David L. Ferry, 57, was fired after being charged with criminal possession of a weapon on school grounds. State police say Ferry had purchased a .22-caliber rifle and placed it under his seat while driving a school bus with 12 students on board.

Morris was behind the wheel of his Toyota Tacoma on the morning of Jan. 22, when he spotted flames shooting from a second-story window in Jackson Township, Ohio. Morris recognized the house immediately. He knew that Matt and Jordan Fisher lived there with their four young children, two of whom ride Morris’s bus.

A Naples Central School District bus driver was arrested on Monday after authorities found a .22 caliber rifle under a seat of his school bus. David L. Ferry, 57, was charged with criminal possession of a weapon on school grounds, a felony, and endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor.

New York State Police apprehended a school bus driver from central New York after he purchased a .22 caliber rifle and was “observed driving away in a Naples school bus