Members of the Indiana State Teachers Association testified Wednesday before a state education committee that elementary school teachers had been shot “execution style” with pellet guns as part of an active shooter training conducted by the local sheriff’s office, according to
the Indianapolis Star.
According to an account from the association, “four teachers at a time were taken into a room, told to crouch down and were
shot execution style with some sort of projectiles” during the January training at Meadowlawn Elementary School in Monticello, Indiana.
Two of the elementary teachers told the Star that while they had voluntarily agreed to participate in the training, they had not been warned they would be shot. They said the pellets had left them with bruises and welts, and at least one teacher said a pellet left her bleeding.
According to their account, the officers told the teachers to kneel against the classroom wall before unloading a round of pellets from an airsoft gun without any warning. “
They told us, ‘This is what happens if you just cower and do nothing,’ ” one of the teachers told the Star. “They shot all of us across our backs. I was hit four times. … It hurt so bad.”