Police are still searching for whoever shot at the Jesse Jackson Academy school bus December 9 as it was stopped in the 5800 block of Mesa Drive at 10 p.m. One of the bullets pierced a bus window and hit Gregory Grant in the head. There were 23 students aboard the bus during the shooting.
Grant is the southeast Houston charter schools assistant principal and basketball coach. The schools team was returning home after a basketball game against Smiley High School Friday night.
Grant was released from Ben Taub Hospital Monday, December 12. The bullet ricocheted off his skull and left a blood clot on his brain. Grant is now unable to use the left side of his body. He is expected to recover after extensive physical therapy.
Students said they saw three men standing near the bushes along the side of the road and believe they may have been the shooters.
This was the second of three shooting at a school bus in the Houston area.
On Tuesday, December 13, someone fired a BB gun at a Cy-Fair ISD bus as it drove near Eldridge and West Little York. Flying glass from the shot hit a sixth grader in the neck. Authorities are still investigating the incident.
Earlier in the month, an eighth grade Cy-Fair student was caught after he shot a BB gun at the window of a parked school bus full of children. No one was injured in that incident. The student was disciplined.