Georgia Teacher Arrested After Barricading Himself in Classroom, Firing Shot

By John Falkenberg

DALTON, GA — The small town of Dalton, Georgia was thrown into turmoil when a deeply disturbed high school teacher barricaded himself into a classroom and fired a handgun, Fox News reports.

We aren’t talking about an incident on the level of the Parkland, Florida tragedy last week; the teacher closed himself in a room with no students inside, and the only injury sustained as a minor one sustained in the evacuation.

Still, the situation was extremely dangerous.

As Fox News reports:

The Dalton Police Department identifed the teacher as Jesse Randall Davidson, 53, a social studies teacher who also does play-by-play announcements during the school’s football games. He has been employed with the school since 2004.

Davidson was charged with aggravated assault, carrying a weapon on school grounds, terroristic threats, reckless conduct, possession of a gun during commission of a crime and disrupting public school, police said in a tweet.

The department earlier tweeted a person, believed to be a teacher, was barricaded inside a classroom. The person allegedly would not allow students into the room, police said.

Dalton High School was placed on lockdown and police confirmed no children were in any danger and there weren’t any students inside …Read the Rest

Source:: Concealed Nation