New Jersey state police arrested a Palisades Park man accused of throwing a rock through the window of a school bus on the New Jersey Turnpike, injuring an 8-year-old girl.
Hernando Garcia-Morales, 40, is accused of the Jan. 7 incident on the northbound side of the Turnpike in Teaneck. Officials say Garcia-Morales threw a rock at a school bus transporting children to the Yeshivat Noam school.
The child sustained a skull fracture and will need surgery, school officials said in an email to parents.
Officials say police located Garcia-Morales at a “self-made” campsite inside Old Croaker County Park in Bergen County. They say he is linked to multiple rock-throwing incidents in Bogota.
Garcia-Morales faces multiple charges, including aggravated assault and criminal mischief.