A 14-year-old Tennessee teen stole a school bus, tried to run someone over, and led officers on a chase along the interstate, Nashville police says
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A 14-year-old boy stole a school bus, hit a car, tried to run over someone, then led officers on a chase on Tennessee’s Interstate 40, according to the Nashville police.
The teen stole the school bus from the Kipp College Prep school in Nashville’s Antioch neighborhood on Saturday afternoon, per a news release by the Metro Nashville Police Department seen by the Associated Press.
The release stated that the unnamed teen took the bus through the city, hitting a diesel fuel pump and attempting to run over someone at a gas station in the process, per the AP.
Soon after, the teen drove the school bus westward on the I-40 and hit a car in the process, police said.
He then led officers on a vehicle chase on the highway at speeds of over 65 miles per hour, before the police deployed a spike strip to stop him, per the local WHIO TV news outlet.
“The teen evidently saw the spike strip, slowed the bus, and attempted to turn around in the middle of the westbound lanes,” the AP reported, citing the police news release.
The release said that as the teen tried to turn the bus around, officers ran up to it, broke open its glass doors, and tased him, per the AP.
The teen was arrested and placed in juvenile detention, per the AP. He now faces multiple charges — vehicle theft, aggravated assault, evading arrest, reckless driving, driving without a license, leaving the scene of a crash, and failure to report a collision.
The Metro Nashville Police Department did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment sent outside regular business hours.