JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office has released more information pertaining to a woman and teenage boy who they say shot at at a school bus near UF Health Monday.
Nailah Doles, 23, and Jayden Mobley, 17, are facing attempted murder charges after police said a bullet hit the bus's window while dozens of children were inside near 2200 block of Doctor Roy Baker Street. The driver and children were able to get off of the bus and go to a "reunification" area to reunite parents with their children.
According to the arrest report, Doles and Mobley were arrested at University Plaza Apartments and were involved with "multiple individuals were discharging firearms at each other after an argument in the parking area of the complex."
Officers said the trajectory of the bullet strike on the bus indicated the bullet came from the northwest side of the complex, the report said.
The suspects who were shooting fled the area in a black Jeep, according to JSO. Cameras at 13th Street West and Davis Street North captured a black Jeep SUV, "arriving and parking at the S Line Urban Greenway Phase 1 Trail" and later running through the apartment complex.
The Jeep was found at 1758 W. 11th St., approximately 1.5 miles from the reported shooting, and officers observed a Buick leave the same residence before conducted a traffic stop on it, citing an odor of marijuana coming from the vehicle. Though officers did not see the clothing or firearms in the Buick, they searched the apartment, identified Doles and Mobley and found ammunition for a handgun, the report said.
Doles' and Mobley's comments to police were redacted in the report.
The report states there are 27 victims, most of whom are students and bus driver Carol Houston, who was lauded as a hero for telling her students to "stay down" and driving away from the incident when she heard the bullets.
Houston said she had to act quickly for the safety of the kids onboard.
“I finished hearing the bullets I got up myself and told them to stay down and I got back in the driver seat it was glass all over the seat but I wanted to make sure my babies were safe so getting them out of harms way was my biggest thing. So I got back in the driver seat and got to a safer spot," she said.
Once she drove her students to safety, Houston called her boss, Meltonia Wright.
"She was like 'Miss Toni they shot my bus, I got a bullet hole in front of my bus,'" Wright said. "It was just horrific, it was just horrible. It was just too much. I would have never seen this coming.”
Wright, along with parents of students onboard, called Houston a hero.
“She’s our hero. I tell her that. You are our hero, you saved my babies, and I couldn’t ask for nothing more from you. I’m very grateful Miss Houston saved our kids," Wright said.