An active shooter incident in September tested the effectiveness of the drills, tabletop exercises, partnerships, student and staff emergency training, and technology upgrades implemented by this large Texas university.
Parent association and daily police department E-mail kept parents of UT Austin students up-to-date about the Sept. 28 active shooter incident.
On the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 28, 19-year-old sophomore Colton Tooley shot himself to death with an AK-47 on the sixth floor of the University of Texas at Austin’s (UT Austin) Perry Castaneda Library (PCL). Here is the timeline of events before, during and after the shooting (most times are approximate):
This California school has engaged a full time police department on campus and deployed a new video surveillance system as strategic elements of its crime prevention policy and to ensure the general welfare of staff and students.