Transcript Active Shooter Incidents - Ohio Northern University

Active Shooter
Incidents
The community response
Campus Incidents
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14 incidents: 65 dead, 46 wounded
Compiled by The Associated Press
Feb. 14, 2008: A former graduate student at Northern Illinois University in Dekalb opens fire in a lecture
hall, killing five students and wounding 15 others. He then commits suicide.
Feb. 8, 2008: Latina Williams, 23, opens fire during an emergency medical technology class at Louisiana
Technical College in Baton Rouge, killing Karsheika Graves and Taneshia Butler. She then kills herself.
Dec. 13, 2007: Two Ph.D. students from India are found shot to death in a home invasion at an apartment
on the campus of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
Oct. 1, 2007: University of Memphis football player Taylor Bradford, 21, who had been rumored to have
won more than $3,000 at a casino, is fatally shot on campus in a botched robbery. Four men are later
charged in the slaying, including one student.
Sept. 21, 2007: Two students are wounded at a late-night shooting at a campus dining hall at Delaware
State University in Dover. Shalita K. Middleton, 17, dies Oct. 23 from her injuries. A student is charged in
the shooting.
April 16, 2007: Cho Seung-Hui, 23, fatally shoots 32 people in a dorm and a classroom at Virginia Tech in
Blacksburg, injures at least 25, then kills himself in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
April 2, 2007: A 26-year-old researcher at the University of Washington in Seattle is shot to death in her
office by her ex-boyfriend. Jonathan Rowan, 41, then kills himself.
Incidents Continued
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Sept. 2, 2006: Douglas W. Pennington, 49, kills himself and his two sons, Logan P. Pennington, 26, and
Benjamin M. Pennington, 24, during a visit to the campus of Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, W.Va.
May 9, 2003: A 62-year-old man with two handguns and a bulletproof vest fires hundreds of rounds during
a seven-hour shooting spree and standoff at a Case Western Reserve University building in Cleveland. One
student is killed and two others are wounded. Biswanath Halder, who authorities say was upset because
he believed a student hacked into his Web site, is later sentenced to life in prison.
Oct. 28, 2002: Failing student and Gulf War veteran Robert Flores, 40, walks into an instructor's office at
the University of Arizona Nursing College in Tucson and fatally shoots her. A few minutes later, armed with
five guns, he enters one of his nursing classrooms and kills two more of his instructors before fatally
shooting himself.
Jan. 16, 2002: Graduate student Peter Odighizuwa, 42, recently dismissed from Virginia's Appalachian
School of Law in Grundy, returns to campus and kills the dean, a professor and a student before being
tackled by students. The attack also wounds three female students. Odighizuwa is serving six life
sentences after pleading guilty.
May 17, 2001: Donald Cowan, 55, fatally shoots assistant music professor James Holloway at a dorm at
Pacific Lutheran University in Parkland, Wash., then turns the gun on himself. He leaves a 16-page suicide
note expressing anger at a colleague of Holloway's whom he dated briefly as a teenager.
Aug. 28, 2000: James Easton Kelly, 36, a University of Arkansas graduate student recently dropped from a
doctoral program after a decade of study and John Locke, 67, the English professor overseeing his
coursework, are shot to death in an apparent murder-suicide by Kelly.
June 28, 2000: Medical resident Dr. Jian Chen kills his supervisor and then himself in his supervisor's office
at the University of Washington in Seattle. Faculty say Chen, 42, was upset he'd be forced to return to
China because of his academic shortcomings.
Training Objectives
• Define the term “active shooter”
• List measures that can be employed to
reduce the effectiveness of an active
shooter
• Describe actions that can be expected
from responding law enforcement
officers
The Active Shooter defined
• A suspect or assailant whose activity is
immediately causing death and serious
Injury
• Threat is not contained and there is
immediate risk of death and injury
Active Shooter
• Considered the greatest terrorist threat
on campuses
• Nationally accepted law enforcement
response plans
• You need to be informed of law
enforcement’s response plan so you can
take protective measures
Mentality of Active Shooter
• Desire is to kill and seriously injure without
concern for his safety or threat of capture
• Normally has intended victims and will
search them out
• Accepts targets of opportunity while
searching for or after finding intended
victims
• Will continue to move throughout
building/area until stopped by law
enforcement, suicide, or other intervention
Active Shooter’s
Intent is to Kill and Injure
• This necessitated a change in tactics by
law enforcement
• Losses can be mitigated with
community preparedness training and
response during actual event
History
Lessons learned from
Columbine and
Virginia Tech.
Dylan Klebold
Seung-Hui Cho
Eric Harris
Public Schools vs. ONU
• Unlike the public school system ONU facilities
do not feature:
• Intercoms in classrooms
• Immediate campus-wide emergency notification
system to initiate Campus Lockdown Procedures
• One centralized administrative office
• Visitor access points
• Similar monitoring and control of students and
other people on campus
ONU
• Features:
• Full time trained Security force
(unarmed)
• Multiple means for reporting
emergencies and alerting the
community to an emergency
• Solidly constructed facilities
• Places of refuge
• Multiple escape routes
Your Response
• Your actions will influence others
• Stay Calm
• Assure others that you and the police
are working to protect them
Your Response
• Secure the immediate area – whether
classroom, bathroom, or office.
