Carl Stewart had just dropped eight students off from his school bus in Central City Monday afternoon when he heard gunshots. He yelled for his remaining passengers to get down, just as he saw through his rearview mirror that the vehicle’s back glass window had been shattered by a bullet.
The bus, which had another 15 Sophie B. Wright High School students inside, had been shot at least twice. No one was injured, and Stewart returned to the school’s Napoleon Avenue campus where parents picked up their children, the New Orleans Police Department confirmed Tuesday.
School Principal Sharon Clark said the students, who are between ninth and 12th grade, were on their way home at Magnolia and 6th streets in Central City when the bus was shot about 3:40 p.m.
