1 killed, 2 injured in apparent drive-by shooting at bus stop

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ky. — A teenage lad was killed and 2 different juveniles were injured successful an apparent drive-by shooting astatine a autobus halt successful Louisville, Kentucky, according to police.

The Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) says its officers responded to the shooting adjacent the intersection of Dr. WJ Hodge St. and Chestnut St. astir 6:30 a.m. ET connected Wednesday.

Police accidental 2 of the 3 children were transported to country hospitals aft being changeable portion waiting for a bus.

One of the kids, a teenage boy, was pronounced dormant astatine the University of Louisville Hospital. Another teenage lad was transported to different infirmary with non-life-threatening injuries. The 3rd juvenile, a girl, was treated for insignificant injuries astatine the scene, constabulary say.

"This is devastating for america to perceive of the nonaccomplishment of 1 of our students successful a condition similar this," said Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS) spokesperson Renee Murphy. "We are reasoning of the families and we volition enactment the families the champion that we tin passim this process."

According to JCPS officials, the autobus arrived soon aft and was headed to Eastern High School.

"This is astir arsenic atrocious arsenic it gets. For it to beryllium children waiting astatine a autobus stop—to spell to school, it's astir arsenic debased arsenic this metropolis tin get," said Anthony Piagentini of Metro Council District 19.

Piagentini was connected his mode to metropolis hallway to enactment for the mayor, saw that it was adjacent by, and came implicit to spot what was going on.

"It's the astir tragic cornerstone of precisely what's been going connected this twelvemonth and astatine this year, it's wholly each hands to the pummel. I don't attraction who you are oregon what you bash for the city, oregon you're conscionable a acrophobic citizen, it needs to beryllium everybody moving to halt this. We conscionable request to bash everything we tin to halt it and halt it now," Piagentini said.

LMPD has been successful connection with families. JCPS is moving with families and LMPD.

This communicative was primitively published by unit astatine WLEX.