

We are also looking at best practices and additional processes to implement for transportation staff. PGCPS Communications Director Meghan Gebreselassie said in a statement: "Safety and security staff and transportation supervisory staff attended a training session for this type of incident and we are coordinating with local law enforcement to inform our personnel on the proper response. Additionally, we are working to schedule training with the PGCPS and the PGPD to inform staff of the PD's response. We’re already behind the 8-ball."īrower told FOX 5 she began driving for Prince George’s in 2020 because she loves kids but does not think she’ll return. "We want the county to take these safety recommendations seriously and make some changes now. "We don’t want the schoolyard to be a graveyard," Diggs said.

He called for properly working camera equipment and noted they had later learned there is a button on the school radios that are supposed to be able to call the police but they're not connected. Brower had described an assault happening on the bus before.ĪCE-AFSCME Local 2250 President Diggs called on the school system to add more security – not SROs but security – to both its schools and buses. Marshals located and arrested attempted murder suspect Baby K.īrower and her union chair, Martin Diggs, both called for the school system to step up safety in the wake of the incident. She told FOX 5 the assault began in the seat just behind hers and now realizes she could’ve also been shot and killed that day.Īttempted murder suspect Baby K found, arrested by US Marshals FOX 5 has learned she’s seeing a counselor and being treated for insomnia while she deals with the trauma from the assault.īrower also mentioned the victim expressed fear the suspects were trying to kill him and could return. I was thinking about that child."īrower said she began to pray when she saw the gun - which wound up jamming three different times - and has cried in the days after. "I never even, it never even came to my thoughts. "The furthest thing that came to my mind was somebody jumping on the bus, attempting to kill someone," she said. She described that student as not disorderly and always respectful, expressing shock that something like this could happen to him. 3 teens attack, try to shoot student on school bus in Prince George’s CountyĪ student in Prince George's County is lucky to be alive after a terrifying armed attack on a school bus.
