According to eurweb.com passengers on a church bus were caught in the middle of a shootout Sunday in Salisbury, North Carolina.
None of the 15 passengers was injured when two bullets struck the First Calvary Baptist Church bus, but one passenger with a pacemaker experienced chest pains and was admitted to Rowan Regional Medical Center.
According to the SalisburyPost.com, it happened near the Civic Apartments Complex Sunday afternoon. Witnesses onboard told police “guys were shooting back and forth at each other,” with some in a gray Honda and black Mercury, one on the front porch of a house on Forney Street, and one man shooting from behind the bus. When the shooting stopped the driver sped the bus back to the church.
Police found a bullet hole near the back of the bus with the bullet lodged in fiberglass. They also found a scrape mark which appeared to be made by a bullet grazing the vehicle from front to back. Now residents are questioning whether police are doing enough to prevent violence in the city.
“We need more police presence. Why aren’t there more officers on the street?” asked William Peoples, a member of Calvary Baptist and former president of the local NAACP. Peoples said he isn’t surprised the church bus got caught in a shootout.
The bus driver said the shooting scene isn’t a part of the regular bus route. He drove there on request to pick up a member who didn’t have transportation that day.
