The Fort Jackson private wanted to go home, so he ‘hijacked’ a school bus full of kids, officials say
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Pvt. Jovan Collazo, a Fort Jackson Army trainee. was arrested after authorities say he 'hijacked' a school bus full of students in an attempt to go home. (Richland County Sheriff’s Department via AP)
Third-week Army trainee Pvt. Jovan Collazo was desperately trying to get home from Fort Jackson when he left the South Carolina installation early Thursday morning wearing a PT uniform, bearing a rifle, and hijacked a Richland County school bus, authorities say.
Collazo was arrested later that day and charged with 19 counts of kidnapping and single counts of armed robbery with a deadly weapon, carjacking without great bodily harm, pointing and presenting firearms at a person, carrying weapons on school property and possession of weapon during a violent crime, according to jail records.