Two men in upstate New York crashed a Jeep into a school bus carrying 17 children after allegedly stealing the car from a woman at knifepoint.
Video shows the speeding Jeep crash into the front of the school bus and two passengers running away on foot – both were arrested and have been named as Adeosun Hughes, 23 and Maliq McCullough, 20.
Rochester police say the red Jeep was stolen from a 51-year-old woman at around 4pm on March 15 – she was injured when the suspect grabbed a necklace and lanyard from around her neck.
The car was spotted by police an hour later and a short chase ensued, ending in the collision. None of the children nor the bus driver were injured.
Two men in their early twenties allegedly stole a woman’s Jeep in New York before crashing the stolen car into a school bus carrying 17 children
The red Jeep was stolen from a woman at knifepoint at about 4pm on March 15, around 3 miles from where it was eventually crashed into the bus
Police say the woman was leaving a school on Costar Street in Rochester at around 4pm and while loading things into her Jeep was approached by a man wielding a knife.
Her car was reported stolen and police spotted the vehicle less than an hour later. When they tried to pull it over, the driver reversed into the Rochester Police patrol car before making off.
The vehicle did take off at that point,’ Rochester police Captain Adam Radens told News10NBC. ‘The officers pursued the vehicle. At one point the vehicle was heading the wrong way on Roycroft approaching the intersection at Roycroft and Carter.’
Police chased the car the wrong way down the one-way residential street until at the intersection it was filmed by a bystander crashing into the front of the school bus.
‘At that same moment, a northbound bus, a school bus, was trying to attempt to cross that intersection when the stolen vehicle did crash into the front of it,’ Radens added.
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Raymond Gonzalez, who recorded the video, said he was leaving a corner store when he heard police sirens and saw the chase.
In the video the two men in the Jeep flee on foot and officers can be heard yelling at them to get on the ground. The two ran in opposite directions but both were apprehended.
McCullough was charged with first-degree robbery, second-degree assault, and both third and fourth-degree larceny. Hughes has been charged with unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.
On of the two men in the car was recorded running from the site of the crash as police order him to get on the ground. Both were eventually arrested
The two men ran in opposite directions but both were eventually arrested by Rochester police
The students on the bus attended Rochester Prep Charter School.
‘Thankfully, the driver and every student was uninjured as a result of the crash,’ the Rochester Police Department said in a statement.
‘The city school district was advised of the accident and made arrangements to have each student transported home,’ it added.
According to News10 it was the second reported carjacking on school property this year.
Adam Urbanski, head of the Rochester Teachers Association, told the channel: ‘If you can’t feel safe in a school parking lot, you’re not likely to feel safe at school, and if teachers don’t feel safe you can bet that the children are not safe either.’
