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Teen accused of shooting BB gun into CMS bus full of students

By Mark Barber
By Mark Barber

A teenager fired a BB gun Wednesday morning at a school bus filled with children, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said.

Police said 17-year-old Jose Delgado told them that he wasn't shooting at the bus, but at a target in his front yard on Dion Avenue. Officers said the teen didn't hit the target, but shot a bus carrying 48 children to school.

Delgado was arrested and charged with shooting into an occupied vehicle and discharging a firearm within city limits.

"That's crazy, who would shoot at a school bus and why? These are just children," said neighbor Ebony Brown.

Police said a pellet from the BB gun shattered a back window of the bus around 8:45 a.m.

According to police, the bus was carrying students to Idlewild Elementary School, including Kevin Wilson's 10-year-old son.

"I look up, and the bus is pulled over and the window is out," Wilson said.

Since gunmen have targeted schools and students in the past, Wilson said he frantically tried to make sure his son was OK.

"He's telling me that a window's been shot out and he's scared and he's asking me to come get him," he said.

While the students were shaken, police said no one was hurt.

As parents checked on their children, police carried a BB gun and a target out of the house of the accused shooter.

Wilson said he knows his 17-year-old neighbor but he doesn't know why it happened.

"What are you doing at 9 o'clock in the morning shooting BB pellets with kids outside?" he asked.

Wilson said he's going to hold his fifth-grader a little tighter after the scare.

"It makes me want to put a shell around him more a protective bubble, a protective guard around him more," he said.

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