A Minnesota man accused of shooting at a school bus on a snowy highway, wounding the driver, pleaded guilty Monday to first-degree assault.
Thirty-two-year-old Kenneth Lilly of St. Paul waived his self-defense claims during his court appearance.
The bus driver, 78-year-old Thomas Benson, was trying to merge onto 35W just south of downtown Minneapolis during a snowstorm on February 5 when the bus scraped Lilly's car.
Lilly fired five shots into the bus windshield, hitting Benson twice.
A girl on the bus was not hurt.
Benson recovered, but can no longer drive a bus.
Lilly faces from three to eight years in prison.
Sentencing for Lilly is October 31 and defense attorneys indicate they'll argue for the shorter prison term.