WLBT 3 - Jackson, MS: Surveillance tape shows gun on Yazoo school bus

Surveillance tape shows gun on Yazoo school bus

By Cheryl Lasseter - bio | email

YAZOO COUNTY, MS (WLBT) - WLBT News has obtained the chilling surveillance video of a 9th grade girl pointing a loaded pistol at a bus full of children.

On Tuesday, a young girl decided to deal with her foes in a way most of us would never imagine: pulling a gun on them in the school bus. But then she's thwarted by a star football player.

The girl is seen sitting quietly on the bus before flopping her bag over the seat in front of her and pulling out the pistol.  There are 22 people on the bus, including the bus driver, who tries to diffuse the situation.

The children are seen quickly exiting in the front and in the back of the vehicle.

As the video goes on, the girl is tackled to the ground by Yazoo County football player Kaleb Eulls. He distracted her, and then easily took the gun away.

The girl tells the bus driver other students have been irritating her, but Yazoo County Sheriff Tommy Vaughan isn't sure when that all started.  "We don't know how long it had been going on on that particular day, the audio didn't pick up anything as far as someone saying something to her. She just gets up, you see she's got the gun."

Sheriff Vaughan also wants to find out where the 9th grader got the pistol.  "We'd hoped to have an interview with her mother this morning.  Said she'd be here around 10:00 but for whatever reason she didn't show up," he says.

Kaleb Eulls is the young man who intervened. He's a sought-after defensive end and quarterback for the high school football team, and he recently committed to Mississippi State University for his college career. 

The girl is behind bars, charged with 22 counts of attempted aggravated assault, 22 counts of kidnapping, and one count of possession of a firearm on school property. It's still unclear if she will be tried as an adult.  WLBT News has been told she has undergone a mental evaluation.