Miami school bus shooting: Thirteen-year-old girl shot on bus, male student questioned

By: Crimesider Staff
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/ CBS Miami

(CBS/AP) MIAMI - A 13-year-old girl was shot on a Miami-area charter school bus Tuesday morning and airlifted to a hospital.

PICTURES: Fla. teen fatally shot on school bus

Miami-Dade Police said they are questioning a male student in custody, but did not release his age. It's unclear what prompted the shooting inside the Somerset Academy Silver Palms bus in Homestead, south of Miami.

The victim's condition was not known.

Concerned parents gathered at the scene, which was cordoned off by crime scene tape. It's unclear how many students were on the bus at the time of the shooting.

School officials say the principal walked to each classroom to check on students after learning about the shooting and that everything was fine. Grief counselors were on their way to the charter school.

According to CBS Miami, a spokeswoman for Florida Consortium of Public Charter Schools said she has not been able to confirm that the girl was a student at Somerset Silver Palms. The bus was also taking students to two other schools.

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by DwainDBathtub November 22, 2012 12:18 PM EST: Some of these comments are really really stupid! Wouldn't be so damned funny if it was your kid shot to death on a school bus for absolutely no reason! No adults here that I can tell. Juvenile idiots!; Reply to this comment


by cuebert1981 November 21, 2012 11:15 AM EST: Hate crime all over it and he is black there gonna look at this as a a murder charge pure and simple when they release the 15 year boys name its gonna be hell i want justice for this white girl blacks ******* about trayvon its our turn trayvon was a ******* punk who didn't deserve justice; Reply to this comment


by cynthiascott301k November 20, 2012 5:01 PM EST: Well yes ; By reading some of these comments will blow your brains our of your nose. They're seemed to be the people from Biblical Tower of Babel, and real ignorant to booth. Real quick to jump to a racial solution.; Reply to this comment


by straightener--2008 November 20, 2012 4:51 PM EST: Dead kids are simply the price we must pay for our freedoms. Freedom isn't free, folks. *cue the banjo music and the blue angel fly-by*; Reply to this comment

by stuart116 November 20, 2012 4:12 PM EST

I bet they where black.

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by michas01 November 20, 2012 5:03 PM EST: Stereotype much?


by lezziesue November 20, 2012 5:29 PM EST: Ignorant


by stoneyfromnc November 20, 2012 5:31 PM EST: probably not. what 13 year old black kid still goes to school?


by animaltoo November 20, 2012 3:45 PM EST: I would not want to have a child in public school!; Reply to this comment

by BILLYSNAP November 20, 2012 3:44 PM EST

It's Florida, so what else is new.

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by Solarrays247 November 20, 2012 4:27 PM EST: Well, it could have been Colorado. Oh, pardon me. This wasn't a mass shooting, was it? My mistake.

by lfitts2 November 20, 2012 1:15 PM EST

See all students should be armed to the teeth at all times, that would prevent this kind of violence (SARCASM!!!)

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by FlyingGoat November 20, 2012 4:00 PM EST: Exactly! Just not enough automatic weapons in schools. They don't even allow RPGs, or so I've heard! How are students supposed to defend themselves?


by LMills261 November 20, 2012 5:19 PM EST: Exactly! When 13 year olds are no longer safe, the solution is to arm all 13 year olds, give them an NRA safety course and a certificate, then trust that they will have the wisdom and maturity with which all good Americans are blessed!