{"id":32881,"date":"2024-09-30T21:49:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T02:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=32881"},"modified":"2024-10-01T06:52:34","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T11:52:34","slug":"accused-la-metro-bus-hijacker-charged-with-murder-kidnapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=32881","title":{"rendered":"Accused LA Metro bus hijacker charged with murder, kidnapping"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Prosecutors filed murder, kidnapping, robbery, and carjacking charges Monday against the man suspected of hijacking an LA Metro bus<\/a> last week, murdering a passenger, and leading police on an hour-long chase through downtown Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lamont A. Campbell faces a total of 12 counts, including a special allegations for the use of a gun during the crime, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The criminal complaint revealed that at least 1 of the passengers on the hijacked bus was robbed during the ordeal, but officials said the motive behind Campbell\u2019s alleged actions were still, \u201cunder investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf Mr. Campbell is found guilty he\u2019s facing a total of 90 years, 9 months to life in prison,\u201d said LA County District Attorney George Gasc\u00f3n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Campbell, 51, was arrested last week after LAPD SWAT officers stormed the bus, rescued the bus operator, and tried to save a wounded passenger, later identified as Anthony Rivera, who was bleeding from a gunshot wound to his thigh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rivera, 48, died at a hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was riding the Metro bus to commute home from his job at Dodger Stadium when it was commandeered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI just want justice for my boy,\u201d Rivera\u2019s mother Teresa told the I-Team last week, when she and other members of her family demanded that officials improve safety on public transit lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several other passengers on the bus were described in court papers filed Monday as victims of various crimes that occurred during the hijacking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LA County Supervisor Janice Hahn, who also chairs the Metro transit system board of directors, said crime that occurs on the Metro system is often a reflection of what goes on in the communities it serves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut when it happens on a Metro bus or a train, it obviously becomes national news,\u201d Hahn said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd I think we\u2019re not the only city that\u2019s even had a bus hijacking, I think that happened in a couple of other cities across the country,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hahn said she supports the installation of some kind of screening system to prevent people from carrying weapons on to busses or trains, and said she\u2019d like to see a more visible law enforcement presence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Campbell was set to make an initial appearance in court in Downtown LA Monday but refused to be brought into the courtroom, according to reporters monitoring the proceeding. Officials expected Campbell to be brought to court Tuesday for an arraignment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Prosecutors filed murder, kidnapping, robbery, and carjacking charges Monday against the man suspected of hijacking an LA Metro bus last week, murdering a passenger, and leading police on an hour-long chase through downtown Los Angeles. Lamont A. Campbell faces a total of 12 counts, including a special allegations for the use of a gun during the crime, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":32882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[8368,2862,3097,1350,1584,2364,30638],"class_list":["post-32881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-carjacking","tag-kidnapping","tag-los-angeles","tag-man","tag-murder","tag-robbery","tag-subway-bus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32883,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32881\/revisions\/32883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}