Active Shooter

The following guidelines are intended to reduce your personal risk in the unlikely event that an Active Shooter incident should occur on campus.

How to Respond 

• RUN if you can see a safe way out

• HIDE if there's no clear way out

• FIGHT if your only option is to defend yourself

Run

• Have an escape route and plan in mind

• Evacuate regardless of whether others agree to follow

• Leave your belongings behind (take your cell phone)

• Help others escape, if possible  

Hide

• Lock the door

• Blockade the door with heavy furniture

• Silence your cellphone

• Turn off any source of noise (i.e., radios, TV)

• Spread out and hide behind large items (i.e., cabinets, desks)

• Develop a plan of action should the active killer enter

• Remain quiet

Fight

As a last resort, and only when your life is in imminent danger, attempt to disrupt and/or incapacitate the active shooter by:

• Acting as aggressively as possible against him/her

• Throwing items and improvising weapons

• Yelling

• Committing to your actions