Louisville police arrest two in JCPS bus stop killing
Sep 02, 2026
Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg credited the arrests to eyewitnesses and police technology.(Jacob Ryan / LPM )Louisville Metro Police on Tuesday arrested two people in connection to the bus stop shooting last week that killed 16-year-old Dannady Greene.Police officials, Mayor Craig Greenberg and Je
fferson County Public Schools superintendent Brian Yearwood provided some details of the investigation during a press conference Wednesday afternoon at LMPD headquarters.They did not name the two people arrested or say where they attended school. Both were juveniles at the time of the shooting. One is 16-years-old and another turned 18 since the shooting.Greenberg and LMPD homicide commander Lt. Les Skaggs said they hope both are eventually charged as adults — a process that would bring stiffer penalties if they’re ultimately convicted.The shooting is the third at a JCPS bus stop in recent years. The 2021 killing of Tyree Smith sparked the expansion of the school district’s police force. That shooting came despite JCPS and LMPD knowing of threats to a student on Smith’s bus, according to an LPM investigation.Todd Kessinger, the executive administrator of security and investigations at JCPS, on Wednesday said district officials had no prior indication that a shooting would occur at Greene’s bus stop.Skaggs, the homicide commander, said Dannady Greene and one of the suspects, a girl, had previously had an “altercation,” but he did not provide additional details.The shooting occurred just before 8:00 a.m. on Aug. 25 near the corner of Beech and Wyandotte streets in Park DuValle. LMPD credited eyewitnesses for detailing the suspects’ car, which police tracked to Jeffersonville using license plate reader cameras.Jeffersonville Police used video surveillance tools to pinpoint the suspects at an apartment and conducted a search that found two guns. One eventually matched the weapon used in Dannady Greene's killing, Skaggs said. Police also tracked the suspects’ cell phones to the scene of the shooting, he said.At Wednesday’s press conference, Greenberg said it’s “incomprehensible” that a shooting would happen at a school bus stop. He implored parents to know what their kids are doing and who they’re friends are.And though he pointed to statistics that show the “city is safe,” he said Greene’s killing is a painful reminder “that we have so much work to do.”
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