Day-to-day activities at City College have returned to relatively normal since a student was shot and killed Sept. 3 by a suspect who, police say, is still at large.

Classes resumed Sept. 4 with little more than hushed whispers from both instructors and students, except for when hundreds of people gathered in the Quad to receive updated information on the shooting.

Many administrators were forced to cancel their day’s appointments in lieu of something more sinister — determining what could have been done to alert students of the shooting faster.

The Los Rios warning system is coming under fire from both students and faculty for not getting information about the shooting out in a timely manner, or for some, at all.

It was just before 4 p.m., when two students were shot, one of them fatally, after an argument broke out near the baseball field at East Road on the south side of campus. One other victim, who has yet to be identified, was taken to a nearby hospital with serious injuries from a stab wound.

It wasn’t until 4:40 p.m. when most students received a text message alert informing them that the school was on lockdown.

“It took a few minutes to actually get the original information from the incident up to our office,” said City College Public Information Officer Rick Brewer. “So we were just learning about it probably 10 or 15 minutes after it happened, so there was a little bit of a breakdown getting information from the site halfway across the campus.

“We had to err on the side of caution. We didn’t want to send out an alert that was incorrect and create panic or anything on the campus. We had to wait until we had confirmation. After that, it did take a few minutes to access the system that we have, but we did get it out as quickly as we could.”

According to Brewer, during that first 20 minutes, most of administration’s time was spent contacting Los Rios Police and making sure students were secured. Meanwhile, students in various classrooms were confused at everything going on.

“We didn’t get much information. We were just doing our lab and another student was brought into the lab, and the student was the one who told us something had happened, and they were locking it down because there was a shooter on campus,” said City College student Brandon Widener., “Maybe 20 minutes later, the dean popped in and told us to turn the lights off.”

Another student said she didn’t know anything until a student in her class called campus police to find out what was happening.

“We didn’t know anything,” said Alexia Jacobo-Bates, “I didn’t get a text until after we called.”

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Some students, like Kyrsten Fordham, voiced their concerns about not receiving an alert at all during the lockdown.

“At about 4:18, my sister and my mother texted me asking if I was okay. I was confused, and that’s when they told me there was a shooting on campus,” Fordham said. “Then I overheard some people in the library say that [the school] was on lockdown. We were on lockdown until they evacuated us at about 5:30.

“From what I hear, it took about 45 minutes for others to receive an alert, but I didn’t get one at all,” she added. “If it wasn’t for my family, I wouldn’t know anything was happening until they made an announcement in the library.

According to Brewer, the problem is that during registration, students choose not to allow alerts sent to their phone.

“There’s a place on there where you can put in your phone number, your cell phone number, your email address and even your home address and you can choose which way you want to be contacted,” said Brewer.

For some students, registering didn’t even matter. In certain classes, no phones are allowed or are not readily accessible, including science and performing arts.

City College President Kathryn Jeffery said this incident shed some light on where the district needs to make some adjustments.

“If you don’t have your phone with you to receive the message, than obviously you don’t get the notification,” said Jeffery. “So we’re trying to think of something else. We’re going to debrief and talk about other ways to reach the community, to expand our alert capacity. I do think there are some things to be learned from the incident. Things that can help inform us in the future, especially in the way of getting information out to people about what’s going on.

“But when an incident is happening in real time, the first thing we thought about was safety, to secure people in place. We deployed people around the campus to try to accomplish that. Trying to get people out to those locations was a bit of a challenge.”

Jeffery did point out that City College has a very safe campus, and that this shooting did seem to be an isolated incident. However, for many, there was no way for people on campus to know the nature or extent of the gunman.

For those students who did not receive an alert message over their phones, this video, created by the American River Current staff, shows the steps you take to register your phone number. Log on to our eServices account through scc.losrios.edu and proceed from there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIVHqSlPfuA&feature=youtu.be