Police increase presence in
Cul de Sac school district
ST. PETERS/SOUTH REWARD--Police pushed up their presence in the St.
Peters/South Reward school district Tuesday following rumours that several students planned to take revenge after an ambush near a school on Monday left a school bus damaged and several students in shock.
Fortunately for authorities and the several thousand students who attend primary and secondary school in the area, there was no retaliation to a “movie-style gangster attack” on a bus carrying about 20 Milton Peters College (MPC) students as whispers had predicted since early in the day.
Police were visibly present in the area when schools started letting out about 1:30pm, with officers parking a patrol vehicle outside the MPC campus in South Reward for a while yesterday afternoon.
Students in a school bus leaving the area on Monday were blocked front and back by two cars in a very elaborate ambush that trapped the driver and his passengers just in front of Sheik Supermarket on L.B. Scott Road. The attackers reportedly barraged the bus with rocks, smashing windows and demanding that specific students leave, hinting at prior animosity.
Police spokesman Chief Inspector Johan “Janchi” Leonard guaranteed the police’s presence to ensure that there would be no similar attacks.
