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On May 3, 1:45 pm, Affirmative Action <point...@true.info> wrote:
> 3 tots hurt on trip to zoo
> BY MICHAEL D. CLARK | MCL...@ENQUIRER.COM
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> AVONDALE - Buses taking students from three suburban school districts on
> field trips to the city's zoo were hit with bricks and other objects as
> they traveled through Avondale on Thursday, leaving three kindergarten
> students injured.
>
> Three girls from Butler County's Lakota schools were injured when a brick
> was thrown through one of the bus' glass windows near the intersection of
> Forest and Vine streets - about three blocks from the Cincinnati Zoo &
> Botanical Garden, said Cincinnati police.
>
> The girls from Adena Elementary in West Chester Township were accompanied
> by their mothers who were among the many parents on the school field trip.
>
>  All three were taken to nearby Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical
> Center.
>
> Two were treated for wounds from broken glass and released soon after. The
> third girl, according to Sgt. Chris Conner, was treated for a "gash to the
> head" caused by the thrown brick and later released.
>
> Conner said four other school buses - two from Oak Hills schools in
> Hamilton County and two from Walton-Verona schools in Northern Kentucky's
> Boone County - were also hit by thrown objects at about the same time. The
> Adena school bus was hit at about 9:45 a.m., but there were no injuries or
> serious damage to the buses reported by the other school districts, said
> Conner.
>
> "It's kind of a shock to us and we're taking this very seriously," said
> Conner. "A brick can obviously kill some one and we are looking to charge
> some one with felonious assault."
>
> Conner said police suspect the bus attacks are connected and he said
> police officials were meeting Thursday with zoo officials to plan stepped
> up patrols in the neighborhood and increased security outside the zoo.
>
> Police said they are looking for a suspect described as a 16-year-old,
> black male with black hair and brown eyes wearing a dark hooded sweat
> shirt and standing five-foot-six inches tall and weighing 160 pounds.
>
> Jon Weidlich, spokesman for Lakota schools, said the bus driver followed
> "anti-terrorism training" after the bus was hit by not stopping but rather
> proceeding to a safer location - in this case the zoo's parking lot about
> three blocks away.
>
> Weidlich said the uninjured kindergarten students and their parents
> continued on with the field trip of the zoo without further incident.
>
> Amy Allen, principal of Adena Elementary, sent automated phone messages to
> all school parents and also e-mailed a letter to parents about the attack.
>
> Allen wrote that another kindergarten field trip to the zoo scheduled for
> today) would be cancelled and students would instead travel to Keehner
> Park in West Chester Township.
>
> Thane Maynard, co-director of the zoo, issued a statement that the zoo is
> "a safe, family-friendly attraction for guests of all ages."
>
> "We are concerned about all of the children on the bus," said
> Maynard. "This is the first time there has been an incident like this one
> near the zoo and we will continue to work with the Cincinnati Police
> Department, neighborhoods surrounding the zoo and community councils to
> ensure this does not happen again."
>
> Police ask that anyone with information call CrimeStoppers at
> 513-352-3040.
>
> http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070503/NEWS01/3...

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