LONDONDERRY — "He's got a gun," shouted a student who ran into the hallway at Londonderry High School.
Shots were fired and the smell of gunpowder wafted from the space where the student had just fled.
Under the direction of Lt. Christopher Gandia, the school district's three resource officers — Officers Adam Lane, Brad Warriner and Shannon Coyle — took turns responding to three different scenarios involving a shooting at a school. About a dozen students from the school's Drama Club volunteered to participate.
The eight-hour training began at the police station in the morning and then the officers and Gandia conducted hands-on training in the high school after the students were released for early dismissal.
"We have training for our officers like this every year, but this was the first one specifically for the school resource officers," Gandia said.
"If there was an actual event at a school, these officers would be the first ones on the scene and would probably be by themselves for about five minutes before other officers showed up.
They were taught how to contain the area or stop the threat."
Gandia said the training went well.
"The officers performed excellently," he said.
