Shootout Between Bus Driver and Passenger Caught on Camera
Terrifying video shows a wild shootout on a moving North Carolina bus — with the driver returning gunfire with a passenger who pulled a weapon on him for not stopping where he wanted.
The disturbing footage from inside a Charlotte bus shows the hooded passenger — identified by cops as Omarri Shariff Tobias, 20 — strolling to the front demanding to be let off.
The bus driver, David Fullard, shakes his head while telling the passenger he can’t stop at the undesignated spot — sparking a series of threats.
“I dare you to touch me! I’m gonna pop your ass,” the passenger says at one point, according to WSOCTV.
The passenger steps back and pulls out a handgun — seemingly unaware that Fullard was also readying a weapon of his own.
As the passenger walks back and raises his weapon, the driver also opens fire — with around a dozen shots fired through a screen, caught on multiple cameras inside the bus, the local outlet noted.
Video of passenger walking to front of the bus before the shootout.
The passenger walked to the front of the bus and demanded to be let off, the video shows.
Charlotte Area Transit
Screengrab showing passenger pulling out handgun.
When the driver refused to let him out, the hooded passenger pulled out a handgun.
Charlotte Area Transit
Tobias was seen desperately crawling along the bus to a rear door as two other passengers made a hasty retreat — just for the driver to step out and fire three more shots.
Tobias tumbles out of the exit, as does another passenger who was nearby but uninjured. The driver then gets out and fires one more shot at the gunman, who hides behind a clothing bin.
Tobias was hit in the abdomen and initially hospitalized with suspected life-threatening injuries, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said of the May 18 morning shootout.
He was charged last week with assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injuries, communicating threats and carrying a concealed firearm and is being held in jail ahead of a June 6 court date, records show.
Screenshot of shootout.
The driver repeatedly shot back, getting hit in the arm.
Charlotte Area Transit
Screenshot showing hit gunman crawling to the back of the bus.
Suspect Omarri Shariff Tobias, 22, was seen crawling to the back of the bus after being hit in the abdomen.
Charlotte Area Transit
Fullard, the driver, was hit in the arm. He has not been charged, although police stressed that “the investigation” is “active and ongoing.”
However, he was fired from his job of 19 years for breaking rules against being armed, the Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) confirmed to CNN.
“It would have been reasonable for the operator to attempt to de-escalate the situation by allowing the suspect/passenger to exit the bus before arriving at the next bus stop,” the transit system also said.
Fullard’s attorney, Ken Harris, called the driver “a dedicated employee” who “treasured his employment.”
He said that drivers do not feel safe in the city, where another driver, Ethan Rivera, 41, was shot dead last year during a suspected road-rage incident.
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DISGRACED youtuber Johnny Somali Gets Punked out
A KOREAN AMERICAN man from Texas confronted an American livestreamer filming himself harassing train passengers in Tokyo.
Videos of the incident, which involved a content creator known as JohnnySomali, have been widely reshared on various platforms, including Reddit and Twitter.
On his Kick profile, JohnnySomali describes himself as a “Former Child Soldier, Somali Pirate, degen IRL [in real life] streamer. Team FT.” As of this writing, his Kick profile appears to have been taken down.
JohnnySomali also had a Twitch account at one point, but his channel is now “temporarily unavailable due to a violation of Twitch’s Community Guidelines or Terms of Service.”
In a viral screen grab of JohnnySomali’s livestream, the content creator can be seen harassing a Japanese man in white by asking him if he knows what Hiroshima and Nagasaki are.
The Japanese man appears to be confused by what the content creator is saying, especially after the latter says, “Why you do this? Pearl Harbor?”
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JohnnySomali then films other passengers minding their own business and ignoring his remarks.
“Hiroshima, Nagasaki! You know what we do to you n*ggas? Hiroshima, Nagasaki, we destroy because you n*ggas don’t know how to behave,” the livestreamer can be heard saying.
“I swear to God. You do again, we gonna do again. You understand? You understand? Hiroshima? … You n*ggas don’t understand our power,” he continues.
He then turns his attention back to the man in white and says, “Hiroshima, Nagasaki, you know? … We gonna do again.”
As JohnnySomali continues to rant at the man, the latter removes his glasses, says “What?” and moves closer to the livestreamer.
A man in a blue shirt can then be seen approaching JohnnySomali to call him out, saying, “Why don’t you just leave him alone? Leave him alone, man.”
He then asks JohnnySomali where he is from, to which the content creator replies, “America.”
“You’re from America? So am I,” the man in blue says. “You’re being obnoxious.”
“You know what we do to you… We will do again … Hiroshima, Nagasaki,” JohnnySomali tells the man.
“Do you think I’m Japanese?” the latter asks. He then informs JohnnySomali that he is from Texas and is of Korean descent.
“Then stay down, brother,” JohnnySomali replies. “Korean war, you know what happened to you? … You know what we did to you?”
JohnnySomali and the man in blue continue to argue, with the livestreamer eventually saying, “Listen, you know what we did to your country, too. Are you North Korean or South Korean?”
“You’re from America,” the man in blue says. “Why don’t you be a good representation of America? … You don’t make Americans look good doing this sh*t.”
“I don’t give a f*ck about America,” JohnnySomali replies. “I give a f*ck about my money. So sit down, motherf*cker.”
“You’re being rude by talking about Hiroshima and whatever. It’s like, that’s such sh*t content,” the Korean American man tells JohnnySomali, who shares that he has 1,000 subscribers at the time of his livestream.
Around a day after JohnnySomali’s livestream went viral online, receiving over 78,000 upvotes on the subreddit Facepalm and millions of views on Twitter, JohnnySomali uploaded a new video to his YouTube channel to seemingly continue his trolling.
The livestreamer makes several claims in his video. For example, he says that his rant on the train was meant to help President Joe Biden get re-elected as he is coming to Japan to attend the G7 Summit this month.
So in order to help my president and to help his re-election campaign, I decided to bring some publicity to the events that happened 80 years ago. … It was actually patriotic, a little bit… to bring awareness to the tragedy because Joe Biden is coming, and Joe Biden needs our help.
JohnnySomali also attacked the LGBTQ+ community in his video.
I am converting to transgender. I am joining the LGBTQ+ HDTV community. And I’m doing this, I’m doing this, we’re doing this, so we could get cancel culture on my side. … We are going to turn to transgender because I feel like if you can’t beat them in this day and age, you have to join them. … So if I’m part of the LGBTQ+ HDTV [community], how can you guys really cancel me?
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