Riley Howell, without the option of running or hiding, confronted the suspected gunman at UNC Charlotte, and was killed. The police chief said he saved others.
who"did exactly what we train people to do" and that he"took the assailant off his feet."
Even if the door opens out, stacking furniture can create impediments to a shooter."Even if they get the door open, now they’ve got all these obstacles," Burba said. Eventually, a police officer entered the library and told students inside to leave"and we all grabbed our stuff and ran out," she said. The company produced the video"Shots Fired, When Lightning Strikes" in 2007 after the Virginia Tech shooting which uses the terms “get out, hide out, take out.” That video was used as a reference by the DHS in the active shooter guidance it published in 2008.
People also need to learn the"red flags" that can offer clues that someone could become violent against others or themselves, Spivey said. Students pray together during a vigil at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte in Charlotte, N.C., on May 1, 2019.Ken Trump, president of National School Safety and Security Services, which deals with school security and training for pre-K-12 schools only, says that anecdotally there has been an increase in some of those districts adopting"run, hide, fight" or other options-based training, but"the vast majority in our experience are still not doing that.
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