CHICAGO — College security grew to become a renewed concern for folks, college students and workers after the Uvalde taking pictures in Texas in Could. At Wendell Phillips Academy, find in Bronzeville, a gunman opened fireplace simply as college was being let loose final fall.

The taking pictures occurred on October 12, 2021 as a safety guard opened up the east door, a younger man with a gun opened fireplace. 

The 45-year-old safety guard and a 14-year-old scholar have been each shot and critically injured.

On the Weekly Chicago police briefing Monday, Chicago Police stated that it staged its personal lively shooter drill final week with officers at Julian Excessive College on the Far South Facet to make sure that its security of faculty within the occasion of a taking pictures. 

“Speaking with the opposite businesses like the hearth division in paramedics in the event that they have been to occur,” Chief Ernest Cato of CPD Bureau stated. “And since we’re higher ready, we are able to reply higher and be higher ready.”