Student injured when pellet fired into STEAM school bus

WARREN — A student at the STEAM Academy on Elm Road suffered was treated by paramedics for a small cut on his face from flying glass after a male fired a pellet gun at his bus at 4:22 p.m. Tuesday as the bus at Third Street and Main Avenue Southwest.

The boy, 12, was not taken to the hospital and went home with his step mother.

Though the students were from the STEAM Academy, the bus and its driver were from Warren Schools, Warren Superintendent Steve Chiaro said.

A Warren police report says the driver realized something happened when the students on the bus started yelling and the injured student ran to the front of the bus bleeding.

The students told the driver that a male on the sidewalk had fired a pellet gun into the bus through the window.

After the driver called her supervisor, a bus garage employee arrived. The children advised him the male who fired the gun was on the sidewalk on Main Avenue, so he followed the male and took a picture of him from behind. The suspect was wearing a long, black dress coat, dark pants and Nike tennis shoes with orange on the back, police said.

Police did not recover the pellet that was fired into the bus, but they observed a window on the right rear part of the bus to have a small hole in it. The window was still intact.

Earlier Tuesday afternoon, another Warren school bus was involved in a rear-end collision at Oak Street and Delaware Avenue Southwest, but none of the four Warren G. Harding High School students on the bus or the driver reported any injuries.

The crash occurred at 2:54 p.m. and involved a vehicle that hit the back of the bus and fled the scene.