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August 22, 2013|By Arelis R. Hernández, Orlando Sentinel

A 16-year-old boy is facing felony charges after he allegedly attacked an Orange County school-bus driver Tuesday because he wrote down the teen's license-plate number, a report indicated.

Alvin Lanning, 58, was picking up students on his way to Lockhart Middle School when a white BMW whipped by the bus while it was stopped and its red lights were flashing, the Orange County Sheriff's Office said.

Lanning spotted the vehicle that had passed his bus and paused to write down the license-plate number to turn him in for a traffic violation.

Seeing this, the automobile's teen driver confronted the bus driver.

According to the report Lanning gave deputies, the teenager walked aggressively toward the closed bus doors and swung around to the driver's sliding window.

He punched Lanning in the face and took his $800 glasses, according to a report from the Orange County Sheriff's Office.

Surveillance cameras on board the bus captured the sudden assault with schoolchildren aboard. It has not been released publicly.

The accused attacker fled in his vehicle with at least two other young men.

Deputies stopped the car later and detained two of them, but the suspected attacker again fled the scene.

Lanning identified his adolescent assailant in a photo lineup that included the teenager's booking photo from a previous arrest.

The two witnesses detained by deputies also confirmed the 16-year-old's involvement in the incident, the report said.

The two young men are also facing charges after deputies said they helped their friend break Lanning's glasses.

Orange County deputies arrested the juvenile at his home, and he was charged with burglary of a conveyance, battery of a school official and grand theft.

The Orlando Sentinel is not identifying him because he is a minor.

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