All offices of the San Diego Regional Center were closed Wednesday in response to the mass shooting at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino.
Ron Plotkin of the San Diego center announced via Facebook that the precautionary decision was made “for security for the staff, clients and services providers that frequent the SDRC offices.”
“With shock and horror, we share the tragic mass shooting that occurred at the Inland Regional Center,” Plotkin wrote. “Our hearts are open with supportive prayers to those in the cross-hairs of this senseless, horrific event.”
All four regional offices in San Diego were closed. The center in Imperial County was also closed as a precaution.
SDRC announced at 2:20 p.m. via their Facebook page that all offices would reopen Thursday for regular business hours.
Officers were sent to the San Diego location at 4355 Ruffin Road at 12:30 p.m., but nothing out of the ordinary was reported, San Diego Police Department spokesman Officer Joshua Hodge said.
Details of the shooting at the San Bernardino treatment center for people with developmental disabilities were still sketchy, and the motivation for the attack was not immediately known.
San Bernardino police said this afternoon that as many as 14 people were killed and another 14 were wounded in the shooting at the center at 1365 S. Waterman Ave., which occurred at about 11 a.m.
They said the three suspected gunmen were believed to have fled the scene in a dark SUV.
According to the facility’s Facebook page, the Inland Regional Center has nearly 670 staff members and provides services to more than 30,200 people with developmental disabilities and their families in San Bernardino and Riverside counties.
— City News Service
