Couple accused of boarding Greenwood school bus, assaulting students

GREENWOOD, Ind. (WISH) — A couple have each been accused of boarding a Greenwood Community Schools bus without permission and criminally hitting kids, authorities say.

Patrolman Aiden Pryor said in court documents that Donquarious Ridley, 27, and Raven Barner, 25, boarded a bus Oct. 31 at Dover Drive and Scarborough Lane. That’s at the Westminster Apartments just southeast of the intersection of U.S. 31 and County Line Road.

Ridley and Barner, who live in an Indianapolis apartment off East Stop 11 Road between U.S. 31 and Madison Avenue, each face two battery charges against minors in the case, court documents show.

Ridley and Barner had boarded the bus and began yelling at multiple students for bullying their child and struck at least two students, a juvenile on the bus told the patrolman.

A camera on the bus showed Ridley and Barner board the bus without permission, and “striking” students, Pryor wrote in the court documents. Police got the video from the director of operations for the school district.

The couple was arrested shortly after officers reviewed the camera footage.

Barner and Ridley have an initial hearing set for 9 a.m. Dec. 1 in Johnson Circuit Court in Franklin, online records show. The Johnson County Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday shared redacted copies of court documents with News 8.

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