Community leaders agree to safety steps after teen shot to death outside high school
The Knoxville News-Sentinel 2/17/2021 Tyler Whetstone, Isabel Lohman and Travis Dorman, Knoxville News Sentinel
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As the community reels from the shooting death of 16-year-old Austin-East High School student Stanley Freeman Jr., city and county leaders agreed to increase security around the school.
Knoxville Mayor Indya Kincannon, Knox County Schools Superintendent Bob Thomas and Knoxville Police Chief Eve Thomas also discussed longer-term solutions when they met Monday to talk about solutions.
They agreed on the following:
Austin-East will receive three additional police school resource officers. This will bring the total number of school resource officers at the school to four. The officers’ focus will remain outside the school, city spokeswoman Kristin Farley said, because the city wants to emphasize that