Student Tory Deaunte-Terrell Favors Brought Gun to Athens School

School officials at Clarke County School District reported a student brought a loaded sawed-off shotgun to school on Friday, May 8.

Director of Public Relations and Communications Anisa Sullivan Jimenez said in a statement, the student was near an exit door when he engaged in a verbal argument with another student.

According to the statement, the student pulled the weapon from his backpack at some point during the argument. Ms. Jimenze said a school resource officer, who had been alerted to the argument, appeared at which caused the armed student to run.

Athens-Clarke County police said the student was later apprehended off campus and was identified as 17-year-old Tory Deaunte-Terrell Favors. Police charged Favors with aggravated assault, possessing a deadly weapon, carrying a concealed weapon, having a weapon in a school building and obstruction of a police officer. Favors remains in the Clarke County Jail.

Ms. Jimenze said in the statement, there was a failure on the part of one or more staff at SOAR Academy to follow established procedures which originally allowed the student to enter the school with the weapon.