ATLANTA — From inside her Suwanee home Monday morning, the 12 loud pops she heard didn’t register as gunshots.
The Riverside Elementary School parent, as she does most mornings, had just put her kindergartner on the school bus and returned to her home in the Highlands at Bridgegate subdivision, a quiet neighborhood across the street from the school and Settles Bridge Park. The pops must have been nearby construction, the mother surmised.
About 30 minutes later, a phone call from Riverside administrators sent the woman rushing to the school, past a growing cadre of Gwinnett County police officers gathered on her street. In the school’s parking lot, she saw her child’s bus riddled with bullets, its front windshield shattered.
