Two people were charged with attempted murder and aggravated assault for their roles in a shooting that left a Coatesville Area School District school bus researchers announced on Sunday in early October.
Gabriel Johnson, 17, and Jose Medina, 20, were charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault, recklessly endangering another person, conspiracy and other related charges, according to the Chester County District Attorney’s Office.
Investigators said both men are from Coatesville and Johnson has been charged as an adult. Eighteen-year-old Jaki White-Marshall was also previously charged in connection with the shooting.
According to the criminal complaints, police were first notified of the shooting on Oct. 10, just before 2:30 p.m., when they received reports of someone shooting at a school bus near Hope Avenue and Charles Street in Coatesville. Detectives later obtained surveillance footage of the shooting that showed four men walking through an intersection, two of whom then began shooting down the street, hitting the bus.
The district attorney’s office found that Johnson shot the school bus six times and that Medina was with him during the shooting.
The bus was full of students at the time of the shooting. Investigators believe the shooters tried to do that shoot a student getting off the bus.
A student on the bus at the time said they had “never dived down so fast in my life.”
“I heard three pops,” the student said. “I felt like I heard it from the side of the bus, and then I saw the glass shatter.”
No one on the school bus was injured.
“This is not the end of our investigation. We will continue to work to arrest and convict everyone involved in the shooting of this school bus,” Chester County District Attorney Christopher de Barrena-Sarobe said in a news release.
The investigation is ongoing in collaboration with Chester County Detectives and the Coatesville City Police Department. Anyone with information about the case is asked to contact Chester County detectives at 610-344-6866 or CCPD at 610-384-2300.
