Public Safety

Active Shooter Situation

What is an Active Shooter situation?

An active shooter is an individual or individuals actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a confined and populated area. Active shooter situations are unpredictable and evolve quickly. Please see the video and resources below to have a better understanding of how to respond. (DHS Definition)

Run, Hide and Fight are three tactics you can use to keep yourself and other safe during an active shooter incident. These three tactics will prepare and empower you to put them into practice should the unthinkable happen. (FBI website)

Run, Hide, Fight

RUN

Evacuate if there is an accessible escape path

Have an escape route in mind
Leave belongings behind
Help others escape, if possible, but evacuate if they don’t agree to follow
Keep hands visible
Call 911 when safe

HIDE

If you are unable to evacuate, find a place where the active shooter is less likely to find you

Lock the door
Barricade the door with heavy furniture
Silence your cell phone
Remain quiet

FIGHT

As a last resort, and only when your life is in imminent danger

Act as aggressively as possible
Use items as weapons to throw at active shooter
Yell
Committing to your actions
Work together with others against the active shooter

How to act when Law Enforcement arrives

Immediately raise hands and spread fingers (put down any items in hands)
Keep hands visible at all times
Remain calm and follow officers directions
Do not stop to ask officers for help or directions when evacuating, just proceed in the direction from which officers are entering the premises

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Star Alert is St. Cloud State University’s emergency notification system. Please ensure you are signed up, and keep your phone number and email updated. Students are automatically enrolled by email and the phone number on file with the university. Faculty and staff have to opt in to receive messages via cell phone. Faculty and staff email address are automatically added.

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