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T. Heung Hui

Teacher, assistant principal praised for disarming student who fired gun in North Carolina classroom

FUQUAY-VARINA, N.C. — A Wake County teacher and assistant principal are being credited with disarming a student who fired a gun in a classroom Thursday morning at Fuquay-Varina Middle School.

In a message posted on the school’s website, it said that during morning arrival at 7:59 a.m., a student fired a weapon inside a classroom, damaging a window. The school immediately went into a Code Red lockdown.

The school says a teacher heard the gunshot and immediately entered the classroom.

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