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LUBBOCK, Texas — Following the tragic mass shooting in Boulder, CO earlier this week, and the others before that, Lubbock officers are reminding us of being prepared in the event that we find ourselves in an active shooter situation.

“We can’t just naturally be expected to know how to respond to a mass shooting, somebody does have to come and teach you about it,” said Lubbock Police Corporal Chris Paine. “What we like to promote is, is that you visit the mindset of awareness on occasion.”

Paine has traveled all across the country providing active shooter trainings that are designed to teach the average, unarmed citizen what they should do to protect themselves wherever they might encounter an active shooter.

“Odds are overwhelmingly in your favor already to survive a mass shooting incident,” said Paine. “But then when you add training, and preparation and specifics in planning, chances, chances for us to be overwhelmingly successful, they increase a hundredfold.”

He said that avoiding, denying and defending are key components of staying safe. Avoid means finding an exit plan – look at your surroundings and keep in mind an escape route when you’re in a new place.

“Avoiding, obviously, you would want to be away from the trouble from any physical harm, but it’s more than just getting away it’s identifying avenues of escape it’s taking micro-actions,” he explained.

Read the full article on everythinglubbock.com, published on March 25, 2021.

LUBBOCK, Texas — It was a petrifying morning for Brynn Stewart – who escaped an attempted kidnapping at 9 o’clock this morning right down the street from Rush Elementary School.

“I was just in doubt, like, you always see them on Facebook, but you never think it’s actually gonna happen to you,” said Stewart.

Stewart was walking on 17th and Salem when she felt like a man wearing a hat and a mask was following her. She crossed the street to get out of his way, but then followed her.

“You don’t ever know how you’re actually going to react in one of those situations until you’re in that situation,” said Stewart.

It wasn’t long after that he quickly approached her and said ‘Are you scared?’ before grabbing her from behind. Stewart kicked and screamed to get away from him — and luckily she did. 

She saw a Ring doorbell on a nearby home and ran there to make sure the situation was caught on camera. 

Read the full article published on everythinglubbock.com on March 16, 2021.

LUBBOCK, Texas — More local pharmacies have received doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine this week. 

“We’re just so happy to get people vaccinated and hopefully get out of the pandemic and just have a lot less deaths and hospitalizations from this disease,” said Chris Hobart, Pharmacist in Charge at Twin Oaks Pharmacy.

Twin Oaks, Highland and Slaton Pharmacies each received 100 doses, and they were hopeful about what that means for the future of this pandemic.

“It felt like a sense of relief,” said Benjamin Xie, a pharmacist at Highland Pharmacy. “It’s something that we’ve been waiting, and everyone has been working very diligently on.”

Pharmacists said a lot of folks were interested in getting the Johnson & Johnson vaccine because it only required one dose.

“There was actually a lot of people that were waiting for the Johnson & Johnson,” said Hobart. “That’s about half the people we’ve done so far, that were waiting specifically for the one shot that may have had some issues with vaccines in the past or things like that and wanted to do this shot instead.”

Read the full article on everythinglubbock.com, published March 11, 2021.