A 13-year-old girl was fatally shot on a school bus to death in front of her sister and several other students while riding the bus to a charter school on Tuesday. A 15-year-old Florida teen has been charged with manslaughter and carrying a concealed firearm.
According to the Associated Press, the boy has been identified as Jordyn Alexander Howe and he pulled the gun from his backpack and showed it to other children aboard the private school bus on Tuesday morning.
The gun went off, hitting Lourdes Guzman, 13, in the neck. She was airlifted to Miami Children's Hospital, where she died. Her 7-year-old was on the bus and witnessed the tragic accident. There were also 8 other children on the bus and no one else was harmed.
"The defendant discharged the firearm one time shooting the victim," an officer wrote in the affidavit.
Police said the boy was also a student, and that the firearm was recovered at the scene.
The school bus was not equipped with video surveillance equipment.
