August 8, 2014
A 17-year-old boy has a gun. He’s holed up in a drainage ditch in a Vail neighborhood while negotiators try to talk him down. And after almost five hours, he surrenders peacefully. Pima Regional SWAT Sgt. Christy Anderson says a recent Mental Health First Aid course for the negotiators helped do that. Link to Source
A 17-year-old boy has a gun. He’s holed up in a drainage ditch in a Vail neighborhood while negotiators try to talk him down.
And after almost five hours, he surrenders peacefully. Pima Regional SWAT Sgt. Christy Anderson says a recent Mental Health First Aid course for the negotiators helped do that.
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