US Edition8-Year-Old Girl Left with Fractured Skull After Rock Thrown Into School Bus in Teaneck
Authorities classify the incident as aggravated assault and urge witnesses to provide dashcam footage or information to aid the search for the suspect.
- Shortly after 2 p.m., a rock shattered a school bus window on the New Jersey Turnpike near Exit 70A/B in Teaneck, striking an 8-year-old third-grader returning to Yeshivat Noam from Liberty Science Center.
- Officials say the motive is unclear and New Jersey State Police are investigating the incident as an aggravated assault, noting the bus had no identifying markings.
- Medical officials reported the child's condition on Jan. 9 and said the 8-year-old underwent surgery at Hackensack University Medical Center, is stable, and may go home next week.
- State Police released images and urged witnesses to contact the New Jersey State Police Troop D Newark Station Detective Bureau, while Teaneck Mayor Mark J. Schwartz and Deputy Mayor Elie Katz offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.
- The school deployed support teams, and Katie Katz said `From a community perspective, this has been a very challenging time for the Jewish community, so people are understandably afraid`, while Elie Katz urged residents to check cameras, as `Your dashcam video could be worth money`.
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Police On Hunt For Person Who Threw Rock At School Full Of Children, Splitting Open Little Girl's Skull
New Jersey authorities are searching for the person who allegedly hurled a baseball-sized rock through a school bus window, fracturing an 8-year-old girl's skull.
Rock thrown at NJ school bus leaves 8-year-old girl with fractured skull
Authorities in New Jersey are searching for the person who threw a rock at a school bus traveling on the Turnpike, critically injuring an 8-year-old girl. The incident unfolded Wednesday afternoon in the northbound lanes of the New Jersey Turnpike in Teaneck Township, according to New Jersey State Police. The bus had been traveling back to Yeshivat Noam, a Jewish day school in Paramus, from a field trip to the Liberty Science Center in Jersey Ci…
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