TWIGGS COUNTY, Ga. — Law enforcement found shell casings Tuesday morning in a student's car parked at the Twiggs County High School and Middle School building, prompting a roughly hour-long "code red" and "code yellow" warning as they investigated.
That's according to a press release from the Twiggs County Board of Education.
They noted that while shell casings and weaponry were found, no firearms were discovered.
The district has canceled all after-school activities and athletic events "out of an abundance of caution." That included the softball game against Wilkinson County scheduled for Tuesday.
According to the press release, the district says the discovery of the shell casings happened during a "routine security check" when law enforcement discovered the shell casings.
The student was then immediately contacted and taken to the main office, the district said. In an interview, the district would not share what grade the student was in.
The student's parents were immediately notified and the district says "appropriate disciplinary actions were taken" but does not share what those actions were. They say any of the confiscated items were then secured by campus police and the Twiggs County Sheriff's Office.
According to the Director of Human Resources Shannon L. Dotsikas, the "code red" was in effect until all school officials arrived on the scene, all the shells and weaponry were secured and disciplinary action was taken
Then the school was placed in a code yellow which was then suspended shortly thereafter.
We asked the Twiggs County Board of Education for a clearer idea of what the "code red" and "code yellow" designations mean, but we have yet to hear back.
According to Dotsikas, instruction was only interrupted for roughly an hour before classes resumed.
It comes as school safety is top of mind in Georgia and across the U.S. after the deadly school shooting at Apalachee High School outside of Athens.
One Central Georgia school district, Telfair County, canceled school for Tuesday after a TikTok post circulated threatening violence at the high school.
That person joins the growing list of students and community members taken into custody for making threatening posts.
