The 2013 Moore tornado struck two public schools during school hours, the second of which was Plaza Towers Elementary. Another elementary school, Briarwood Elementary in Oklahoma City, located about southwest of Plaza Towers, was also hit, but no casualties were reported there. The storm destroyed the school building and killed seven third-grade students when the wall they had been seated against while bracing for the tornado collapsed onto them. News reports had initially incorrectly reported that the children had drowned in a pool, a statement later corrected to report that one of the students had died from blunt force trauma, while the other six suffocated due to the weight of the debris they were trapped underneath. Over 75 students were located at the school at the time. The school did not have a "safe room" in which students could take shelter from a natural disaster. In a broadcast with CNN, Piers Morgan held a live interview with Mikki Davis, whose 8-year-old son Kyle was among those killed at Plaza Towers. In the interview, Davis expressed vivid concern over why this school had not been built with proper safe spaces; the majority of schools in Oklahoma at the time also lacked safe spaces. Betsy Gunzelmann, author of "Developing Safer Schools and Communities for Our Children: The Interdisciplinary Responsibility of Our Time", wrote that lives could have been saved if such a room was present. According to Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management Albert Ashwood, the cost of a safe room would have ranged from $600,000 to $1 million.