ATLANTA — Police say three students are facing charges after a handgun was found at Frederick Douglass High School Wednesday afternoon.
The school is on Hamilton E. Holmes Drive in northwest Atlanta.
Around 11:30 a.m., a student told a teacher he or she saw someone at the school with the weapon. Police were called, forcing a campus lockdown.
Police recovered the gun on the school grounds around 3:30 p.m. Police detained three students they say had been in possession of the gun.
They've each been charged with possession of a firearm on school property, possession of a firearm under 18 years old and disrupting public schools.
Atlanta police have not released the names of the students charged in the case.