#Tampa bus driver stabbed to death trial#

Police apprehended McGriff a few hours later. The guy is actually dead right now, the driver.'

We was on the bus at it was driving so he jumped off as it was still moving. The operator asks if the assailant is still on the bus. The man accused of stabbing a Hillsborough Area Regional Transit bus driver to death has been charged with first-degree murder, Tampa Police said. 'This guy just stabbed the bus driver in the neck,' the caller says over the sound of other passengers shouting in the background. A recording of the call shows the chaos that erupted following the stabbing.

Terrified passengers who witnessed the incident called police at 4:15 p.m to report Saturday's killing. Dunn was able to bravely pull the bus over to the side of the road to save his passengers from an accident. A Kansas City man, 28, faces multiple felony charges in connection with the June 1, 2022, fatal shooting of Charles Bradham during a reported robbery, Jackson. Justin McGriff is accused of stabbing Thomas Dunn to death as other passengers.

#Tampa bus driver stabbed to death trial#

A jury found Justin McGriff guilty of first degree murder last month. (WFLA) - A trial begins Monday morning for the man accused of stabbing a HART bus driver in May 2019. The cut severed Dunn's carotid and jugular arteries. The man convicted of stabbing a HART bus driver in 2019 was sentenced to life in prison. As Thomas Dunn, 46, drove the public bus down Nebraska Avenue during their argument, McGriff walked up to him brought out a sharp weapon and slashed Dunn's throat after telling him, 'God bless you,' twice. Justin McGriff was on a Hillsborough Area Regional Transit bus on Saturday afternoon when he began arguing with the driver. Passengers who ride the same bus route where a HART driver was stabbed to death Saturday were back on the bus Monday. A bus passenger has been charged with murder after he slit the throat of a bus driver in Tampa, Florida.