Father of 2 girls on hijacked school bus: âHow does this happen?â
RAW VIDEO: Father of children on hijacked school bus calls for answers By Patrick Phillips | May 13, 2021 at 9:15 AM EDT - Updated May 13 at 12:46 PM
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - The father of two young girls who were on a school bus hijacked in Columbia last week says he wants accountability and answers as to how an armed Fort Jackson soldier could have boarded the bus at all.
LIVE 5 ALERT DESK: Parents of students about a school bus hijacked last week in Columbia are demanding answers about what led to the incident. MORE https://bit.ly/33K5o1mPosted by Live 5 News on Thursday, May 13, 2021
Two charged in Columbia shooting that killed 62-year-old while sleeping, police say
Two charged in Columbia shooting that killed 62-year-old while sleeping, police say By WIS News 10 Staff | May 12, 2021 at 12:43 PM EDT - Updated May 12 at 5:05 PM
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Two men have been charged in connection with a fatal shooting in Columbia, officials say.
On Wednesday, Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott held a press conference to provide new developments in a murder investigation from April 6 on Devoe Drive.
According to Sheriff Lott, Charlie Jackson Jr., 62, was sleeping in his bed when he was shot and killed on Devoe Drive. Lott says Jackson had “nothing to do with the shooting.”
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COLUMBIA, S.C. An armed soldier who ran off Fort Jackson was arrested Thursday morning after he boarded a bus with 18 elementary school children, Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said.
No students were injured, and neither was the school bus driver, Lott said at a news conference.
“Very scary situation this morning,” Lott said. “Fortunately it turned out well.”
The soldier, whose name has not been publicly released, was armed with a rifle when he got on a bus headed for Forest Lake Elementary School in the Richland 2 district.
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May 6, 2021 4:25 PM EDT
Courtesy: Richland County Sheriff’s Department
COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO)– On Thursday afternoon, Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott released the identity of a Fort Jackson soldier who was arrested for hijacking a school bus at around 7 a.m.
Sheriff Lott says they arrested 23-year-old Jovan Collazo. Authorities say he has been charged with 19 counts of kidnapping, armed robbery, carjacking, pointing and presenting a firearm, use of a weapon during a violent crime and unlawful carry of a weapon on school property.
Investigators say around 7 a.m., Collazo ran off of Fort Jackson and ultimately to a bus stop on Old Percival Road armed with a rifle, where he got on the school bus bound for Forest Lake Elementary.
2021-05-07 07:35:50 GMT2021-05-07 15:35:50(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
WASHINGTON, May 6 (Xinhua) A U.S. Army trainee belonging to Fort Jackson in Columbia, South Carolina, was arrested Thursday after hijacking a school bus full of students en route to an elementary school.
According to Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott, none of the 18 children were injured after they and the bus driver also uninjured were held hostage in the morning by an individual later identified by Fort Jackson as 23-year-old Jovan Collazo from New Jersey. The incident lasted about an hour.
It all started when Collazo, dressed in a physical training uniform and armed with an M4 rifle, jumped a fence and left the military post at around 7:00 a.m. ET (1100 GMT). Lott said the trainee initially tried to flag people down and get into cars, eventually ending up at a bus stop where the children were boarding a school bus that he also got on.