Bullet Hits School Bus, Injures 3 Students

Chicago, IL (AHN) - Three sixth grade students were slightly hurt by broken glass from a school bus window hit by a stray bullet at a Chicago neighborhood on Wednesday morning.

Two girls aged 11 and 12 and a 12-year-old boy from the Perspectives Charter School in Joslin were treated and discharged from the Mt.Sinai Hospital after the incident that occurred in the Near West Side.

The school's spokesman, Zach Duffy, said the other students on the bus were taken to the nearby Cristo Rey Jesuit High School, where they were picked up by their parents or transferred to another bus going to their school.

The bus was returning to the school when it was hit at 11:12 a.m. by a bullet, whom witnesses said came from a shooting near the corner of Cermak and Wolcott Streets. Police said the bus was not the intended target and they are gathering evidence to pinpoint the gunman, who remains at large.