on the bus headed to school when he "heard yelling and cussing in the front" -- and spotted a man with a rifle.

The gunman "was telling the bus driver, 'Close the doors, take me to the next town over. Go, go, go.' And stuff like that," Ke'aundre told ABC News.

So Ke'aundre called his parents...

...The suspect, a 23-year-old Fort Jackson trainee, Jovan Collazo, was taken into custody.

Collazo's Army-issued rifle did not have ammunition...

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: army; banglist; bushijackings; fortjackson; ftjackson; jovancollazo; keaundrejames; southcarolina
no word why he was on the run
1 posted on 05/08/2021 9:57:10 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: blueplum

I’m glad the bus driver and all of the kids were not harmed.
Meanwhile, I’m trying to deal with this name:
“Ke’aundre”....Hmm.. Okay.
It’s original.


2 posted on 05/08/2021 10:03:53 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: blueplum

MPs big time fail.


3 posted on 05/08/2021 10:15:54 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: shanover
MPs big time fail.

Something tells me that the MP's are hard at work rectifying their mistake.
4 posted on 05/08/2021 10:19:29 PM PDT by krogers58
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To: blueplum

Who did the guy think he was, an Andy Robinson hijacking the bus in “Dirty Harry”?


5 posted on 05/08/2021 10:23:02 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: blueplum

Easy on everything.

He wanted out. Took a rifle and hijacked a school bus.

He is out. Gun wasn’t loaded and he knew that.

He traded basic training for jail.


6 posted on 05/08/2021 10:38:06 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: blueplum

Bad writing by Emily Shapiro

here is more of it:

https://abcnews.go.com/author/emily_shapiro


7 posted on 05/08/2021 11:01:11 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: blueplum

I read a different article that said he hijacked the bus to get back to new jersey. You’d think it would be the opposite of that.


8 posted on 05/08/2021 11:54:16 PM PDT by Trillian
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Boot who cracked? Was the drill sergeant mean to him?


9 posted on 05/09/2021 12:48:00 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("The impossible happens all the time. You just have to believe." Will Robinson)
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To: blueplum

Maybe one day. But currently, there aren’t many people named “Ke’aundre” that are successful in anything other than sports and rap. I’m not even sure about that.

Why do mothers give their kids these idiotic names? He’s not named after his grandfather or a war hero. How does one come up with such crap?

If your concern is racism, which is all the rage right now...why would you start your kid out on the wrong foot? From the start, any employer, school dean etc would assume he’s black. If we truly are such a racist society, his future is doomed from the get go.


10 posted on 05/09/2021 12:48:16 AM PDT by albie
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
Who did the guy think he was, an Andy Robinson hijacking the bus in “Dirty Harry”?

LOL. I remember that. Andy Robinson was good at playing a bad guy. Great line, Well, do ya punk?

11 posted on 05/09/2021 1:05:58 AM PDT by Mark17 (Father of US Air Force combat pilot )
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To: blueplum

Perhaps he just wanted to get back to his hood.


12 posted on 05/09/2021 2:25:57 AM PDT by FES0844
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
Who did the guy think he was, an Andy Robinson hijacking the bus in “Dirty Harry”?











13 posted on 05/09/2021 3:49:03 AM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! CHINA-Russia collusion! Click ETL...)
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14 posted on 05/09/2021 3:53:03 AM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! CHINA-Russia collusion! Click ETL...)
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To: blueplum

Dirty Harry plot?


15 posted on 05/09/2021 3:54:06 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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To: Trillian

There’s a reason all the toll roads are free going into NJ, but not to get back out. Only a nut would be homesick for that place.


16 posted on 05/09/2021 8:16:01 AM PDT by BykrBayb (Lung cancer free since 11/9/07. Colon cancer free since 7/7/15. Obama free since 1/20/17. PTL ~ Þ )
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