3 months ago
BETHESDA, MD (WUSA) -- Montgomery County Police are investigating the death of a well-known Bethesda activist who was struck by a school bus and killed on Arlington Road here on Wednesday afternoon.
Sixty-year-old Sheila Clark Humphries was in a crosswalk in the Northbound lanes when she was struck by a school bus leaving Arlington Elementary School at the intersection with Moorland Lane.
Montgomery County Police Captain Paul Starks told reporters his agency is interviewing witnesses to determine whether Humphries was walking with or against the pedestrian traffic light at the time she was hit.
The bus, with five students on board, was driven by 43-year-old Gilbert Ventura Fuentes of Hyattsville, Md.
Neither Fuentes nor any of the students were injured.
No charges have been filed, but the investigation continues.
Sheila Clark Humphries was an outreach social worker at the organization Bethesda Cares, which provides services to the homeless.
"She was a lovely person. She was very kind, a very gentle person. She would go out into the office to work with people and she had a very kind low voice where she always spoke to people with respect. I've never heard her raise her voice," said Teresa Maguire, a volunteer at Bethesda Cares.
"She was a very good person. She just wanted to take care of people on the streets and she really had a lot of hope for everybody. She thought that people, that everybody with the right program, the right medication, the right kind of thing, could move on and have a good life," Maguire told 9NEWS NOW.
