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Student arrested after gun found at Cedar Shoals High School

Athens-Clarke County Police say the loaded gun found on a student at Cedar Shoals High School could be the same gun used in this week’s drive-by shootings, in which shots were fired into a home on Martin Court in Athens. The 15 year-old is being held at the Youth Detention Center in Gainesville.

Athens-Clarke County police spokesman Geof Gilland tells news outlets the teenager was arrested Wednesday after he was found with the gun authorities have linked to the two shootings. Police say a school resource officer found the gun in his backpack.

Police did not identify the student. Authoriites say he was taken into custody at Cedar Shoals High on a charge of possessing a gun on school grounds and two aggravated assault counts.

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