Active Shooter Information

If Shots Heard on Campus

Call Campus Safety x0911 or 517/629-0911

Campus Safety will then immediately:

• Call STU's Department of Public Safety (ADPS)
• Send a message through the College Alert system via telephone, text, email, campus siren/PA system to the campus community
• Initiate building lock-down procedures

Once you have received the message, evaluate your surroundings for signs of danger: gunfire, smoke/flames, explosion, people fleeing.

If you ARE NOT in the vicinity of the shooter, DO NOT approach or attempt to enter that area. Go to a safe place, monitor a source of information, and remain there until you are notified it is safe to resume normal activity.

If you ARE in the vicinity of the shooter, you have three options: Run, Hide, or Fight

Run

• Have an escape route or plan in mind and leave your belongings behind
• Help others escape if possible, but most importantly get out whether they agree to go or not
• Do not attempt to move or assist the wounded
• Try to prevent others from entering the area where the shooter may be
• Get to a safe place and call Campus Safety

Hide

• Hide in an area outside the shooters view
• Lock the door or block the entrance to your hiding place
• Silence your cell phone (including vibrate) and remain quiet

Fight

• Fight only as last resort and when your life is in imminent danger
• Attempt to incapacitate the shooter and act with as much physical aggression as possible
• Improvise weapons or throw objects at the shooter, making sure you commit to your actions as your life depends on it

For more information please visit the link below to a video on surviving Active Shooter events.