Lee County deputies, students train in active shooter drills

Writer: Paul Dolan
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Active shooter drill at South Fort Myers High. (CREDIT: LCSO)

Kids and deputies at a school in Lee County were training to be prepared in the case of a deadly shooting on Tuesday.

An active shooter training involving real kids at South Fort Myers High. Deputies and school resource officers ran into schools past real screaming kids pretending to be shot.

Screaming students scattered across the school with guns going off in a classroom, is something students need to know how to effectively handle in 2022.

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Deputies preparing to go through the active school shooter drill. (CREDIT: LCSO)

“Unfortunately, you turn your TV on everywhere and you see, Texas you see these tragedies, and we have to be ready for anything that comes our way,” said Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno. “How you train is how you perform.”

While it is only a drill, it looks and feels very real, which is what the sheriff wants. “We’re gonna make certain they do today that training is kicking in,” Marceno said. “It’s going to be very intense.”

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