2001 Greyhound bus attack

The Federal Bureau of Investigation established that Igrić had boarded the Greyhound bus in Chicago. The bus was carrying 39 passengers at the time, and was travelling from Chicago to its final destination of Orlando, Florida. At 4 a.m., while the bus was travelling on Interstate 24 near Manchester, southeast of Nashville, Tennessee, Igrić lunged at the driver and slashed his throat. He proceeded to grab the steering wheel in an attempt to direct the vehicle into oncoming traffic. Five of the deceased victims were identified as 29-year-old Matthew Hawkins of Pierceton, Indiana, 52-year-old Tommy Montgomery of Hunstville, Alabama, 75-year-old Marian Nalls of Euclid, Ohio, 73-year-old Amelia Nerio of Lake Wales, Florida and 68-year-old Fannie Jones of Stone Mountain, Georgia. ==Greyhound response==

Media attention to the attack was intense, with suggestions of terrorist activity. The United States was on edge, as the event happened less than a month after the September 11 attacks. A temporary nationwide shutdown of the Greyhound bus service was put into effect. No extra security measures were immediately taken in response to this incident. However, following a very similar incident almost a year later, Greyhound Lines installed partitions on most of its newer coaches that, even if forced open, would prevent someone from easily reaching the driver directly. ==Attacker==

Igrić was born in 1972 in Slavonski Brod, Yugoslavia (now Croatia). During his late teenage years he trained as a locksmith in vocational school. He joined the Croatian army in 1991, when he was 19, and was discharged in 1993, after what the ambassador of Croatia, Ivan Grdešić, described as "violent behavior and substance abuse... he was connected with crimes in Croatia." When ethnic tensions began to flare during the mid-nineties he joined others in Croatia's "homeland war" of independence from Yugoslavia. ==See also==