Man charged with firing on school bus, wounding driver [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Jeff Baenen, Associated Press
Updated 4:07 pm CST, Thursday, February 7, 2019

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prosecutors say a 31-year-old security guard fired five shots into the windshield of a school bus that had scraped his car on a snowy highway near downtown Minneapolis, wounding the driver but not striking a child who was on board.

Kenneth Lilly, of St. Paul, was charged Thursday with attempted second-degree murder and second-degree assault. He's due in court Friday and remains in the Hennepin County Jail.

According to the criminal complaint, the bus was trying to merge Tuesday afternoon when it apparently scraped Lilly's sedan. The bus driver said he was unaware the vehicles had touched, but there was paint from the bus on the car. Lilly stopped his car and tried to get on the bus but the driver refused, telling him there was a child on board.

Lilly, who was wearing his security guard uniform, pulled a handgun from his holster and fired at the bus windshield, wounding the driver's left arm and grazing his head. Police said the wounds weren't life-threatening and that his passenger, an elementary school student, was in the rear of the small bus and wasn't hurt.



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Video: Driver shoots at Minneapolis school bus in apparent road rage attack
By PIONEER PRESS | [e-mail]
PUBLISHED: February 7, 2019 at 2:11 pm | UPDATED: February 7, 2019 at 3:03 pm

MnDOT traffic cameras captured video of a man shooting at a school bus Tuesday on Interstate 35W in Minneapolis. WCCO-TV in Minneapolis posted video of the incident Thursday.

Kenneth Walter Lilly, 31, of St. Paul man, was charged Thursday with attempted murder in the case. His gunfire grazed the bus driver’s head and struck his left arm. An 8-year-old child also on the bus at the time was not injured. The bus driver is expected to recover.

https://www.twincities.com/2019/02/07/minneapolis-school-bus-shooting-video-kenneth-lilly-st-paul-charged-i35w/



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St. Paul man charged with attempted murder for allegedly shooting Minneapolis bus driver
By SARAH HORNER | [e-mail] | Pioneer Press
PUBLISHED: February 7, 2019 at 1:05 pm | UPDATED: February 7, 2019 at 6:49 pm

A 31-year-old armed security guard walked in front of a school bus that had scraped his car on a snow-covered Minneapolis freeway Tuesday afternoon and repeatedly shot through the windshield at the driver inside, authorities say.

The gunfire grazed the side of the bus driver’s head and struck his left arm. The injuries were not life-threatening. An 8-year-old student also on the bus was not injured.

On Thursday, the Hennepin County attorney’s office charged Kenneth Walter Lilly, of St. Paul, with one count of attempted second-degree murder and one count of second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon.

Law enforcement authorities responded to a report of a shooting on Interstate 35W at Chicago Avenue at 2:14 p.m. Tuesday. They arrived to find a school bus and black sedan parked in a lane of traffic, according to the criminal complaint.

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https://www.twincities.com/2019/02/07/minneapolis-school-bus-shooting-kenneth-lilly-st-paul-charges-i35w/