DENTON (WBAP/KLIF) – The University of North Texas is actively working to educate students on the potential for an active shooter situation and how to react.
The University hosted a class to teach students the best ways to react if caught up in a mass shooting. Officials advised first, trying to get out of the area. Second, hiding if if you can’t escape. Third, only if your life is in immediate danger, try to disrupt or incapacitate the shooter.
Dean of Students, Moe McGuinness told the class that the University’s CARE Team program works to prevent tragedies by reaching out to troubled students.
“Know that there are a lot of different things out there,” said McGuiness. “We go to the root of the stress to see what we can do. And that’s important.”
The CARE Team program is working to stay ahead of the problem before tragedy strikes.
“We’ve trained our faculty and staff, and now we’re telling our students that if you get people who are telling you these kinds of things to our office,” McGuinness said.
The class was held in the wake of the massacre in Las Vegas that left 58 people dead.
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