Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 21, 1990                   TAG: 9003232678
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B1   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: CATHRYN McCUE NEW RIVER VALLEY BUREAU
DATELINE: CHRISTIANSBURG                                 LENGTH: Short

SHOOTING AT BUS PROBED

Sgt. J.R. Peters said local authorities may trade information with other states that are looking into shootings and incidents apparently related to the 3-week old nationwide strike against Greyhound.

Tommy Mullins, international vice president with the Amalgamated Transit Union who lives in Roanoke, said he has no knowledge of the Christiansburg shooting.

"We have maintained from the start that we don't condone violence, and we don't encourage violence, and we do what we can to prevent our membership from participating in anything of this nature," Mullins said.

Peters said there were no suspects in Tuesday's shooting, in which three shots were fired at a bus on Interstate 81. None of the roughly 50 people aboard was injured in the incident.

Virginia investigators are unsure if the shooting is related to a bomb threat of a bus traveling from Roanoke to Radford during the first week of the strike, he said.

"They're both probably strike related although we don't know that," Peters said. He said that for now, police are investigating the two incidents as locally perpetrated, but may contact authorities outside Virginia.

During the strike there have been at least 14 shooting attacks on Greyhound buses. Eight people were injured in one sniper attack in Jacksonville, Fla., last week.

Unions representing 6,300 drivers and an estimated 3,000 other Greyhound workers walked out March 2 over wages, job security and grievance procedures.