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Mom shot near school bus stop
Playground quarrel between girls turns into violence between their parents
By Jeremy Hudson
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What began as a playground argument between two elementary school girls turned violent Thursday when one child's mother shot the other's in the chest near their daughters' school bus stop.
The Johnson Elementary School students, ages 10 and 12, left the school bus stop at Plymouth Heights Boulevard and Pocahontas Avenue after an argument and returned with their mothers, Jackson Police Department spokesman Robert Graham said.
"One parent was trying to leave when another parent started hitting her on the top of the head," Graham said. "Then Vanessa Rudd produced a weapon and shot the other person in the chest."
Rochelle Bailey, 35, no address available, was in critical condition at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, Graham said.
Rudd, 34, of 2906 Martin Luther King Drive, was arrested shortly after the shooting in the 300 block of Fairfield Drive and charged with aggravated assault. She is being held at the Hinds County Detention Center in Raymond without bond.
About 20 junior high school students waiting on their buses witnessed the 7:20 a.m. shooting, neighbors said. No students were injured. Elementary school students waiting for the bus had been picked up.
The shooting occurred about 110 feet from the school bus stop, Jackson Public School System officials said.
Roosevelt Flemming, who identified himself as the stepfather of Rudd's daughter, said the argument began at the Fair Park playground Saturday when his stepdaughter and another girl did not want to play with Bailey's daughter.
Tension between the two carried on throughout the week, Flemming said.
"(Bailey) was down there looking for some mess," Flemming said. "She was slapping (Rudd) in the back of the head and acting a fool up there."
Cynthia Adams, Bailey's sister, did not deny her sister pushed Rudd, but said it was Rudd who endangered the lives of other children.
"She knew what she was coming down here to do," Adams said. "Why else would you have a gun?"
John Coleman, Jackson Public Schools director of safety and security, said his officers patrol school bus stops when they are aware a potential problem exists, but were not told of the tension between the girls.
"We will have a vigorous patrol on that zone now," Coleman said. "But this (shooting) did not involve students. We can't control an extension of the community like this.
"You just don't expect grown-ups to get involved in a situation like this."
:banghead:
Mom shot near school bus stop
Playground quarrel between girls turns into violence between their parents
By Jeremy Hudson
[email protected]
What began as a playground argument between two elementary school girls turned violent Thursday when one child's mother shot the other's in the chest near their daughters' school bus stop.
The Johnson Elementary School students, ages 10 and 12, left the school bus stop at Plymouth Heights Boulevard and Pocahontas Avenue after an argument and returned with their mothers, Jackson Police Department spokesman Robert Graham said.
"One parent was trying to leave when another parent started hitting her on the top of the head," Graham said. "Then Vanessa Rudd produced a weapon and shot the other person in the chest."
Rochelle Bailey, 35, no address available, was in critical condition at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, Graham said.
Rudd, 34, of 2906 Martin Luther King Drive, was arrested shortly after the shooting in the 300 block of Fairfield Drive and charged with aggravated assault. She is being held at the Hinds County Detention Center in Raymond without bond.
About 20 junior high school students waiting on their buses witnessed the 7:20 a.m. shooting, neighbors said. No students were injured. Elementary school students waiting for the bus had been picked up.
The shooting occurred about 110 feet from the school bus stop, Jackson Public School System officials said.
Roosevelt Flemming, who identified himself as the stepfather of Rudd's daughter, said the argument began at the Fair Park playground Saturday when his stepdaughter and another girl did not want to play with Bailey's daughter.
Tension between the two carried on throughout the week, Flemming said.
"(Bailey) was down there looking for some mess," Flemming said. "She was slapping (Rudd) in the back of the head and acting a fool up there."
Cynthia Adams, Bailey's sister, did not deny her sister pushed Rudd, but said it was Rudd who endangered the lives of other children.
"She knew what she was coming down here to do," Adams said. "Why else would you have a gun?"
John Coleman, Jackson Public Schools director of safety and security, said his officers patrol school bus stops when they are aware a potential problem exists, but were not told of the tension between the girls.
"We will have a vigorous patrol on that zone now," Coleman said. "But this (shooting) did not involve students. We can't control an extension of the community like this.
"You just don't expect grown-ups to get involved in a situation like this."
:banghead:
Maybe the woman had a CCW and just happened to have her gun on her...
