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Teacher barricades himself in class, fires gun
No one injured in Dalton High School incident
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In this Feb. 24, 2018 photo, the main entrance of Dalton High School is shown, in Dalton, Ga. Police in Georgia say officers are responding to reports of shots fired at the high school and a teacher who may have been barricaded in a classroom is in custody. - photo by Associated Press
ATLANTA — A social studies teacher barricaded himself inside a classroom at a Georgia high school on Wednesday and fired a handgun in what may have been a warning shot, authorities said.No students were in the classroom at the time, and the only injury was a student who hurt her ankle running when Dalton High School was evacuated. It wasn't immediately clear why the teacher had the gun and school and fired it.The shooting happened with a nation on edge two weeks after a Florida school shooting left 17 students and faculty dead and ignited a new debate over gun control in America. Within minutes of the shooting, students hunkered down at Dalton High took to social media to call for restricting gun rights.The teacher, 53-year-old Jesse Randal Davidson, was taken into custody without incident after a 30- to 45-minute standoff with officers, Dalton police spokesman Bruce Frazier said.
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