“Our focus right now is on supporting our students and staff who are deeply impacted by this tragedy. “We are devastated by the tragic loss of one of our own,” Whitney said in a statement posted on Facebook. Pasco School District Superintendent Michelle Whitney said counselors would be available over the weekend and next week to meet with students who were on the bus and any staff affected by the incident. “The Pasco Police Department will work in close partnership with the Pasco School District through this investigation.”
“Pasco police detectives will be processing the crime scene throughout the night,” he told reporters in a prepared statement. The driver, 72-year-old Richard Lenhart, was fatally stabbed by a man in front of a busload of elementary school students on Friday afternoon. More information is expected to be released Monday, said Pasco Police Capt. “It is a shocking story any time a public servant is killed while working,” he said.” We don’t think things like this are going to happen.(File) A school bus driver was fatally stabbed in front of multiple children Friday after picking them up from a Washington state elementary school, authorities said.įlorida mom helped son beat up another kid in middle school: deputies Smyth said the incident was “shocking,” but also called it a “rare occurrence. J/ 7:15 AM / AP The wife of a French bus driver who was beaten to death after he asked four passengers to wear face masks aboard his vehicle called Saturday for 'exemplary punishment'. Leon McCaskre, 41, died when he was hit while. The officer was rescued and did not suffer any injuries. A driver who says he used his car to try to stop a woman being stabbed in the street by her stalker ex-husband has urged police to de-arrest him. Smyth noted that one officer went onto the ice as part of the investigation and fell through. "A canine unit member was able to apprehend the suspect before he crossed the river." "The suspect was trying to cross the river," Smyth said. He said witnesses directed officers to the frozen Red River where the police canine unit was able to track down the suspect. Winnipeg Transit director Dave Wardrop said the city is looking into new measures to improve safety.Īt a news conference Tuesday morning, Winnipeg Police Chief Danny Smyth said officers were on scene shortly after 2 a.m.
“From what I gather,” Thorp said, “this was a person that was asleep on the bus and the operator approached this individual and woke them up, and it escalated from there.”
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He said municipalities across Canada need to take transit safety more seriously, although he said it appears full shields would not have helped in this particular incident. (CNN) - As horrified travelers watched, a Greyhound Canada bus passenger repeatedly stabbed and then decapitated a young man who was sitting and sleeping beside him, a witness said Thursday. Students from Longfellow Elementary in the city of Pasco were already on the bus Friday when a man got on and attacked the driver, police Capt. Paul Thorp, President of the Amalgamated Transit Union Canada, said that although assaults of transit operators happen every day in Canada, Fraser’s death marks the first time a driver has been killed. A school bus driver was stabbed after he had picked up students from a Washington state elementary school and died of his injuries at a hospital, police said. The city piloted the shields but never implemented them.
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Giesbrecht was among the drivers who said that the death highlights the need for plastic shields that fully separate drivers from passengers.
No criminal charges have been laid.īus driver Nelson Giesbrecht said Irvine had been working nights because his daughter died and he had been caring for her child during the day. Fraser died in hospital after he was stabbed by a passenger while stopped at the end of his route.Ī 22-year-old suspect was taken into custody. The deadly stabbing of a Winnipeg bus driver at the University of Manitoba campus early on Tuesday morning has renewed calls to improve safety for transit workers.
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