Live Shooter Drill Thursday at Woodrow Wilson Elementary

New Brunswick, NJ - The New Brunswick police department held a live shooter drill Thursday morning at Woodrow Wilson elementary school in New Brunswick.

The Woodrow Wilson drill was not done in response to the Orlando incident. The date and location of this drill were picked last June, according to Peter Mangarella, Director of Security for New Brunswick Public Schools.

The drill was done with staff at the school, and it ended at 11:15 a.m. Interestingly, Rutgers University held an armed suspect drill also Thursday morning, and caught some flak from students who said the school caused a panic with poorly worded alert texts.

Rutgers had also planned its drill prior to the Orlando shooting, and Rutgers police told Patch it was a mere coincidence that both drills occurred the same morning, as they were not planned to occur together.

A public safety drill is done at a different New Brunswick school each year. This is the fourth year that the district has done a drill, and it’s a different school and scenario each year.

Stock image of an active shooter drill done by the National Guard.