Prosecutors filed murder, kidnapping, robbery, and carjacking charges Monday against the man suspected of hijacking an LA Metro bus last week, murdering a passenger, and leading police on an hour-long chase through downtown Los Angeles.
Lamont A. Campbell also faces special allegations for use of a gun during the crime, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Campbell, 51, was arrested last week after LAPD SWAT officers stormed the bus, rescued the bus operator, and tried to save a wounded passenger, later identified as Anthony Rivera, who was bleeding from a gunshot wound to his thigh.
Rivera, 48, died at a hospital.
He was riding the Metro bus to commute home from his job at Dodger Stadium when it was commandeered.
“I just want justice for my boy,” Rivera’s mother Teresa told the I-Team last week, when she and other members of her family demanded that officials improve safety on public transit lines.
Campbell was set to make an initial appearance in court in Downtown LA Monday but refused to be brought into the courtroom, according to reporters monitoring the proceeding.
Court and prison records showed Campbell had previously served 2 terms in state prison on narcotics trafficking or sales convictions, and in 2018 pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor drug possession charge.