Exterior Bus Camera Catches Shooter Firing on CTA Transit Bus

A man charged in the fatal shooting of a Julian High School student on a CTA bus was captured on video firing toward the bus after arguing with another passenger moments earlier, prosecutors disclosed Friday.

Milton Wardlaw, charged with murder in the Sunday night slaying of Kiyanna Salter, 17, was ordered held without bail by Cook County Circuit Judge Donald Panarese.

At the bail hearing, Assistant State's Atty. Emily Leuin said three passengers and the driver of a car behind the bus all identified Wardlaw as the gunman. In addition, four security cameras inside the bus captured the altercation that led to the shooting, she said.

A camera on the exterior of the bus caught Wardlaw as he walked several feet from the bus, turned, raised a gun and fired, Leuin said.



A funeral service for Salter will be held at noon Monday at St. Sabina Church, 7801 S. Throop St., after a viewing at 11 a.m.

At an anti-violence rally Friday at the Thompson Center attended by hundreds of Julian students, Ronald Holt praised Wardlaw's mother for imploring her son to surrender to authorities. Holt's son, Blair, a Julian honor student, was fatally shot on a CTA bus last year.

"She did the right thing," said Holt.

Tribune reporter Carlos Sadovi also contributed to this report.

mwalberg@tribune.com