The victim is expected to survive. The South L.A. kids were apparently showing off a handgun on the bus to school when the accidental shooting occured, the Times says.

* AP says: It was a nine-year-old who fired the gun, it was an 11-year-old who was hurt, and it was Compton not Los Angeles.

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