“Shots fired. Shots fired in the Dadeville Elementary School lunchroom. We have multiple gunshot victims” came across the radios Friday but it was only a drill.
“We have been planning this since November,” Tallapoosa County EMA director Jason Moran said. “It has taken a lot to get here.”
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