a Westside high school student has been
shot in the chest and right now is in
surgery and life-threatening condition
this morning this happened at 6:15 a.m.
simply while the student was walking to
his bus stop are giving you perspective
so this student then boarded a school
bus that bus driver drove that student
to the closest fire station which is on
Tiny Tim Lane you can see how close the
school is to the location where the fire
station is and we know that that student
who was wounded is in a student at
Westside high school Jennifer Reddy is
joining us now live from outside that
fire station Jennifer as best as we've
been able to tell based on the angles
and the pictures that you brought us are
a lot of the kids who were on the bus
still being interviewed inside the fire
station by investigators it appears at
this point a lot of the students are no
longer being interviewed some of them
did board a bus and were transported to
school but I want to give you a look at
the scene here right now you can see
that Jaso is still here on the scene as
well as several detectives and that
school bus that did take that swift
action to bring that student here to
this fire station when he boarded the
bus with that gunshot wound now to give
you a quick recap here's what we know so
far we are told that a young man from
Westside high school walked on walking
to the bus stop this morning around 6:15
was shot by a black car driving by he
did board the bus the bus driver acted
very quickly and brought him here to
this fire station
he was then transported to the hospital
with life-threatening injuries at this
time they do not have any suspects in
custody as to who was in that black car
that drove by early this morning we also
do not have a suspect description at
this time now something else that the
school board did tell us is that went
when they were questioning several
students who were aboard that bus two of
the students were uncooperative and one
did try to take an officer's taser that
student was taste and was transported to
Baptist to ensure that he is okay we are
we did ask Jaso about that and they did
give us very little information in
regards to that incident but again they
are still here on the scene they are
continuing to investigate I did speak
with one witness here on the scene and
he told us a little bit about what he
saw when he got off the bus stop and he
said
that he did see somebody who was loaded
into a truck we do not know which
individual that may have been but he
says that this needs to stop and these
things shouldn't be happening in broad
daylight especially to kids and he says
he is going to take his concerns to the
City Council
reporting live Jennifer Reddy channel 4
the local station
all right thank you thank you Jen and we
do know based on our interview earlier
with Ashley Harding who is just live
outside Westside high school that crisis
counselors are there talking to students
because they're arriving to school to
find out that one of their student is
one of their classmates has been shot
and is literally fighting for his life
right now at the hospital we know that
the the principal of Westside high is
currently right there on scene right now
he is talking to the students trying to
calm them down because you know as you
know 21 students on the bus 19 of them
were from his school Westside high
school and as they not only witness this
young man coming onto their bus with a
possibly life-threatening well it is a
life threatening would possibly fatal
gunshot wound
it's jarring it's tragic their their
kids I mean their kids having to deal
with this so I know Jen just mentioned
that Ashley pardon was at Westside high
school we want to go ahead and check in
with Ashley now I know you haven't been
on scene very long Ashley but can you
tell us what you see around you
yes Nikki and Jen good morning we've
actually been talking to a couple
parents who were late dropping their
children off this was actually the first
time this two that we had spoken to this
is the first time they had heard about
this situation I was basically breaking
the news to them in the first lady she
did not want to go on camera because she
immediately started to cry she started
to tear up just the thought of one of
her children's classmates being shot
walking to the bus stop she was just
pulling out here like like any other
parent would do but we did talk to
another father who is right behind her
it was his first time hearing about this
as well I alerted him to the crisis
teams who are now inside that building
inside Westside high school talking to
these students undoubtedly talking to
his son and daughter as well he
immediately became angry when he heard
what happened he immediately started
talking about how this is just
unacceptable for this to happen too
young to a young man here is his
reaction what he told me and what's
concerning him the most as a parent saw
daylight kids coming to school to learn
didn't have to go through this stuff is
it it's unacceptable you know I mean
kids kids life is in danger I mean it's
ridiculous you know I mean we're living
in a time now that everybody just want
to hurt each other you know instead of
resolving things people just want to
result of violence and he's got to stop
and while the young man who has been
shot his name has not been identified at
this point and of course we don't know
who that young man is but that father
tells me he wouldn't be surprised at all
if that young man knows his children his
two children who go to school here and
for that for that reason alone he says
you know his mind in his heart and his
thoughts are with that young man as he
is now in surgery it with
life-threatening injuries and as you
heard him there say he's just he's sick
of hearing stories like this and now
that it's happened to a student for him
he says it really hits close to home and
of course we're still here at Westside
high school where those crisis teams are
working with these students right now of
course we'll keep you updated new
details that do come in but for now
we're live on the west side ashley
harding channel for the local station
all right Thank You Ashley and again we
want to take you live back to the scene
where as Jennifer ready just reported to
us I mean this is the school bus
where that that wounded student boarded
along with 21 other students was taken
so that they so that you know he could
be helped by fire station 22 all the
EMTs and the paramedics who are there
you know it's interesting as we saw that
two more investigators have pulled up
there about 20-30 minutes ago but as Jen
had mentioned most of the students who
were on the bus have been interviewed
and were put on a bus and then led away
to presumably go back to school order to
take them someplace where their parents
could pick them up we are waiting to
find out information about how this
young man is doing we do know that he is
at least 17 years old we're told by
officers they think he's between 17 and
19 years old at last check he was in
surgery at UF health and he was in
life-threatening condition with one
gunshot wound to the chest
our prayers are with him and his family
and again we're just waiting to find out
how he he did with surgery and hopefully
he will be able to pull through