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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where was McCarthy and McKnight before a student was rushed to the hospital in critical condition?

Schools are a hot mess right now and these two turkeys need their time in the spotlight. More needs to be done to address safety problems in schools. I’m sure that the COVID staffing shortages is a contributing factor.[/quote]

They should have gone to the hospital.[/quote]

Not in times of Covid, no. However, McKnight should have arrived on time for her presser, and given a much better speech than she did, and the school+LE should have done a much better job of identifying the wound, figuring out there was a shooter on the loose and catching him.

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I think law enforcement’s original reaction was based on the information (or the downplayed information) that Magruder staff provided. Someone needs to investigate who made the 911 call and exactly what was conveyed.

Typically, the school security person that found the kid probably called the main office. An office staff member sent the nurse to the bathroom and called in the 911 call. The school security person and the school nurse were focused on the student and waiting for EMTs to get there. An abdominal shooting victim can loose a lot of blood internally very quickly.

Based on dispatches initial directions, this was initially treated as a routine, no lights and no sirens call. That all changed when non-MCPS people (EMTs and police) got on sight and saw it was a gunshot victim. Lessons from MCPS to dispatch to fire and rescue to the police need to be learned from this. I do think having a trained police officer (SRO) at the school would have made the notification that the student had a gunshot wound and an active shooter was on campus become crystal clear in the call for backup.

Does MCPS and agencies have drills for these types of scenarios? In hospitals, you have codes - ex. Code Blue or Stat - that signal the urgency of help needed. Simple words that triggers an immediate response. It seems like there should be some type of signal from the security guard to the front office that would relay the message to 911 immediate and urgent help was needed. [/quote]

Soooo if he had been stabbed and bleeding from the abdomen it would have been routine?[/quote]

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