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FM123

(10,053 posts)
Wed Feb 28, 2018, 03:21 PM Feb 2018

Shots fired in Georgia school by teacher, kids are all okay.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/cops-teacher-in-custody-after-shots-fired-at-dalton-georgia-high-school

News is still unfolding....
Dalton Police Department Tweet:
New update:
UPDATE: The teacher involved in this morning’s incident is Jesse Randall Davidson, 53, social studies teacher. Also serves as play by play voice of the Dalton football team.

UPDATE: The subject is IN CUSTODY
UPDATE: Students are being taken to the Nw GA Trade and Convention Center. Parents should rendezvous with their students there.
Dalton Police officers are on scene at Dalton High School responding a report of shots fired. At the time, there is a barricaded subject in a classroom. Investigators believe it is a teacher. NO CHILDREN. HAVE BEEN INJURED. NO CHILDREN ARE IN DANGER. The area inside the school has been evacuated and there are no students believed to be in the school at this time. The school is locked down. DPD and Georgia State Patrol are responding.
PARENTS DO NOT COME TO DALTON HIGH. Students will be taken to the Northwest Georgia Trade Center. Parents should go there.
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lunasun

(21,646 posts)
4. The students were told about that project in January . How could so many not have anything to show
Wed Feb 28, 2018, 03:50 PM
Feb 2018

for it, no outline nothing by this date and know it is due march 1st ! Huh?

But this is real


kentuck

(111,095 posts)
6. We need to arm the janitors to keep an eye on the teachers??
Wed Feb 28, 2018, 03:56 PM
Feb 2018

Is that next?

They act as if the solution to everything is a gun.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
7. The shots were fired when the principal tried to unlock the room he locked himself in
Wed Feb 28, 2018, 04:02 PM
Feb 2018

so forget about the principal . Absolute gunsanity

RKP5637

(67,108 posts)
9. If we didn't have so many F'en guns, a gun fetish, we would be a far better country into
Wed Feb 28, 2018, 04:41 PM
Feb 2018

the future. Arming teachers, how F'en crazy is this going to get.

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