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Body Footage Is Released From Shooting

The shooter has been identified as 28-year-old Audrey Hale, who was a former student of the school. Hale legally bought seven firearms from different stores, three of which she then used in the attack. Hale entered the school by shooting a glass door and crawling through it. The police received a call at 10:13 am local time, reporting an active shooter was at the school.

Body camera footage was released Tuesday from Officer Rex Engelbert, who was first seen grabbing a weapon from his vehicle. He then approached a woman in the building who seemed to be a staff member. She tells him that most of the kids were safe, but two of them were nowhere to be found. After Englebert and the other officers check the first two floors of the school, they encounter the shooter standing near a window. Engelbert fires four times, and the shooter falls to the ground.

Additional body footage from Officer Michael Collazo was also revealed. Collazo is also seen on the first floor with the other officers. Once they reached the atrium, Collazo was behind Englebert and proceeded to shoot Hale four times. Hale was killed at 10:27 am local time, 14 minutes after the initial call to the police.

The Victims

Three adults and three children were killed during the shooting. The children were identified as Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney, who were all nine years old. The school’s janitor Mike Hill (61), substitute teacher Cynthia Peak (61), and Katherine Koonce, the head of the school, were the victims of the shooting. Koonce was 60 years old.

To date, there have been 130 mass school shootings in the US this year alone.

The recent tragic shooting at Robb Elementary School has devastated the nation, and Netflix isn’t ignoring it.

Netflix exercising empathy

Fans of the hit Netflix show Stranger Things can expect a message card preceding episode one of this new season. “We filmed this season of ‘Stranger Things’ a year ago. But given the recent tragic shooting at a school in Texas, viewers may find the opening scene of episode 1 distressing,” the warning reads. “We are deeply saddened by this unspeakable violence, and our hearts go out to every family mourning a loved one.”

In addition to the advisory warning, Netflix also provided notes including: “Warning: Contains graphic violence involving children” and “disturbing images.” This is presumably due to the violence against children that was displayed during the horrific Texas shooting this week. The forewarned scene contains no explosives or gunfire, however, it’s safe to say that Netflix clearly wanted to cover their bases in a sensitive time like this.

An all too common crime

Season four of Stranger Things just premiered this past week (May 27). The audience returns to Eleven, Mike, Will, Dustin, and, Lucas as they continue to fight the supernatural. The scene that garnered the warning featured Eleven, played by Millie Bobby Brown, as well as many other children soaked in blood. Clearly, this imagery is extremely hard to swallow in a social climate like this. Particularly for a show like Stranger Things that focuses so heavily on kids, it was a priority for Netflix to make its stance known.

On Mar 24, an 18-year-old gunman entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. This criminal took the lives of nineteen students and two adults. There are many issues impacting the country but firstly, this community has been rocked and more than ever need support. Be sure to keep the loved ones of those lost in mind.

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