

“Right now, the focus is on the well-being of all of our employees and students,” he said. School officials have started discussions about safety, but are focused on getting life back to normal at Longfellow and at the transportation department, Shane Edinger, the district’s director of public affairs said. On Monday morning, teachers and other school employees showed support for their nearly 100 bus drivers, waving homemade signs with hearts and words of encouragement as they arrived with kids. More than 50 school buses participated in the memorial motorcade. Lenhart, 72, of Richland, was stabbed to death in front of 35 students aboard a school bus Sept. Pasco police also stationed officers near the school. PASCO - People lined 10th Avenue as more than 100 school buses and emergency vehicles paraded through the city in memory of bud driver Richard Lenhart on Saturday morning. The Pasco School District offered support over the weekend for students and teachers and sent counselors to the school Monday. A school bus driver was fatally stabbed in front of students after picking them up from a Washington state elementary school Friday afternoon, authorities said. Students from Longfellow Elementary School in Pasco were. Sometimes its forensic evidence and sometimes its merely re-examining clues, but cold cases do occasionally get solved. None of the children on the bus was hurt. A bus driver in Washington state was fatally stabbed in front of a group of elementary school students riding the bus Friday, police said.

The assailant stayed at the school until police arrived and cooperated with authorities during his arrest, police Capt. Lenhart had been a driver for the Pasco district for six years. An autopsy is being scheduled, according to Franklin County Coroner Curtis McGary. Lenhart, of Kennewick, died at a hospital. Police have not said why they believe the man got on the bus.Īfter the attack, Lenhart apparently lost control of the bus, drove over a curb and a sidewalk before hitting some bushes and a tree at the school. when a man boarded his bus and stabbed him, The Tri-City Herald reported.
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Richard Lenhart, 72, was picking up students at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasco as classes were letting out at 3:10 p.m. PASCO - Authorities have identified a school bus driver in eastern Washington who was stabbed on Friday in front of a busload of elementary children.
