- April 19, 2024
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Two 14-year-old boys were arrested April 12 and charged with firing BB guns at a school bus and other vehicles. The charge they both face — "shooting or throwing a deadly missile" — is a felony.
Flagler County Sheriff's Office deputies got a call about a school bus being hit with BB gun fire at about 3:36 p.m., after the school bus driver pulled the full bus off to the side of the road near the intersection of Belle Terre Boulevard and Zinnia Trail and called the bus dispatch, which contacted the Sheriff's Office. No one was hurt.
The driver saw two boys running down a path through the woods, according to an arrest report.
A detective saw two boys matching the suspects' description near Ziegler Place. The boys ducked behind a house, and the detective noticed that he side doors and window were shattered. Someone opened the door and said he was home with his siblings. One of the siblings was one of the two suspects.
The boy, a 14-year-old, said that he and two other boys had granted two air soft guns and a BB gun from his house, walked out to Belle Terre Boulevard, and "began shooting numerous vehicles until the bus pulled over," according to the report.
He said they both ran and fled to his house "because he did not want to go to jail," according to the report.
A second boy was also caught and arrested. He denied knowing where the BB guns were, but a neighbor took video of the boys tossing what looked like a gun into the woods near Zinc Place, according to his arrest report. Deputies found a Daisy BB rifle there.
A school bus driver identified one of the two boys as one of the ones seen firing a BB gun at the bus, and a school bus aid identified the second boy. Deputies arrested both.
