Friday, December 29, 2023

Questions over campus security, repairs linger in wake of UNLV shooting - Jacob Solis, the Nevada Independent

University officials have not publicly released information on how much structural damage has been done across campus. That includes not only the cleanup of Frank and Estella Beam Hall — the site of the shooting — but also what multiple faculty and administrative sources described as at least “hundreds” of broken doors in every building on campus. Those doors were, in many cases, damaged by Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department SWAT teams utilizing small battering rams to quickly enter rooms and clear buildings of sheltering students and faculty in the hours after the shooting stopped. The damage will likely be covered by insurance, according to administrators and faculty who spoke with The Nevada Independent. But the price tag for necessary repairs was still being calculated as of last week, and no timeline exists for when funds to complete those repairs will be released.