Passenger injured while fleeing chaos inside bus

During the chaos, nineteen year old Lucia Carrillo jumped through the back door while the bus was still moving and she suffered a fractured skull.  She remains critically injured in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. News Five spoke with an eyewitness who was standing in front of a shop when the passenger leaped from the vehicle.  He told us off camera that he helped her to get medical attention.

Voice of person who helped injured teen

“I see that the bus come speeding from over there and the gial drop over here and the bus continue and I hear lotta people di mek lotta noise and soh I pick up di gial and ker di gial dah hospital.  From deh I noh know weh happen wen I see dehn ker wah man and seh dat dah di man weh di look fi rob dehn.  Ih got gun.  Only dat I see, I lef everybody.”

Marion Ali

“She jumped right? Nobody pushed her?”

Voice of Eyewitness

“No she jump by ihself because sake ah ih see di man di come with di gun di same time soh she get frighten and ih jump.  Some other people mi come side ah she and I talk to dehn and dehn seh dat sake ah dat she jump through the back door and the bus still run fast because di gunman mi deh inside di try harass everybody with the gun.”

Marion Ali

“Now you’re only nineteen years old and you had the presence of mind to have taken control of your bus and still keep your passengers calm.  How did you manage to do that?”

Ernesto Castillo Junior

“I’m not going to tell you any lie, I felt really frightened but I knew my life was in danger and most everyone else life was in danger as well so my feat was that right ahead there was a feeder road, so that was my fear that they would have directed me to go in there and that’s why I was accelerating to pass that point.  But then after I saw that they didn’t ask me to go then still nervous but I was a little bit more in control then.”

The bus company says it will keep the run because it is necessary for commuters of the area, but they will improve security on the bus.  Police have recovered both the conductor’s purse with all the stolen money and the items stolen from the passengers.