Michigan State students’ training kicked in during shooting

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER
Associated Press

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — When the texts began coming in about a shooter at Michigan State University, training that many students started receiving as schoolchildren automatically kicked in. They ran. They found a place to hide. They locked and barricaded the doors. Then they waited as a gunman who killed three students and wounded five more eluded police for four hours. They are part of a generation that has grown up with active shooter drills. Schools and districts across the U.S. began implementing the training after a shooting at at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, that killed 20 children and six educators.