Video shows quick-thinking bystander stop runaway St. Paul school bus

A bystander's split-second decision saved a school bus driver and the kids on board Monday on the east side of St. Paul, Minnesota.It happened outside Ya Bricks Snacks and Tobacco off North Mendota Street and Fremont Avenue East in the Dayton's Bluff neighborhood.Surveillance camera footage from the store shows Ebro Ahmed sprint toward the bus. He had just seen the driver drop off some kids when the bus kept rolling forward with the doors still opened.Surveillance footage shows Ebro Ahmed rush into the runaway school bus in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Oct. 19, 2026. Ya Bricks Snacks and Tobacco Ahmed saw the driver was having a medical issue, jumped inside and stopped the bus. "It caught me by surprise because I was kind of confused about the door open," Ahmed said. "So then I ran towards the bus and noticed he was having an emergency so I just hopped on there."Ahmed said that at first, he wasn't able to stop the bus. He tried to thro