Summary
Until the Columbine massacre, police patrol officers typically "contained" an active shooting scene with handguns until tactical teams mustered and move in. It happened during Marc Lepine's random slaughter of 14 young women at the Universite de Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique in 1989. It took police 20 minutes to enter the school. They learned dearly that the conventional response of contain, hold and call in the tactical and negotiation experts doesn't work.
"He was firing at anybody near the entrance, people gather there to smoke. I wouldn't have survived if I hadn't been standing next to a friend of mine who was thinking on her feet. My first reaction is, it can't be, it's got to be a paintball gun, right? I didn't have the right reaction. She was thinking on her feet, she saved my life," by telling him to run."He looked like he didn't care. He didn't say anything. He didn't have any facial expression, it was just cold stone, like a cold-blooded killer, he didn't care what he was doing.See the full content of this document
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No Time Wasted On Talk
Immediate police counter-attack put quick end to shooter's rampage
By Ian MacLeodMONTREAL -- It took police just four minutes to "neutralize" the Dawson College gunman with a new ta...See the full content of this document
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