Tara Marie Drummond was killed during her recruit training class in Kennesaw, Georgia on September 13, 2006. Her instructor was attempting to involve the students in an exercise that would ultimately begin to prepare the new officers for the realities of pointing a firearm at another human being. Unfortunately, due to ineffective safety protocols, live weapons and conventional ammunition were present in a classroom setting that prohibited both. The instructor reached into a box of cartridges that he thought to be filled with inert training cartridges and inadvertantly loaded a chambered a conventional round. When he demonstrated the drill against Tara, he shot her in the chest. She died shortly thereafter. This discussion forum will discuss and track the situation as it makes its way through the torturous legal system. Tara's family is seeking an overhaul of the system that led to this tragedy and the RBTA is providing information and support in an effort to assist in the development of training standards within the State of Georgia to ensure similar future tragedies will be avoided.
