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A jury found Justin McGriff guilty of first.
#Bus driver stabbed to death in tampa driver#
He has been charged with first-degree murder. The man convicted of stabbing a HART bus driver in 2019 was sentenced to life in prison. Police apprehended McGriff a few hours later. The guy is actually dead right now, the driver." We were on the bus at it was driving so he jumped off as it was still moving. The operator asks if the assailant is still on the bus.
"This guy just stabbed the bus driver in the neck," the caller says over the sound of other passengers shouting in the background. A recording of the call shows the chaos that erupted following the stabbing. (WFLA) The bus driver who died after being stabbed by a passenger in Tampa on Saturday had previously made complaints about safety, according to a video released Sunday. Terrified passengers who witnessed the incident called police at 4:15 p.m to report Saturday's killing. was arrested after he allegedly stabbed and killed a school bus driver on.

Dunn was able to bravely pull the bus over to the side of the road to save his passengers from an accident. villages at the northern end of Tampa Bay The Pasco County Arrest Records. The cut severed Dunn's carotid and jugular arteries. As Thomas Dunn, 46, drove the public bus down Nebraska Avenue during their argument, McGriff walked up to him brought out a sharp weapon and slashed Dunn's throat after telling him, "God bless you," twice. Justin McGriff was on a Hillsborough Area Regional Transit bus on Saturday afternoon when he began arguing with the driver. In 2019, McGriff walked up to Thomas Dunn as he was driving the public transportation bus and stabbed him in the neck. McGriff is facing life in prison without the possibility of parole.Bus passenger has been charged with murder after he slit the throat of a bus driver in Tampa, Florida. Three years after the stabbing of a HART bus driver, a jury found Justin McGriff guilty of murder and did not believe his defense that he was insane at the time.
#Bus driver stabbed to death in tampa trial#
(Spectrum News image) MURDER TRIAL Guilty verdict in Tampa. Mr Dunn spoke at December meeting claimed no action taken when he was previously assaulted by another. Tampa JJustin McGriff was found guilty of first-degree murder in the 2019 stabbing death of Tampa HART bus driver Thomas Dunn. The deadly encounter was caught on video, something prosecutors used to prove their own argument that McGriff knew what he was doing. Thomas Dunn identified as the bus driver stabbed and killed in Hillsborough county Saturday. The defense still argued mental illness played a role in the attack but the jury of six men and six women rejected that idea. - The Florida State Attorney's Office released graphic surveillance images in the deadly stabbing of a HART bus driver. Prosecutors initially sought the death penalty, but after McGriff was deemed not mentally fit to stand trial and sent for treatment, the State dropped its pursuit of the death penalty and opted for life in prison. McGriff was captured on surveillance video inside the Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Bus walking behind the driver, Thomas Dunn, then plunging a knife into his neck.Īlthough Dunn was able to safely pull the bus over he died as a result of his injuries.
#Bus driver stabbed to death in tampa series#
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