Projo 7 to 7 News Blog

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The police are searching for a young man who was seen shooting a BB gun at a school bus carrying elementary schoolchildren as it drove through the Mount Pleasant neighborhood last Wednesday afternoon.

A 7-year-old girl was hit by glass shattered by a BB, said Lt. Michael Jackvony. Several of the students told the bus driver that they saw a young man, who looked about 16 years old, standing with some girls in the driveway of a house on Regent Avenue when the boy fired at them, Jackvony said.

"It was pretty scary for the kids and pretty serious, as far as I'm concerned," Jackvony said on Tuesday.

The police are adding extra foot patrols in the area, and Chief Dean M. Esserman offered police escorts for the school bus "to make the kids feel safe."

Lt. George Stamatakos, the head of the Youth Services Bureau, said police will meet with the Providence School Department, the bus company, and school resource officers to investigate the incident.

Anyone with information about the shooting may call the Youth Services Bureau at (401) 243-6378.

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