The Villaruel brothers hopped on the yellow school bus Friday morning as usual.
It stopped right in front of their South Deering house at about 7:45 a.m., and rolled out once Adrian, 11, and Oscar, 8, made their way to the back.
Their mom, Rosana Villaruel, was watching from the front door when everyone heard something snap.
“Like running over a tree branch,” Adrian explained Friday after returning home from Our Lady of Guadalupe School.
“I thought it was something like his tire popped, or he ran over a big bottle of glass,” his mother said. “I didn’t realize it was actually a shooting.”
She didn’t find out a bullet was fired until the school called her later that morning.
How soon until someone suggests a new "bus initiative" to be implemented in the hopes of getting a gold star?