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Cops recover SUV used in road-rage attack

Investigators are narrowing their search into two women who attacked a school bus full of students Thursday afternoon, police said.

This afternoon, detectives from the department's Major Crimes Division located and impounded a gray Chevrolet Suburban that the women were riding in during the bizarre road-rage incident on Roosevelt Boulevard.

The attack occurred at 3:13 p.m. Thursday, as a group of students from the St. Katherine Drexel School in Bensalem were heading home, said Lt. Dennis Rosenbaum of Northeast Detectives.

As the bus neared the intersection of the Boulevard and Levick Street, a verbal spat took place between the students on the bus and a group of four women inside the Suburban, police said.

What exactly was said is unknown, but it clearly upset the SUV's driver, who pulled in front of the bus and blocked its path.

Then, two women got out and went berserk: One sprayed the front of the bus with pepper spray, while another took a baseball bat to the window behind the bus' driver, police said.

Shattered glass from the window cut a 15-year-old boy, who was taken to nearby Gilbert Spruance Elementary School and treated by the school's nurse, police said.

The women fled the scene, but an eagle-eyed student on the bus wrote down part of the Suburban's license-plate number, and investigators picked up the SUV this afternoon as it sat parked on 4th Street near Diamond in North Philadelphia, Rosenbaum said.

A police source said a baseball bat was inside the SUV when it was recovered.

Tonight, detectives interviewed the bus driver, and also took a statement from the student who recorded the license-plate number, according to Rosenbaum.

"We know who owns the car, and we're working our way through the chain to figure out who was inside it at the time," he said.

No arrests have been reported tonight as police continue their investigation.