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03-02-2005, 02:49 PM
CUMBERLAND CITY, Tennessee (AP) -- A school bus driver was shot to death as she drove her route Wednesday morning and a male student was taken into custody, authorities said. No students were hurt.
A law enforcement source who spoke on condition of anonymity told The Associated Press that the bus driver died.
At the time of the shooting, the bus was carrying up to 20 students, ranging from kindergarten to 12th grade, said Bill Austin, a supervisor for Stewart County schools.
The student taken into custody was identified only as a teenager.
The bus crashed into a utility pole at the driveway of the student's home and knocked out power in the rural neighborhood. A white sheet was draped across the front of the bus and door as authorities investigated the scene.
Mitchell Kern, a neighbor who graduated from high school last year, said the student who was taken into custody is 15 years old.
"He was a good kid," Kern said. "He listened to his parents; they loved him to death."
Stewart County school superintendent Phillip Wallace declined to identify the driver, other than to say she had worked for the schools for two years.
Cumberland City is about 50 miles northwest of Nashville.
A law enforcement source who spoke on condition of anonymity told The Associated Press that the bus driver died.
At the time of the shooting, the bus was carrying up to 20 students, ranging from kindergarten to 12th grade, said Bill Austin, a supervisor for Stewart County schools.
The student taken into custody was identified only as a teenager.
The bus crashed into a utility pole at the driveway of the student's home and knocked out power in the rural neighborhood. A white sheet was draped across the front of the bus and door as authorities investigated the scene.
Mitchell Kern, a neighbor who graduated from high school last year, said the student who was taken into custody is 15 years old.
"He was a good kid," Kern said. "He listened to his parents; they loved him to death."
Stewart County school superintendent Phillip Wallace declined to identify the driver, other than to say she had worked for the schools for two years.
Cumberland City is about 50 miles northwest of Nashville.