MIDDLETOWN — Police have arrested a man they believe to be responsible for shots fired at students after they departed from a school bus Thursday afternoon, Jan. 21.

William Michael Maloney, 54, was arrested following the shooting in a 2nd Ward neighborhood shortly after 3 p.m., WKRC Local 12 reported late Thursday night.

Maloney faces a number of charges, including inducing panic, felonious assault, improper discharge of a firearm and endangering children, according to Local 12.

Police said they responded to the scene at 3:30 p.m. Dispatchers received a report of a man in a pickup truck firing a gun near children getting off the school bus, according to police.

A woman at the scene said her son and best friend’s daughter burst into their home on Ogden Drive after getting off the school bus screaming that a man had shot at them.

“We were standing in the kitchen when they said some man shot at us so we went to the front window and looked out and the man saw us and pointed the gun at us and fired at us, too,” she said.