School Bus Driver Traumatized By Attempted Shooting Of Teen

PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD — On May 1, school bus driver Natalie Brower’s life changed forever.

 

Brower was behind the wheel of a school bus where three teenage boys attacked and attempted to shoot a teen passenger. But the weapon malfunctioned.

The assault happened shortly before 5 p.m. when the bus had stopped at Iverson Street and Sutler Drive in Oxon Hill to drop off students, Patch reported previously. While stopped, three teenage boys boarded the bus and began to attack the victim who was still on the bus, according to Prince George’s County Police.

One of the suspects pulled out a gun and tried to shoot the victim several times, but the weapon didn’t fire, police said. The teenager suffered minor injures during the assault. Two adults — Brower and a bus aide — were on or near the bus at the time and were uninjured. Video of the attack released by police shows a teenage attacker holding a gun to the victim’s head and chest while his two accomplices hold the victim down, police said. All three teens then beat the victim and fled.

“This has changed my whole life,” Natalie Brower told WTOP. “Oh … that gun. That gun and seeing that gun jam. And thinking [the victim] was sitting in the seats directly behind me. Right behind me when they attacked him.”