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U.S. NEWS Tuesday 4 February 2020

1 dead, 5 wounded in shooting on Greyhound bus in California

By STEFANIE DAZIO Forty-three people were
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A aboard, including 6- and
man cursing and muttering 8-year-old children, who
incoherently opened fire were not hurt.
aboard a packed Grey- The dead passenger was
hound bus in Southern Cali- identified as a 51-year-old
fornia early Monday, killing woman from Colombia.
one person and wounding Two victims were hospital-
five others in a seemingly ized with serious injuries,
random attack before pas- Pennings said. The remain-
sengers disarmed him, au- ing passengers were later
thorities and a witness said. driven to Northern Califor-
The driver of the Los An- nia on another bus.
geles-to-San Francisco bus Passenger Mark Grabban,
pulled off onto the shoul- 29, told The Associated
der, where some of those Press that the gunman had
aboard led the killer off been sitting with his leg
the vehicle, and he was sticking out into the aisle,
quickly taken into custody, muttering to himself inco-
California Highway Patrol herently.
Sgt. Brian Pennings said. "He was just saying weird
The driver continued on to stuff like 'you don't know
the next exit as passengers me like that,' 'wait til we get
performed first aid on the to the station,' 'get away Investigators are seen outside of a Greyhound bus after a passenger was killed on board on Mon-
wounded, he said. from the dude in the striped day, Feb. 3, 2020 in Lebec, Calif.
The motive for the shoot- shirt,' " Grabban said in a se- Associated Press
ing was not immediately ries of Instagram messages.
known, and there was no in- Suddenly, the man started down to the floor." Pennings said the driver's Grabban, who was sitting
dication the gunman knew cursing and shooting, Grab- Then, silence fell. The in- actions "were very appro- near the back of the bus
any of the victims, Pennings ban said. Grabban hid be- jured passengers began priate and one could say with his girlfriend, picked up
said. He said several am- neath the seat in front of moaning, and others start- heroic." The officer gave no the gun's empty magazine
munition magazines were him. He said the gunman ed panicking. It was dark immediate details on how clip and handed it to the
discovered along with the seemed to fire eight or nine outside and they couldn't the passengers disarmed driver. A casing ended up
gun. shots that "seemed to go see what the gunman was the killer or made him get on Grabban's lap, and he
The bus was traveling on on forever." He added: "I doing after he got off the off the bus. noticed a bullet hole in the
Interstate 5 near the small was waiting for one to hit bus. Grabban said the driv- Passengers told Grabban floor next to him.
mountain community of me." er of the stopped vehicle someone wrestled the gun "I saw the blood on the
Lebec, about 70 miles (113 "I thought I was shot be- asked over the loudspeak- away from the shooter, but floor of the aisle," Grabban
kilometers) northwest of Los cause I felt a rush of heat er if anyone had been hurt he didn't witness it, he said. told NBC News. "I looked
Angeles, when the passen- on the back of my head as and did not immediately No immediate charges to the woman on the left,
ger started shooting with a I went down," he said. "But pull away. "Everyone was were brought against the and she wasn't responding,
semi-automatic handgun I guess I just smashed my screaming at him to drive the suspect, whose name wasn't moving or anything.
shortly before 1:30 a.m. head on the seat as I went off," Grabban said. was not released. She was lifeless."q

2 women killed, child hurt in

shooting at Texas dormitory

COMMERCE, Texas (AP) — Rock residence hall on the on Twitter. But the university
Two women were killed and campus in Commerce, said that even with the lift-
a child was wounded in a about 65 miles (105 kilome- ing of the recommenda-
shooting Monday morning ters) northeast of Dallas. He tion, the residence hall and
at a university dormitory in said a boy about 2 years the surrounding area was
Texas, officials said. old was also in the room still blocked off due to the
A recommendation for stu- and was taken to a hospi- ongoing investigation.
dents and employees to tal, where he was in stable The university said the stu-
shelter in place was lifted condition. dent center would be
early Monday afternoon Vaughn did not take ques- available for displaced stu-
at Texas A&M University- tions after a news confer- dents and that counselors Law enforcement officers gather outside of Pride Rock resi-
dence hall following a shooting, Monday, Feb. 3, 2020, at Texas
Commerce, and police ence and did not say if the were available there. A&M University-Commerce in Commerce, Texas.
said there appeared to be women were students. Larry Cooper III, a freshman Associated Press
no other threats. Officials The university canceled who lives in the Pride Rock
have not identified the sus- classes after the shooting residence hall, told the Dal- residence hall. Last October, two people
pected shooter. and later said classes will las Morning News that he "There's police blocking the were killed and a dozen
University police Chief Bry- not resume until Thursday. left his room Monday just doorways, but other than others injured in an off-cam-
an Vaughn said officers re- The university lifted the shel- before the shelter-in-place that we're all just kind of sit- pus shooting at a home-
sponding to a call at about ter-in-place recommenda- was announced. He said ting in and waiting on the coming and Halloween
10:17 a.m. found two dead tion about an hour and a he was waiting in a friend's news to happen," Cooper party involving Texas A&M-
women in a room at Pride half after it was announced room on the first floor of the said. Commerce students.q