A school bus in Central City was hit by gunfire Monday afternoon.
The driver of the bus heard the shots and ordered the kids to get down.
He reported he saw a back window of the bus shot out in his rearview mirror.
The bus had recently dropped off eight students and still had 15 kids aboard.
The bus was shot at least twice, no one was injured.
Bus Driver Carl Stewart immediately returned to Sophie B.
Wright High School on Napoleon Avenue.
Parents were notified to come and pick up their kids after the incident.
The Times-Picayune/New Orleans Advocate reports School Principal Sharon Clark said students from the 9th-to-12th grade were on board.
So far no arrests have been made.
“What if a bullet would have hit one of those kids?” Clark told the paper. “I would have been burying a kid today.”
Stewart, a 33-year-driver for Orleans Parish Schools said it wasn’t the first time he’d encountered gunfire while driving a bus filled with kids.
“I’d hate to hear somebody’s child die on the school bus,” Stewart told the paper. “That’s the kind of world we look like we’re getting to.”
