LITTLE ROCK, Ark.- A survivor of the 1998 Westside Middle School shooting is speaking out after this week’s deadly school shooting in Minnesota and a wave of false active shooter reports on college campuses across the country, including the University of Arkansas.

When news broke on Wednesday that a gunman opened fire inside a Minneapolis church filled with schoolchildren, killing two and injuring 17, it shook the nation. Among those watching in horror was Alex Beasley, a survivor of the 1998 Westside Middle School shooting in Craighead County, Arkansas.

Beasley was in the seventh grade when two classmates pulled a fire alarm and opened fire as students and teachers evacuated.

Four girls and a teacher were killed, and ten more were injured.

More than 25 years later, Beasley says the Mi

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