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School Bus Hit By Gunfire In East Charlotte

Sarah Delia

The Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department says a school bus was hit by gunfire Thursday morning as two men exchanged shots near Parkwood and The Plaza. One round struck a window on the bus that was from Charlotte Lab School, a charter school. 

CMPD says the bus was not the target of the gunfire, which occurred as two men argued at a nearby gas station. Police said the bus driver was hit by glass. No students were injured.   

Both shooters fled in separate vehicles. Police says a second vehicle was also hit by gunfire, but the driver was not injured.

Sarah Delia is a Senior Producer for Charlotte Talks with Mike Collins. Sarah joined the WFAE news team in 2014. An Edward R. Murrow Award-winning journalist, Sarah has lived and told stories from Maine, New York, Indiana, Alabama, Virginia and North Carolina. Sarah received her B.A. in English and Art history from James Madison University, where she began her broadcast career at college radio station WXJM. Sarah has interned and worked at NPR in Washington DC, interned and freelanced for WNYC, and attended the Salt Institute for Radio Documentary Studies.