An apparent BB gun shooting on the H-1 freeway near Aloha Stadium on Saturday shattered the glass of a tour bus window, causing shards to fall onto a woman in her 70s, who was seated next to the window.

It was one of at least a half-dozen apparent BB gun shootings starting Sept. 22, police said. The five other cases were in the Wahiawa and Pearl City areas:

>> On Sept. 22 at 5:45 p.m, a juvenile male was sitting at a bus stop on Hoolaulea Street in front of Highlands Intermediate School in Pearl City when he suffered a superficial wound in the back from a BB gun, police said.

>> On Sept. 24 at 7:55 p.m., a victim was standing in a parking lot on North Kamehameha Highway when he was shot in the hand by a BB gun, police said.

>> Two incidents involving BB guns damaging vehicles occurred at about 8:45 a.m. Sept. 25 near the Dole Plantation north of Wahiawa. In one of the cases, a rear passenger door was damaged, police said. In the other case, the vehicle’s rear window was shattered by a round from a BB gun.

>> On Sept. 26 at 11:25 a.m., a BB gun was fired into the front window of a Wahiawa business on Kilani Avenue, damaging it.

In Saturday’s shooting, Aloha Hawaii Tours driver Julie Panui said she was wrapping up an eight-hour circle island tour at 3:10 p.m. with 23 passengers visiting from various countries and the mainland when she heard a shot and glass shattering on the right side of the bus.

“Anything that’s being shot out of a gun is going to hurt somebody, regardless if it’s a BB or a bullet or anything like that or throwing a rock at a vehicle,” she said. “Somebody’s going to get hurt.”

Panui continued: “For our visitors, it’s very traumatic to think they’re not wanted here. And our local people are getting hurt by these people who are shooting.

“They need to find the people who are doing this,” she said. “That needs to really, really stop. One day someone will get really hurt and then they’ll pay attention and then it’ll be too late. They really need to concentrate on doing that. It’s not good for our visitors and our local people.”

Police Capt. John McCarthy with the Criminal Investigation Division viewed an enlargement of the photo of the shattered window and said the hole produced by the projectile and the pattern of the breaking glass led him to believe it was from a BB gun and not a bullet or a rock.

The bus was traveling in the eastbound lanes of the H-1 freeway before the Radford pedestrian overpass when the incident occurred.

Panui said she looked into her rearview mirror and determined no cars were on the right, and quickly moved the bus safely onto the shoulder.

She found the Guatemalan woman in her 70s covered in glass, with shards of glass in her hair and all over her clothes.

The woman was clearly shaken but received only minor cuts on her legs from the broken glass and declined any treatment, and no one else was injured, Panui said, adding that the woman told her she would go back to the hotel and wash the glass out of her hair.

Because the right lanes were clear, Panui believes the shooter was taking aim from the bushes rather than from a vehicle.

Police searched the bushes for the shooter around 4 p.m. after taking everyone’s statements.

Two California men sitting directly behind the woman said they knew the sound of a shooting and told police they “heard the pop,” Panui said.

She said she gets questions about crime and tells visitors that drug-related theft is probably the most common crime, but that there is little violent crime in the islands. “Then boom, this happens,” she said.

Panui said this was the first time she had ever experienced such an incident in six years of doing tours and 18 years of driving the city bus.