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One person is dead after a gunman hijacked a bus in Atlanta before leading police on a car chase for miles from the city into neighboring suburbs.. Police said one person was fatally shot after a ...
Atlanta police had barely finished briefing the community about a shooting inside a downtown food court Tuesday afternoon when calls began to come in about a bus hijacking.. A gunman had hijacked ...
The man charged with murder and kidnapping after the hijacking of a bus in Atlanta on Tuesday was interviewed by local media about witnessing a shooting mere hours earlier.. Joseph Grier, 39 ...
The bus continued on, weaving in and around other vehicles. Atlanta police said the bus was eventually stopped miles (kilometers) away in neighboring DeKalb County and that Joseph Grier, 39, was taken into custody as police vehicles swarmed all around. As officers cleared the bus of passengers, they found an adult victim with a gunshot wound.
Atlanta police say they responded just after 4:30 p.m. Tuesday to a report of gunfire on a bus and a possible hostage situation. When an officer arrived about a minute later and confronted the suspect, the man forced the bus driver to drive off, Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said.
By the time the bus rolled to a stop some 40 minutes later, authorities said, Grier had fatally shot one passenger and led officers on a dramatic chase through three counties. The food court shooting and the bus hijacking — only two hours and a few blocks apart — created a sense of chaos in Atlanta. In the aftermath, city leaders decried ...
The 2001 Greyhound bus attack occurred on October 3, 2001, near Manchester, Tennessee, when Damir Igrić (September 21, 1972 – October 3, 2001), a Croatian man, commandeered a Greyhound Lines bus en route from Chicago to Orlando, Florida. He slashed the throat of the driver with a utility knife, causing the bus to crash into oncoming traffic ...
The food court shooting and the bus hijacking — only a couple of hours an. As police responded to reports of multiple people shot at a downtown Atlanta food court, Joseph Grier was on the ...