#Run hide fight how to#

I don't understand why anyone would want to walk through the door and want to hurt you guys, but there are bad people out there. You are the most important thing in the world - kids. 'This is so important,' Huval told his audience. Teaching with purpose: Woman finds purpose in teaching life skills, sexual health to change teens' livesįrom now through mid-July, kids are getting active with University of Louisiana at Lafayette athletes and learning about safety, healthy habits, social issues and more with help from special guests like Huval. Huval was invited to speak to the group of Lafayette children as part of a summer leadership academy put on through a partnership between the city's Parks, Arts and Recreation Department and SMILE Community Action Agency. 'I would hate for that day to come and them not be prepared,' Huval said, telling the students, 'This is hard to think about but good to have in your mind.' The K-12 School Shooting Database from the Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Homeland Defense and Security lists 2,012 school shootings in the U.S. Lessons like these are 'unfortunate, but necessary because of the current times we live in,' Huval said, referring to school shootings like one in Uvalde, Texas, in May that killed 19 students and two teachers.

#Run hide fight how to#

Dwight Huval talk with kids at Heymann Recreation Center about how to respond to an active shooter and plays a game of hide and seek. These are conversations they've had at home. In her spare time, she goes hunting with her ex-special forces father and. Huval, also a resource officer at Ovey Comeaux High School, said he tries to teach students about active shooter situations the way he would his own kids, ages 10 and 8. Zoe Hull is facing high school graduation while still reeling from her mothers death. Montgomery Elementary during lockdown drills, he said. It's something the fourth-grader has practiced at school, too, hiding under desks in his classroom at S.J. 'We're playing this game in case there's a situation with an intruder and we need to hide so we don't get caught, so we don't get hurt,' Caysen said. The point of the massive hide-and-seek game was to illustrate one of three strategies in Huval's active shooter training - run, hide, fight - in a way that kids might understand and remember. Huval still found him, though, behind a weight bench in a fitness room. Huval walked right past him at the start of the game.Īmarian's big brother, Caysen Breaux, started off hiding near the door of the gym but thought that was too obvious. The seven-year-old was behind a trash can in a far corner of the gym the whole time. The last of about 30 kids at the Lafayette day camp Wednesday to be found is Amarian Smothers. The boy joined Carlasya and M'layiah in the gym as Huval continued his search of the big building.