The daughter of a 2024 bus hijacking victim has filed a lawsuit saying the bus operator, Gwinnett County and the city of Atlanta are all to blame for not noticing the shooter’s erratic behavior long before the trigger was pulled.
The incident, which was part of a double-whammy of violent encounters for the hijacker that day, was preventable and should have been better controlled, according to a wrongful-death suit filed by Jazzmyn Byrd, the daughter of a man who was shot during the hijacking.
For one thing, Byrd said, the bus driver had plenty of time to observe the situation as it escalated, yet failed to maintain order, communicate with dispatch and his supervisors, and didn’t seek help from law enforcement, according to the suit. Byrd seeks to hold the unnamed driver, Ride Gwinnett operator Transdev Services, and the city of Atlanta liable for her father’s death…