HOUSTON — Federal prosecutors have filed new charges against one of the teens accused in a deadly shooting aboard a Houston METRO bus earlier this month
The new allegations claim that Patrick Santana Scott opened fire with a handgun that was modified to fire automatically.
Scott, 18, already jailed on related state charges, now faces federal counts of illegally possessing a machine gun and unlawfully receiving a firearm and ammunition while under indictment, U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei announced this week.
A violent confrontation on a city bus
The shooting unfolded on the afternoon of Jan. 7 when a METRO bus carrying multiple passengers stopped at a west Houston intersection. Court documents allege Scott was seated near the rear of the bus with a backpack when another rider — later identified as 17-year-old Brayden Smith — boarded and headed toward him…