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Shotgun at school alarming

The Clarke County School District is investigating how a 17-year-old SOAR Academy student managed to get through security with a loaded sawed-off shotgun, which he used to threaten another student at the punitive school.

"We dropped the ball over there," Frank Platt, the school district's police chief, said Monday. "There were some policies that were not followed, so there is an administrative review going on so that we can correct some things, so that something like this will not happen again."

School district policy prohibits bookbags at SOAR Academy and requires that each student be screened with a metal-detecting wand before entering the building, which is at 440 Dearing Extension in West Athens.

"The breakdown occurred when he was allowed to come through the door with the backpack," Platt said.

A school staff member spotted and took away the bookbag, but it wasn't immediately clear how he got back the bag, according to Anisa Jimenez, a school district spokeswoman.

"That's what we're trying to figure out, is what happened to it after it was confiscated," Jimenez said.

A 911 caller told Athens-Clarke police about 11:15 a.m. Friday that someone had a gun in the school.

The threatened student told police and administrators that Tory Deaunte-Terrell Favors, of Barrington Place, pulled the gun out of a bookbag after they had a fight and said, "Do you want some of this?"

A school camera recorded Favors picking up a black bookbag from the floor near the school entrance, opening it and displaying the handle of the shotgun, which had white tape around the grip, according to a police report.

A school resource officer chased Favors across West Broad Street and into the Rocksprings neighborhood, where he tossed the bookbag onto the patio of a woman's home, Platt said.

Police recovered the bookbag and caught Favors a short time later, charging him with aggravated assault, possessing a deadly weapon, carrying a concealed weapon, having a weapon in a school building and obstruction of a police officer.

He remains in the Clarke County Jail.

In addition to criminal charges, school district administrators also plan to hold a hearing to decide whether to expel Favors.

The school district also will install walk-through metal detectors at the school in time for fall semester.

"We're definitely taking steps to make sure something like this does not happen in the future," Jimenez said. "We're just glad no one was seriously injured."

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