'The drills worked,' said the SLPS safety director. 'They did exactly what they were supposed to do. They barricaded those doors. They got away from those windows. They got out of that building.'
By Kim Bell and Daniel Neman St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Police said 19-year-old Orlando Harris barricaded himself inside a classroom Monday morning before he was shot and killed by police. Harris opened fire inside the school, killing a student and a teacher.
The leaders address gun violence in St. Louis, take personal responsibility and urge action during a vigil after the nationβs latest tragic school shooting.
The gunman who killed a student and teacher at a south St. Louis school Monday had about 600 rounds of ammunition and left behind handwritten notes about being a loner with no social life.
By Dana Rieck, Kim Bell and Daniel Neman St. Louis Post-Dispatch