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Ramsey County, Minnesota law enforcement officers next to a simulated casualty during an active shooter response exercise at the Arden Hills Army Training Site. Active shooter training (sometimes termed active shooter response training or active shooter preparation) addresses the threat of an active shooter by providing awareness, preparation, prevention, and response methods.
3 [a] On Thursday, November 14, 2019, at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, California, United States, a school shooting occurred when a student with a pistol, identified as 16-year-old Nathaniel Berhow, shot five schoolmates, killing two, before killing himself. [2][3]
v. t. e. The Columbine High School massacre, often simply referred to as Columbine, was a school shooting and a failed bombing that occurred on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado, United States. [ b ] The perpetrators, twelfth-grade students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, murdered twelve students and one teacher.
Immediate action rapid deployment (IARD) or rapid deployment, is a police tactic where first responders, typically regular policemen, actively confront a developing high-risk crisis. This is opposed to first responders acting to assemble a cordon around the crisis zone [1] and then waiting for specialized special response units to spearhead a ...
The shooting occurred during the last day of classes for the spring semester, [5] [8] at around 5:40 p.m. local time, according to university officials. [1] Around that time, the gunman entered Room 236 in the Kennedy Building, where approximately 60 students enrolled in "Science, Technology, & Society," a liberal studies course on the anthropology and philosophy of science, were delivering ...
An active shooter is the perpetrator of an ongoing mass shooting. The term is primarily used to characterize shooters who are targeting victims indiscriminately and at a large scale, who oftentimes, will either commit suicide or intend to be killed by police. More generally, an active perpetrator of a mass murder may be referred to as an active ...
Tactical EMS providers are paramedics, nurses, and physicians who are trained to provide life-saving care and, sometimes, transport in situations such as tactical police operations, active shooters, bombings, and natural disasters. [1] Tactical medical providers (TMPs) provide care in high risk situations where there is an increased likelihood ...
On November 30, 2021, a mass shooting occurred at Oxford High School in the Detroit exurb of Oxford Township, Michigan, United States. Ethan Robert Crumbley, age 15, armed with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun, killed four students and injured seven people, including a teacher. Authorities arrested and charged Crumbley as an adult for 24 crimes ...