• Lock the door. This may require advanced
planning to ensure ability to lock the door – key
and type of lock.
• Most doors in university buildings are solid core,
and many walls are block and brick. This may
provide some protection
• Block the door using whatever is available - desks,
file cabinets, books, other furniture…
• If the shooter enters your room and leaves,
lock/barricade the door behind him
• If safe allow others to seek refuge with you
Your Response
• Treat the injured
• Remember basic first aid
• For bleeding apply pressure and elevate
• Be creative in identifying items to use
for this purpose - clothing, paper towels,
feminine hygiene products, news
papers, etc.
Your Response
• Un-securing an area…..
• The shooter will not stop until his objectives have
been met, unless engaged by law enforcement
• Consider the risk exposure created by opening the
door
• Attempts to rescue people should only be made if that
can be done without further endangering the persons
inside a secured area
• The shooter may bang on the door and yell for help to
entice you to open the door
• Remember the safety of the masses versus the safety
of a few
• If there is any doubt to the safety of the individuals
inside the room, the area needs to remain secured
Your Response
• Doors, Windows, Openings, and Noise
• Close blinds
• Block windows
• Turn off radios and computer monitors if necessary
• Silence cell phones
• Signs can be placed in interior doors, windows, but
remember the shooter can see these
• Place signs in exterior windows to identify the location of
injured persons
• Keep occupants calm and quiet
• After securing the room. People should be positioned out
of sight and behind items that might offer additional
protection - walls, desks, file cabinets, etc.
Contacting Emergency Personnel
• Emergency 911
• 911 may be overwhelmed
• busy signal
• multiple rings
• 419-634-0010 Ada Police
• 419-673-1268 Hardin County Sheriff
What to Report
• Your specific location
• Building name
• Office/classroom number
• Number of people at your specific location
• Injuries
• Number of people injured
• Types of injuries
• Dispatcher may provide instructions on how to
care for injured until medical assistance can be
provided
What to Report
• Assailant(s)
• Specific location
• Number of assailant(s)
• Race and Gender
• Clothing color and style
• Physical features – height, weight, facial hair,
glasses
• Type of weapons (rifle/shotgun, handgun)
• Backpack
• Do you recognize the shooter? What’s his name?
• Have you heard explosions separate from
gunshots?
Unsecured areas
• If you find yourself in an open area,
immediately seek protection
• Put something between you and the
shooter
• Is escape your best option? Do you
know where the shooter is? Is escape
immediately available?
• If in doubt find a safe area and secure it
the best way you can
Law Enforcement Response
• Law enforcement will immediately respond to the
area
• It is important for you to convey to others that help is
on the way. Remain inside the secure area.
• Law enforcement’s goal is to locate, contain, and stop
the shooter
• The safest place for you to be is inside a secure room
• The shooter will not flee when law enforcement enters
the building, instead he will have new targets to shoot
• Remember the shooter’s mindset is not escape. His
goal is to kill and injure
Law Enforcement Response
• Injured persons
• Initial responding officers will not treat the injured or begin
evacuation until the threat is neutralized
• You may need to explain this to others in an attempt to calm
them
• Once the shooter is contained, officers will begin treatment
and evacuation
• Evacuation
• Safety corridors will be established. This may be time
consuming
• Remain in secure areas until instructed otherwise
• You may be instructed to keep your hands on your head
• You may be searched
• You will be escorted out of the building by law enforcement
personnel
The Investigation
• Information will be released to ONU
community and media as quickly as possible
• The entire area will be treated as a crime
scene
• Once you have been evacuated you will not be
permitted to retrieve items or access the crime
scene
• After evacuation you will be taken to a
holding area for medical care, interviewing,
counseling, etc.
Summary
Active Shooter
• You should take a leadership role
• Seek secure area
• Calm, reassure, and quiet others
• Report the incident
• Treat injured
• Law enforcement response
• Objective is to neutralize threat
• Evacuation
• Follow up medical care, interview, counseling
• Investigation
Closing Statement
• Historical perspectives of shooters on campuses:
• Spill-over crime – suspect flees onto campus from incident
in the community. Ex. bank robbery or a shooting.
• Workplace violence
• Disgruntled employee or estranged husband/boyfriend
• Middle aged Caucasian man
• Poor social skills
• Recent personnel Action
• Gun collector, hunter
• Early School Shootings
• Student
• Misfit
• Difficulty coping with losses & failures
• Bullied or teased
• Vendetta
Closing Statement
• We can no longer predict the origin of
the next threat
• Assailants in some recent incidents
across the country were not students or
employees
• There were no obvious specific targets
and the victims were unaware they
were targets, until attacked