Two students at Gwinnett County’s Peachtree Ridge High School were arrested Tuesday after administrators received a tip that a student had a gun on campus, Principal Kevin Tashlein said in a note to parents. An investigation uncovered evidence that a student was in possession of an unloaded gun and had received it from another student. Both students were arrested and face criminal charges and school disciplinary action, Tashlein said.

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