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A St. Paul man has been charged with attempted murder for 

 following a freeway collision on Tuesday. 


Kenneth Lilly, 31, faces attempted second-degree murder and second-degree assault charges. He is scheduled to be in court Friday.


The charges say Lilly shot the bus driver, wounding him in the arm and grazing his head when Lilly approached the bus and fired through the windshield. Lilly later called 911 to report the shooting. An 8-year-old girl on the bus was not injured.


Prosecutors say the bus driver was trying to navigate the Interstate 35W-Interstate 94 interchange in poor weather when the bus apparently scraped Lilly's car.

In traffic camera video, the bus appears to be moving as Lilly is walking around, but Chief Deputy Hennepin County Attorney David Brown said the shooting appears unprovoked.

"We do not believe there was a self-defense claim based upon the evidence we have received so far," Brown said. "The words to describe what went on here, we almost run out of ways to describe this. It is just horrific."


Lilly was wearing a security guard's uniform at the time of the shooting. Brown says he doesn't know where the man works, but said he is not a licensed peace officer. 

, the Hennepin County Attorney's Office said:

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Kenneth Lilly, 31, faces attempted second-degree murder and second-degree assault charges stemming from a confrontation near the Interstate 35W-Interstate 94 interchange.

Man charged in shooting of school bus driver on I-35W

A school bus driver was shot on Interstate 35W in Minneapolis.

Man charged in shooting of school bus driver on I-35W

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