14-Year Old Shoots Bus Driver

Tenn. school bus driver shot to death

By GARY TANNER
Associated Press Writer

CUMBERLAND CITY, Tenn. (AP) -- A 14-year-old boy was charged with shooting a school bus driver to death as she drove her morning route Wednesday. A relative of the driver said she had reported the boy a day earlier for using smokeless tobacco on the bus.

None of the 24 students on the bus, ranging from kindergarten to the 12th grade, was hurt, even though the bus crashed into a utility pole after driver Joyce Gregory was shot.

Authorities declined to comment on a motive for the shooting or identify the high school freshman accused of killing Gregory, but neighbors said his name is Jason Clinard.

Public defender Jack Lockert, who met with the suspect for about 45 minutes, said he was in shock.

"We obviously feel like he has severe mental issues," Lockert said. "He's an A and B student and had never been in trouble before."

Two weeks ago, Gregory told family members she was having trouble with students chewing tobacco on the bus, according to her cousin Jacqueline Reed. After several warnings, she reported them to school administrators Tuesday, Reed said, adding that the 14-year-old was one of the students Gregory reported.

The shooting happened around 6:15 a.m. on an unpaved rural road just outside Cumberland City, about 50 miles northwest of Nashville.

Tennessee Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Jennifer Johnson said the suspect had not yet boarded the bus when the driver was shot. Police said the weapon used was a .45-caliber handgun, but they would not say where the boy got it.

"We've heard stories that there was an argument, that he may have been disciplined by the bus driver, but right now we're trying to sort through those stories to see exactly what happened," Johnson said.

District Attorney Dan Alsobrooks said the suspect has been charged with first-degree murder in Juvenile Court and was being held without bond. He said the boy could face adult charges as the investigation continues.

Gregory was a teacher's assistant for four or five years and had been a bus driver for the past two years, said Phillip Wallace, director of Stewart County Schools.

"I lost a good friend this morning, so I'm hurt," said Bill Austin, a schools supervisor. "We're trying to do our level best to get our kids through this. That's what we've got to do right now."

An informal school safety survey released Wednesday by the National Association of School Resource Officers says more than one in three school-based police officers say violent incidents on school buses are on the rise.

Almost eight in 10 of the school-based officers took a weapon away from a student on school property during the last year, according to the survey of more than 750 officers.

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Well, that's why being a school bus driver is dangerous. If you tell a kid to do something and your not their parent, they will always get an attitude and obviously that kid took chewing tobacco a little too seriously. He could've at least waited til' he got off the bus or after school or something.

Did you notice how easily people can get guns... I want a gun now

Did you notice how easily people can get guns... I want a gun now

your b-day???

Can anyone mail me a gun for my B-day? My birthday is Nov.18 i can get my driving lisence and a gun

Yup, in the US practically anyone can have a gun.
It's a pretty irresponsable law, if you ask me.

i can mail other things like uzi, panzer, granades, mines, ak-47, magnud and so on

Well, that's why being a school bus driver is dangerous. If you tell a kid to do something and your not their parent, they will always get an attitude and obviously that kid took chewing tobacco a little too seriously. He could've at least waited til' he got off the bus or after school or something.

i hope thats a joke, obviously there is no way you can possibly put any fault of this on the bus driver.

and to adress what jona said, do you really think even if guns were completly illegal people wouldnt be able to get guns?? come on, thats being naive there is always going to be a black market, and there will always be guns around, easily accessible. i totally disagree with strict gun control laws because not only would it not work, but it gives the government and the police even more control with the people.

no you didn't get what i said. i wasnt saying the bus driver shouldnt told the kid what to do, but im saying kids are going to do what they want if someone else tries to tell them something if its not their parents because they always think other adults can't tell them what to do.....

in school i went to a site and pretty much ordered a gun on my schools computer without using a proxy or annything (we have a website blocker). I needed a credit card number and i'm like "holy crap!" so i was just like "meh" and xed the window out

I needed a credit card number and i'm like "holy crap!" so i was just like "meh" and xed the window out

I don't know why but that made me laugh pretty hard

Dogg, are u serious about that, mail me a gun. I'll pay through paypal. Jus get me a Deagle, u need this stuff when u have up a retarted GM (Babcock). My address is:

123 Faker Street
Toronto, Ontario
G1U N2T2

LMAO 123 Faker Street could you make it any more obvious?

been playing with guns since HS. i shoot at a shooting range once a month. guns should be handled by responsible poeple. like samurais and other deadly weapons. like martial arts only use for self defense and never offense.

been playing with guns since HS. i shoot at a shooting range once a month. guns should be handled by responsible poeple. like samurais and other deadly weapons. like martial arts only use for self defense and never offense.

i totally disagree with strict gun control laws because not only would it not work, but it gives the government and the police even more control with the people.

may i ask why strict gun control laws would not work?

Because there would still be guns.. guns dont kill people, stupid cunts with guns kill people. If there were no guns, they'd use knives, or bombs, or anything they could get their hands on to do ther business.

i disagree....if everyone in Australia had guns then the murder rates would be much much higher. At their current state they are low with only a few incidents of gun violence.

If american got rid of it's guns (for civilians) then the crime rates would be much lower. It's so much easier to kill someone with a gun and getting away with it rather than a knife or so.

i can mail other things like uzi, panzer, granades, mines, ak-47, magnud and so on

wouldnt it be a scary/funny situation to open your mail and have a granade with the pin out. stupid mailmen

Yeah that'd be hilarious you cocksucker. "Lets think its funny for a mailman to die while doing his job"

Yeah that'd be hilarious you cocksucker. "Lets think its funny for a mailman to die while doing his job"

i meant you geting the package and the evil mailmen doin it. is it me or do you trust those bloodthirsty mailmen.read the news and tell me there not crazy.

Bloodthirsty mailmen? I think you're crazy

Edit: I never heard of a mailman going postal (har har)

A mailman side-swiped me on his little scooter thing once, otherwise I bare no grudge.

999 posts cyanide? Good stuff.

Oh damn, what has OSF done now!?!

i totally disagree with strict gun control laws because not only would it not work, but it gives the government and the police even more control with the people.

may i ask why strict gun control laws would not work?

like i said, a black market will always not only exsist, but it will be even stronger for guns then it already is for drugs, because more people will desire guns then people desire drugs.

A mailman side-swiped me on his little scooter thing once, otherwise I bare no grudge.

yeh mailpeople are ok they have never done anything bad to me and their motorbikes are cool when u get rid of the mail bags lol