FORT COLLINS, Colo. (KDVR) — The Poudre School District and Fort Collins Police Services honored two transportation workers on Tuesday for their efforts to stop an intruder who was trying to get onto a school bus full of kids on Sept. 3 .
Destinea Armenta, the bus driver, said she was making a regular stop to let a few kids off the bus across the street from the Murphy Center, a place that helps people experiencing homelessness.
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That’s when a man tried to get onto the bus and Armenta yelled at him to get off.
“He wasn’t welcome. I had several students on board who were very frantic,” Armenta said, adding that the man was not violent.
Dory Pickering, a paraprofessional, was also on the bus. “He had a Bible in his hand, and he said, ‘My children,’ like he was some kind of prophet. Destinea put her hand on his chest and shoved him as far as she could off the bus. He held really tightly to the handrails and shortly after that a security officer from the Murphy Center came,” Pickering said.