Update to this story:
LEO's were inside the building in under 5 minutes from when they were notified., according to the article. The information posted on
http://www.lctcs.edu/news.asp?articleID=330 placed the initial response time at 2 minutes.
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http://www.wtol.com/global/story.asp?s=7847298
BATON ROUGE, LA - (WAFB) Baton Rouge police say a young woman killed two female students in a classroom at a vo-tech college Friday, then killed herself. Police identified the victims as Karsheika Graves, age 21, and Tanieshia-Deanna Butler, age 26. Investigators identified the shooter as Latina Williams, age 23. Sergeant Don Kelly with Baton Rouge police says all three were students at the Louisiana Technical College campus. The shooter's family lives in Mississippi. Baton Rouge police visited with them Friday night, trying to figure out what might have led Latina Williams to open fire. Funeral arrangements for the victims are still pending.
Young people called their parents from the Louisiana Technical College Friday morning, pleading for them to call 911. The school is located on Airline Highway at Winbourne Avenue. The investigation continues into why anyone would shoot and kill innocent school mates. Here is what we do know:
At 8:36, phone calls started pouring into Baton Rouge police from students inside the classroom building where the shots were fired.
At 8:37, police were on their way to the campus to investigate the complaints.
By 8:40, officers were entering the building, not knowing if the shooting was over or if someone with a gun was still roaming the halls.
"This is a situation where you have to analyze everything that goes on. There was nobody virtually that could have stopped, I believe, what happened today, absent checking everybody as they came into the building. But besides that, it's a sad commentary when you have young people who are here to be educated at a great institution. And yet, they are gunned down and become innocent victims of violence at school. So to those families, to parents, to other people in the community, relatives of these individuals on both sides, this is a tragic day for Baton Rouge, it's a tragic day for the nation," Mayor Kip Holden says.