Police surround Metro bus after gun reported on board

Passengers on a Metro bus in north Houston had a bit of a scare yesterday afternoon when police surrounded the bus because one of the passengers was carrying a gun. At about 4 p.m., a passenger told the bus driver that a woman on the bus was packing heat, so the driver called Metro police and pulled over at a gas station near the North Freeway and Parker. Officers surrounded the bus and the passengers got off with their hands on their heads — which seems to have shaken them up more than the idea of a fellow passenger carrying a gun:

"It was horrible. Fifteen guns, 15 guns pointing at us, we didn't know what to do," said John Richardson, a passenger.

"I didn't know what was going on. They scared the bejesus out of me," said another passenger.

A man and woman were taken into custody; the man was later released, but the woman will be charged with carrying a firearm on a public bus. No one was hurt in the incident and the bus went back into service shortly after the arrests.