Bus Driver Kills Co-Worker Over Gambling Debt

Written by:
C Costigan
Published on:
Sep/27/2024

  • Surveillance footage appears to implicate bus driver in murder of friend he allegedly owed NFL gambling debt.
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  • Kamala Harris narrowly beating Donald Trump in critical swing states.

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Crime

Bus Driver Kills Co-Worker Over NFL Gambling Debt

A Santa Clara County, California bus driver has been arrested and charged on suspicion of gunning down a co-worker in a bus yard over a gambling debt.

33-year-old Duc Minh Bui was charged on Wednesday with murder in the death of Regulus Teotico, 45, a fellow bus driver with the Valley Transportation Authority.

Teotico was found slumped over in his black Mercedes on Sept. 20 shortly after 9:30 p.m. in the Chaboya Yard employee parking lot in San Jose. Surveillance footage from the lot shows Teotico met with a man driving a white Nissan, according to court records. The man was later identified as Bui.

Video footage appears to show the murder. Teotico can be seen speaking to a man near a white vehicle, authorities say. A friend told authorities he parked his car outside of the lot, he heard two or three bangs from the direction of the parking lot. He then saw a white car drive past him heading south.  The friend recounted how he looked back to where Teotico was standing before, the white car was gone. The friend didn’t see the car pull out of the lot, but decided to follow the car that drove past him for a short distance before returning to the parking lot, according to investigators.

At the parking lot, the friend saw Teotico’s car door was open and found his friend sitting in the driver’s seat unresponsive, with blood coming out of his nose, investigators say. Teotico’s friend called 911 at 9:38 p.m. He had been shot several times and paramedics who responded pronounced him dead at 9:53 p.m. according to investigators.

According to reports, In a joking manner, Teotico had earlier described the co-worker who owed him money as a “chubby Vietnamese guy,” according to homicide investigators. Earlier in the week, Teotico told his friend that his co-worker owed him money for sports betting.

Valley Transportation Authority managers later viewed the surveillance footage that captured the shooting and were able to identify the shooter as Bui, according to investigators.

Sheriff’s investigators served a search warrant at Bui’s home and found three firearms, including two .40-caliber Glock 22 handguns, authorities say. All three guns were registered to Bui and detectives also found an empty Glock firearm box with an obliterated serial number, according to court records.

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Politics

Eric Adams to No Longer Serve as Mayor of NYC By Years End According to Gamblers

BetOnline was now has odds up on the next NYC mayor.

Adams was indicted Thursday on federal charges accusing him of taking illegal campaign contributions and bribes from foreign nationals, including lavish overseas trips, in exchange for favors that included helping Turkish officials bypass a fire safety inspection for a new diplomatic tower in the city.  Reports suggest that facility would not have passed the inspection.

Adams, a Democrat and former police captain, faces conspiracy, wire fraud and bribery charges in a five-count indictment outlining a decade-long trail of corruption that began when he served as an elected official in Brooklyn and continued through his mayoral administration.

Adams denies any wrongdoing.

Politics

Harris Narrowly Beating Trump in Latest Swing State Polls

Kamala Harris is narrowly leading former President Trump in six critical battleground states, while the candidates are tied in Georgia, according to new polling.

The survey, published late Thursday by Bloomberg News/Morning Consult, found the Democratic nominee has the edge over Trump in Nevada, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan, North Carolina and Wisconsin.

Harris has a 7-point lead over Trump in Nevada — 52 percent to 45 percent — and a 5-point lead in Pennsylvania, 51 percent to 46 percent. In Arizona and Michigan, the vice president has a 3-point edge over the GOP nominee, 50 percent to 47 percent.

Her lead is much smaller in North Carolina, 50 percent to 48 percent, and Wisconsin, 51 percent to 48 percent. The two White House contenders are tied in Georgia with 49 percent support apiece, the survey found.

Harris is back to being a -120 favorite compared to Trump at +100 after the two were deadlocked just 36 hours prior.

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