NIU marks 15 years since 2008 mass shooting: Survivors tell stories of lessons learned NIUlive
It's been 15 years since a lone gunman stepped into a Northern Illinois University lecture hall and fatally shot five students, wounded dozens of others and left a mark some say won't ever go away.
Stromberg was a senior at the time. He decided to pursue a master's degree in counseling after his experience surviving the mass shooting. He now lives in Schaumburg and works as clinical director at Counseling Works, specializing in trauma counseling. Radio towers and communication responses are more succinct, and training focuses on neutralizing a potential threat while balancing vital medical care to injured people.
"What's changed mostly, I think, is the community's expectations on police as it pertains to active shooter circumstances," Mitchell said."Back then, it was one of those phenomena that you think this is very, very tragic. Something that you want to be cognizant of, aware of and prepared to prevent if you can from happening in your community and obviously respond appropriately.
Training for active shooter response before 2008 taught Kness, also a former paramedic, that his first job was to neutralize threats, even if it meant passing victims along the way. With every deadly mass shooting -- including Henry Pratt Co. in Aurora on Feb. 15, 2019, in which five employees were killed; Virginia Tech; and Sandy Hook Elementary School --"each time we learn something, if not new, we firm up the knowledge and we continue to train better," Kness said.
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