Petition Started In Defense Of Athens ISD Bus Driver

Henderson County Jail courtesy KLTV

An online petition was started in support of the Athens ISD bus driver charged in connection with the death of a 14-year-old boy in a bus-train accident. The petition, in support of 78-year-old John Stevens, of Mabank, is urging the Henderson County DA to drop charges of criminally negligent homicide and injury to a child in connection with the January crash. So far, 2000 people have signed the petition.