Police seek to establish timeline after boy, 9, left alone on school bus in Blackwood

BLACKWOOD, N.J. (WPVI) -- Police are going through surveillance video to establish a timeline as they try to figure out how a 9-year-old boy was left alone on a school bus in Blackwood, New Jersey.

The boy's mother, Wanda Chandler, told Action News that her son boarded the bus around 8 a.m. Thursday to attend summer school at Union Valley Elementary School.

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A South Jersey mother says her 9-year-old son woke up alone in a bus yard after falling asleep on the school bus on Thursday.

Chandler said her son fell asleep and woke up a couple of hours later on the bus. She said the child then wandered through the bus lot looking for help.

Chandler said a district employee found her son walking through the parking lot, asked his name and age, and brought him inside.

The school district has not responded to requests for comment.