Safety precautions made following school bus shooting

DUVAL COUNTY, Fla. — Parents and Duval County School staff were on guard Friday morning after two juvenile girls were shot while on a school bus.

The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office responded to the scene Thursday afternoon near 118th Street and Ortega Farms Boulevard.

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School officials at James Weldon Johnson Academic and Career Training Center took extra precautions. Officers with JSO patrolled the school, parents whose students usually ride the bus dropped them off and the principal greeted students at the front door to make sure they got in safely. School buses were also escorted by JSO.

Quinta Addison said her daughter is still traumatized. Her eighth-grade daughter was on the bus when the shooting happened and was sitting in front of one of the teenage girls whowere shot.

One of the victims is 15-year-old Shakayla Singleton.

"If it wasn't for another girl pulling her down onto the floor of the bus, she could have been one of the ones that got shot because she didn't see them with the guns," Addison said.

Officers took two juvenile boys in for questioning. However, JSO said Friday that the two persons of interest from Thursday are not considered suspects at this time.
 
No arrests have been made in this ongoing investigation.

WJAX