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LAFAYETTE â Former White County Sheriff Patrick Shafer has been dismissed from a federal lawsuit filed by a group of Meadowlawn Elementary School teachers alleging he was partly responsible for a January 2019 school shooting survival exercise gone awry.
The US District Court, Northern District of Indiana granted Shafer a stipulation of dismissal and dismissed with prejudice the lawsuitâs claims against him that he violated several of the teachersâ constitutional rights when they were shot with plastic pellets from an Airsoft gun, verbally abused, mocked and threatened during a pre-planned ALICE active-shooter training at Meadowlawn.
âWhile serving as sheriff, my endeavor was to provide informative and beneficial training to the four school corporations in White County,â Shafer said. âI believe this was accomplished by not only using members of the sheriffâs department, but also in a joint effort with the Monticello Police