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Student fires gun at DeKalb middle school; no one hurt

By Ty Tagami
April 2, 2010

A student fired a gun at a DeKalb County middle school Thursday, but no one was hurt.

Parents with children attending Chapel Hill Middle School received a letter when their kids got home.

It said a 13-year-old boy fired a handgun in the boy's restroom at about 12:15 p.m.

Two other students were there at the time, the letter said, but no one was hurt.

A school police officer took the boy into custody.

Dale Davis, a spokesman for the county school system, confirmed that there was a shooting there and issued a news release that said the same thing as the letter that went to parents.

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Ty Tagami is a staff writer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Since joining the newspaper in 2002, he has written about everything from hurricanes to homelessness. He has deep experience covering local government and education, and can often be found under the Gold Dome when lawmakers meet or in a school somewhere in the state.

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