“A South Carolina school bus driver who kept his cool during an armed hijacking hailed all 18 children the real heroes of the high-pressure encounter. Kenneth Corbin spoke exclusively to ‘Good Morning America’ Monday about how he was able to hold off the gunman and what the students said to the man that helped keep them safe for six minutes. ‘The kids were the ones that actually got the gentleman off of the bus and they pretty much had my back as much as my concerns were with them,’ Corbin explained. ‘At the end when they started questioning him, it seemed to have frustrated him because his main objective were to get to the next town, but I think we were only on the road about four miles and he just got frustrated with the questions and just told me to stop the bus and get off. All y’all get off now.’ Police believe Jovan Collazo, the 23-year-old trainee from New Jersey in his third week at Fort Jackson, appeared to be trying to get home. He remains in custody facing two dozen charges, including 19 counts of kidnapping.”

“‘As we were traveling, I guess he realized there were several students on the bus – kind of scattered throughout,’ Corbin said. “He decided to move all the students up front so he could keep us all in close proximity, and when he did that, especially some of my kindergarteners, they started asking questions.’ The students, according to Corbin, asked if the man was a soldier to which he ‘hesitantly answered – ‘yes.” ‘They asked him, ‘Why are you doing this?’ He never did have an answer for this one. They asked, was he going to hurt them? He said ‘No.’ They asked, ‘Are you going to hurt our bus driver?’ He said, ‘No. I’m going to put you off the bus,’’ Corbin recalled. ‘He sensed more questions coming and I guess something clicked in his mind and he said, ‘Enough is enough already,’ and he told me to ‘Stop the bus, and just get off’” – WSB-TV.