JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. ( KDVR ) — Colorado school bus driver Laura Owen loves her job because she takes pride in safely getting students where they need to go.
That makes what happened to her on Jan. 29 all the more devastating and difficult for her to take in.
Video obtained by Nexstar’s KDVR shows a female student coming up behind Owen at an afternoon stop in Jefferson County. Owen said she initially asked the student’s boyfriend to get off at the stop for moving around the aisle, standing and putting safety in jeopardy.
The video shows the female student hold a phone up to the driver, saying her mother is on the line. Owen is then heard on surveillance video acknowledging the threats she hears on the phone — that this person is going to “kill me” — before asking the female student to exit the bus again.
“We only implement the bus safety that we are instructed to do per district policy and nothing more than that,” Owen said.
After refusing to get off of the bus, the student then goes back to a seat and is seen coming back to Owen and physically assaulting her.