Everest College Thornton's Mock Crime Scene Exposed
Recently, Everest College Thornton's criminal justice, medical assisting and surgical technician departments teamed up to conduct a mock crime scene.
Dana Griffith, adjunct instructor, organized the efforts with the help of the program chairs.
The crime involved a workplace love triangle shooting of a male and a female. Criminal justice students played the roles of investigators, CSI technicians, detectives, law enforcement officers, victims, suspects and witnesses.
The crime scene began in an "office" (a classroom at the school), continued down the hallway where the suspect hid his firearm, and ended at a nearby park where the suspect was arrested.
Medical Assisting students conducted triage and administered initial emergency care until the victims were transported by ambulance for treatment.
The female victim was rushed to the "emergency room" on a gurney. The male victim was pronounced dead at the scene and taken to the "morgue" for identification.
After assessing the extent of the female victim's wounds, the surgical technicians, consisting of instructors and students, moved the victim to the operating room for mock surgery to remove two bullets from his abdomen. (An anatomical dummy replaced the victim for the actually surgery.)
At the same time, the criminal justice students and two instructors filmed and photographed the crime scene to further research the crime.
The crime scene and subsequent emergency care administered may have become a bit too real!
Despite the efforts to inform everyone at the campus that this was merely an exercise, a police car, an ambulance and a fire truck arrived at the college in response to someone's call for help!
