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Mother of student who narrowly escaped injury during gun incident speaks Cindy Aguirre-Herrera
Bus Driving HERO Seguin ISD bus driver Eric Alexander was honored with this month’s Apple Award presented to him by Superintendent Matthew Gutierrez. Alexander was the bus driver when a child accidently discharged a firearm in the school bus. See story on page 2.
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(Seguin) -- Today we are learning more about the accidental shooting that occurred last week on a Seguin ISD school bus, and the impact that it continues to have on some students. Dawna Mangrum says it was her 7-year-old daughter’s bus seat that was struck by a bullet after an elementary school student on that bus discharged a loaded gun -- minutes after pulling into the bus loop outside of Jefferson Avenue Elementary School. The incident was reported just days into the new school year on Tuesday, Aug. 22. Speaking on Tuesday night before members of the Seguin ISD Board of Trustees, Mangrum shared details about that day. A day that her second grader at Jefferson will never forget. “The seat itself and the school bus are designed in such a fashion there is steel under the upholstery. The presence of that steel might have saved the lives of at least one
student sitting in the seat. My name is Dawna Mangrum and my daughter Charley was that ‘one student’ saved by a bit of steel. I am here tonight to present an education initiative to the board to help prevent an incident like what happened last week. Since the massacre at Robb Elementary, I have had recurrent nightmares of having to call my loved ones to tell them ‘It’s Charley’s school.’ Two weeks ago, the PreK program Charley attended 3 years ago found a firearm in a child’s backpack. I was immediately taken to my nightmare - she didn’t attend anymore, but it was my daughter’s school. Little did I know that exactly one week later, Charley would be sharing fruit roll ups with her friend on the bus while a bullet discharged into the back of her seat. It’s no longer ‘too close to home.’ It’s in my damn home and we will forever live with the aftermath of this trauma,” said Mangrum. Mother, pg. 4