Shoot House
Overview
In this scenario, the trainee is responding to an active shooter event. The trainee has already made an initial entry into the building and is preparing to move through a doorway. As the door opens to a hallway a female victim who is wounded pleads for help. The location of the active shooter (AS) is still unknown and there is still an active threat. Branching options for the training officer will allow the trainee to articulate their commands to the armed subject while maintaining situational awareness in an unknown hostile threat environment.
Branch Options
The training officer will select one branching scenario.
Intro: The intro begins with the trainee in an adjoining hallway of the building after making an initial entry. Gunshots and screaming can be heard nearby as an alarm sounds. The door swings open revealing a long hallway with multiple doors and a wounded female laying on the ground.
Hallway Movement: As the trainee moves past the doorway a second female runs from a classroom stating “please help, there is a shooter” while clutching her wounded arm.
Room Clearing: As the trainee begins conducting a threshold evaluation a shooter can be observed firing a handgun at a second victim in the classroom. The shooter then turns toward the trainee and begins firing his pistol.
Fire at User Loop: The active shooter will continue firing at the trainee until he is neutralized, or the scenario is ended by the training officer.
Force Options
Firearm
Verbal Commands
Training Objectives
This scenario will engage the officer’s situational awareness, proper use of force, tactics, and proper use of cover. The trainee must recognize the ongoing threat and the need to neutralize the shooter. When beginning the scenario, the trainee will be presented with a woman who appears to be wounded and the sound of gunfire nearby. The trainee should recognize that there is an active threat that must be neutralized prior to treating victims.
Hallway Movement:
Recognize that there is an active threat and a victim with gunshot wounds on the ground.
Scan the hallway for possible threats and observe a victim exiting from a nearby classroom.
The trainee should approach the doorway with caution and begin their threshold evaluation.
Weapon Presented:
Trainee observes the shooter discharge his firearm at another victim in the classroom.
Trainee uses appropriate use of force response from an active threat when presented with an immediate deadly force encounter.
Trainee should move ta position of cover and neutralize the threat.
Trainee should then continue their threat evaluation and clear the room for other possible shooters.
Trainee should provide a status update and begin providing treatment to the victims.
Initial Dispatch
The trainee is dispatched to an active shooter event. The trainee has already made entry to the building and is currently in a hallway. The location of the AS is unknown.
Review Mode Notes
The trainer TO will be able to discuss the importance of training for active shooter events.
TO should discuss the importance of constantly scanning and knowing where possible cover is in case of a lethal force encounter.
TO should discuss threshold evaluation and threat awareness.
TO should discuss follow-on steps once the threat has been neutralized.
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