Accused LA Metro bus hijacker charged with murder, kidnapping – NBC Los Angeles

Prosecutors on Monday filed murder, kidnapping, robbery and carjacking charges against the man suspected of hijacking a Los Angeles subway bus last week, murdering a passenger and leading police on an hour-long chase through downtown to have.

Lamont A. Campbell also faces special charges of using a firearm in the commission of the crime and being a felon in possession of a firearm.

Campbell, 51, was arrested last week after LAPD SWAT officers stormed the bus, rescued the bus operator and attempted to save an injured passenger, later identified as Anthony Rivera, who was bleeding from a gunshot wound to the thigh.

Rivera, 48, died at a hospital.

He was riding the Metro bus home from his job at Dodger Stadium when it was impounded.

“I just want justice for my boy,” Rivera’s mother, Teresa, told the I-Team last week as she and other members of her family called on officials to improve safety on public transit.

According to reporters monitoring the proceedings, Campbell was scheduled to make his first court appearance in downtown L.A. on Monday but refused to be brought into the courtroom.

Court and prison records show Campbell previously served two sentences in state prison for drug trafficking or trafficking convictions and pleaded no contest to a drug possession charge in 2018.