FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) _ About 2,600 Killeen public school students who attend classes on Fort Hood remained on lockdown for more than five hours after Thursday’s mass shooting.
Most of the students, who were released when the base reopened, were attending the district’s seven elementary schools and two middle schools on the post. A high school adjacent to the base also was locked down.
District spokeswoman Leslie Gilmore says “the students were never in any danger and were well taken care of.”
She says that, as a security precaution, the students were released only to parents or guardians who could sign them out and weren’t being allowed to leave by other means.
Gilmore says the district will have crisis counselors available Friday.