A parent's worst nightmare occurred on Tuesday night when their child never made it to school. A teenage girl was fatally shot on a school bus on the way to school on Tuesday morning in Miami. A teenage boy is now in custody for killing the girl.
The 13-year-old girl, who was a student at the Palm Glades Preparatory Academy charter school, was transported to Miami Children's Hospital after she was shot in the neck. She later died from her injury.
A 15-year-old boy on the bus took out a gun from his backpack and started showing it around. He fired the weapon, hitting Lourdes Guzman. Guzman's 7-year-old sister was also on the bus, along with seven other children. No one else was harmed. The children and the bus driver were questioned by authorities.
"Officers responded and that's when they discovered that there was a 13-year-old girl suffering from a gunshot wound," Miami-Dade Police Detective Alvaro Zabaleta said, according to the Daily Mail. "They were immediately able to determine that the subject or the shots came within the bus and he was able to be detained and taken into custody."
The children on the bus attended different charter schools. Guzman was just seven minutes from school when the shooting occurred. It is not clear what school the boy attended or what his motive was.
Parents showed up at the scene which was sectioned off by police, expressing their concern. They were told that no further incidents would occur.
"We made contact with all of the schools, everything is fine and none of them have been placed on shut down, so everything is OK, no need for panic," Zabaleta said.
Some parents have said they are considering relocating their children. The wife of Fabian Otero, whose son Christian attends Palm Glades, drives her son to school, but they are both very shaken by the incident. They are considering home schooling their son or enrolling him at another school.
"I was stunned! I was stunned!" Otero said, according to the Associated Press. "That hits really close to home. That's just scary."
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