A Warner University student is facing dozens of charges for allegedly shooting BB gun pellets at two Polk County school buses last week.
Phillip Smith II, 18, was arrested on Wednesday and charged with 42 counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in connection to the shootings on September 25.
A silver Lexus was caught on camera last Friday shooting at the buses that were carrying a combined total of 39 children. One bus was in the area of Spring Lake Mobile Home community, approximately one mile south of Lem Carnes Road on Highway 17-92 when witnesses heard glass breaking.
The second bus was also traveling on Highway 17-92 near the area of Bates Road.
There were no injuries.
Investigators found the Lexus parked at Warner University after receiving a tip.
Smith was currently living as a student and attended the university on partial basketball scholarship. A BB gun and pellets were found inside the car.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said Smith told detectives he was just "test firing" the gun and not aiming at the buses.
"Come on man, we were born in the morning, but it wasn't yesterday," Judd said. "You deliberately shot at school buses full of elementary-aged children. And it was a good day for those children, and for all of us, because the driver didn't loose control when the window blasted out next to her and rolled that bus over and killed a lot of children."
The president of the university said Smith has been dismissed from the school.