FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The gunman in the Fort Lauderdale bus shooting fired 21 bullets in the midafternoon assault Thursday that left two dead and two wounded, according to the police.
Video from inside the bus showed the suspect, Jamal Meyers, withdraw a semiautomatic handgun from his right pocket and fire 12 shots at four people seated in the rear of the bus, according to a Fort Lauderdale Police report. He reloaded his pistol and fired another nine shots at them.
The Broward County Transit driver forced the bus into oncoming traffic, striking two cars, to reach the Fort Lauderdale police station. During her desperate drive to the police department, as shots rang out aboard the bus, drivers called 911 to complain about a rogue public bus that was putting drivers in danger. “There was a bus driving the wrong way,” one 911 caller said. “We had to just stop and let it go.”
