Bus struck by BBs outside of South Seattle elementary school
Mar 12, 2015, 3:33 PM | Updated: 5:38 pm
Seattle Police officers responded to 44th Street and South Holly Street after reports a school bus was hit by bullets Thursday afternoon.
Shots were fired just before Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School was supposed to let out for the day, according to a Seattle School District spokesperson. But Seattle Police say the bullets were actually BBs.
“The great news is there were no injuries. There were no kids on the bus,” said spokesperson Stacy Howard.
The district said the driver heard a noise and then saw the windows on her side shattered.
The reports forced MLK Elementary into a brief lockdown.
Witnesses reported seeing a man carrying a rifle running down the street near the bus, and into a nearby home.
SWAT officers responded to the home, but were unable to find a suspect.
Witnesses told officers a group of teens had been playing with a BB gun in the area shortly before the bus was damaged.
