Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would a shooter shoot one specific child at a high school and then go on a mass shooting spree at a junior high?

It sounds like you're suggesting they should have put all nearby schools on lockdown. I don't think that sounds reasonable under the circumstances.

That's exactly what should happen when a gunman is at large. And that's the process that the school system says will happen in these situation. Not just for shootings that happened at a nearby school, but for any shooting in the vicinity of a school. It's not that it's assumed they're going to target another school, but it's assumed police officers will be searching and the gunman will be hiding/ running. They want to make sure they can't run to a school and use kids to confuse the pursuit or to prevent any small chance a kid could be in a crossfire that could happen in a pursuit. Those are not likely outcomes, but it is a precaution that school's take.

How wide of an area? For how long?

And you seem to want to do this any time the police are looking for someone with a gun?

That really doesn't sound like a reasonable reaction.

Julius West is extremely close to Wootton. So close that they caught the shooter right in front of it! That proves the point that they should have locked down. Moreover, kids at Julius west live in the neighborhood right behind Wootton.

Anonymous wrote:Why would a shooter shoot one specific child at a high school and then go on a mass shooting spree at a junior high?

It sounds like you're suggesting they should have put all nearby schools on lockdown. I don't think that sounds reasonable under the circumstances.

That’s exactly the policy when a shooting occurs and the shooter flees. It’s the policy if it happens nearby and not in a school.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would a shooter shoot one specific child at a high school and then go on a mass shooting spree at a junior high?

It sounds like you're suggesting they should have put all nearby schools on lockdown. I don't think that sounds reasonable under the circumstances.

That's exactly what should happen when a gunman is at large. And that's the process that the school system says will happen in these situation. Not just for shootings that happened at a nearby school, but for any shooting in the vicinity of a school. It's not that it's assumed they're going to target another school, but it's assumed police officers will be searching and the gunman will be hiding/ running. They want to make sure they can't run to a school and use kids to confuse the pursuit or to prevent any small chance a kid could be in a crossfire that could happen in a pursuit. Those are not likely outcomes, but it is a precaution that school's take.

How wide of an area? For how long?

And you seem to want to do this any time the police are looking for someone with a gun?

That really doesn't sound like a reasonable reaction.

Since Julius West is so close to Wootton it should have been locked down immediately.

This is a MCPS fail not normally something I say.

I do think MCPS is a great school system even with all the whining on this forum or Next Door.

Anonymous wrote:Why would a shooter shoot one specific child at a high school and then go on a mass shooting spree at a junior high?

It sounds like you're suggesting they should have put all nearby schools on lockdown. I don't think that sounds reasonable under the circumstances.

That's exactly what should happen when a gunman is at large. And that's the process that the school system says will happen in these situation. Not just for shootings that happened at a nearby school, but for any shooting in the vicinity of a school. It's not that it's assumed they're going to target another school, but it's assumed police officers will be searching and the gunman will be hiding/ running. They want to make sure they can't run to a school and use kids to confuse the pursuit or to prevent any small chance a kid could be in a crossfire that could happen in a pursuit. Those are not likely outcomes, but it is a precaution that school's take.

Given that you can leave a school and drive very rapidly to other schools, it's going to take a much more competent human+tech alert system to protect all MoCo schools, both public and private.

No, it's not out of the way to think that one day a mass shooter could kill people at one school, then go on to kill others at another school. Ever since we had a crazed person gun down 5 and 6 year olds in cold blood, anything can happen.

So we need a region-wide alert system that goes out to ALL schools, public and private, and that any Principal or authorized person can trigger at at the push of a button, or a simple code on their phone, perhaps (they will need to rehearse this multiple times).

Why would a shooter shoot one specific child at a high school and then go on a mass shooting spree at a junior high?

It sounds like you're suggesting they should have put all nearby schools on lockdown. I don't think that sounds reasonable under the circumstances.

Anonymous wrote:If the kids had already been dismissed, it would be really hard to call them back and go into lockdown.

Shooting happened at 2:15. Dismal was around 3

If the kids had already been dismissed, it would be really hard to call them back and go into lockdown.

That’s nuts.

Julius west wasn’t even aware!

Statistically mass shooting are more likely to happen during transition times like dismissals and in common areas. MCPS and MCPD should be trained on how to handle an active assailant leaving school grounds. In this case, it sounds like they didn’t follow those protocols.

OP, you might get a word salad response from those at mcps who read these threads.

Could the timing of it have to do with not lockdown? Tho not sure what the time was between that student leaving Wootton and family getting pulled over (if that's what happened). It was reported the incident at Wootton was at 2:15pm.

Hind sight is 20;20

The Wootton shooter was caught and arrested and his family detained right in front of Julius West Middle School.

Julius West had never locked down. It was dismissal time! Walkers witnessed the arrest, police officers pointing guns at the ready, the shooter’s family handcuffed and detained at their car where it was pulled over. Students from the middle school took video of the event.

How did Julius West never lock down? How did they allow middle schoolers to walk and buses to drive past the scene in action?