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Woman pleads guilty to 2023 killing of SEPTA bus driver

She is scheduled to be sentenced on October 9.

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Tuesday, August 4, 2026
Woman pleads guilty to 2023 killing of SEPTA bus driver
A woman has pleaded guilty nearly three years after the deadly shooting of a SEPTA bus driver in Philadelphia's Germantown neighborhood.
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PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A woman has pleaded guilty nearly three years after the deadly shooting of a SEPTA bus driver in Philadelphia's Germantown neighborhood.

District Attorney Larry Krasner says 24-year-old Zhontay Capers admitted to killing 45-year-old Bernard Gribbin, who was shot while driving a Route 23 bus in October of 2023.

45-year-old Bernard Gribbin was shot while driving a Route 23 bus in October of 2023.
45-year-old Bernard Gribbin was shot while driving a Route 23 bus in October of 2023.

Capers pleaded guilty to third-degree murder and several gun charges after originally facing a first-degree murder trial.

A woman has pleaded guilty nearly three years after the deadly shooting of a SEPTA bus driver in Philadelphia's Germantown neighborhood.
A woman has pleaded guilty nearly three years after the deadly shooting of a SEPTA bus driver in Philadelphia's Germantown neighborhood.

She is scheduled to be sentenced on October 9.

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