Man arrested for fatal shooting on Broward bus convicted of murder

WESPARK, Fla. A Fort Lauderdale man accused of shooting dead a fellow bus passenger in Broward County Transit after an altercation is now behind bars.

Mario Alphonso Williams, 51, is on trial for premeditated murder in the death of Joseph Jackson, 42, on Sunday, Broward Sheriff said Tuesday. According to records, Williams had earlier been convicted of murder.

Investigators say there was a “brief verbal altercation” Sunday afternoon and that Williams showed Jackson that he had a gun and threatened to kill him.

Deputies say that when the bus stopped and Jackson went off, Williams opened fire and shot Jackson in the back several times.

Williams then left the bus and fired additional laps into the Jackson before running away from the scene, investigators said.

A witness allegedly saw this happen and followed the shooter off the bus and watched as he threw away evidence, including a gun and a bible. Mario Williams’ name was written on one of the pages of the bible, according to authorities, which led to his arrest.

A 911 call came near the intersection of Southwest 35th Street and South State Road 7 in West Park shortly before 2 p.m. Sunday.

When delegates arrived, they found Jackson, from Miami Gardens, on the sidewalk with multiple gunshot wounds. He was rushed to Memorial Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.

Family members say Jackson was bipolar and schizophrenic, and that he talked to himself regularly. They wonder if it caused the quarrel on the bus and ask themselves why it had to lead to violence.

“You could stop,” Jackson’s great aunt, Rosa Taylor, said. “You could say, ‘He’s leaving, it’s not worth it, he’s no threat to me. ‘What he said could only make it roll over your head. ”

Authorities are still trying to figure out how things are escalating so fast.

After his arrest, Williams appeared before a judge on Tuesday and is being held in Broward Prison without a warrant.

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