Students, Professors Shelter in Glass Box
Trapped inside the glass entryway to the Stemmons Plaza entrance of Tucker Hall, two professors and two students hunkered down as they awaited updates from the university’s emergency alert system in the late afternoon of Wednesday, November 1, 2023.
Would W&L have protected students had the threat been real?
70% of mass shootings end within 5 minutes. Yet 19 minutes passed before law enforcement arrived at Washington and Lee University on Wednesday, November 1 in response to a violent threat. Had the threat been carried out during that lengthy interval, how much harm could an attacker have inflicted?