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The Uvalde, Texas, faculty district made detailed safety preparations and simulated an energetic shooter scenario with regulation enforcement officers earlier than a lethal elementary faculty mass taking pictures Tuesday, based on a report.

5 totally different companies took half in a simulation in August 2020 to apply how they might cease a lethal gunman, and town’s SWAT workforce was despatched to study the layouts of college buildings within the district within the case of such a risk, the New York Instances reported Thursday.

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The coaching train in 2020 included native officers assigned to the college district, Uvalde police, the county sheriff’s workplace, and different native regulation enforcement companies.

The Metropolis of Uvalde additionally acquired a grant of practically $70,000 from the state in a bid to beef up safety at colleges after a taking pictures at a highschool in Santa Fe left 10 individuals useless in 2018. A number of the preventive safety measures the college district says it carried out embrace movement detectors, perimeter fencing, a buzz-in door system, and extra, based on a two-page doc obtained by CNN.

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The disclosures have been made as outrage mounts over the query of what took regulation enforcement so lengthy to cease the gunman, who was within the faculty for as much as an hour and killed 21 individuals, together with 19 kids and two lecturers, in a single classroom. Greater than a dozen others have been injured.

Officers say the shooter, recognized as 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, entered the college via an apparently unlocked door. Witnesses on the scene have criticized regulation enforcement, who they mentioned waited practically an hour to breach the college as backup arrived. An investigation into the taking pictures is ongoing.