UPDATE: High School Students Arrested for Weapons Charges

UPDATE (8:20 p.m.): The Atlanta Police Department has released additional information about their investigation into allegations that a student brought a weapon to Frederick Douglass High School on Wednesday.

According to department spokesman John Chafee, resource officers at the school were alerted to the possibility that a student was carrying a weapon on campus at approximately 11:30 a.m. The officers immediately began looking for the student and the gun. They eventually tracked down three juvenile students, but none of them had the gun on them at the time.

Officers soon discovered the weapon hidden on school property, and determined that each of the three students had possessed the gun during the school day. All three were arrested and taken to the Fulton County Youth Detention Center.

Each student now faces charges of disrupting public schools, possession of a firearm on school property, and possession of a firearm while under 18 years old.

UPDATE (3:20 p.m.): Atlanta Public Schools has announced the lockdown at Frederick Douglass High School has been cleared and normal dismissal procedures are in effect. The school was locked down after a student was arrested for allegedly bringing a firearm onto campus.

UPDATE (3:00 p.m.): Atlanta Public Schools has confirmed the hard lockdown at Frederick Douglass High School has been cancelled after a student was arrested for allegedly bringing a gun on campus. APS says that robo-calls should be going out shortly to parents to update them on the situation.

ORIGINAL STORY (12:55 p.m.): A student at Frederick Douglass High School has been arrested after police say he brought a gun on to the campus.

The Atlanta-Journal Constitution reports that nobody was injured at the school. Atlanta Public Schools confirms the campus is still on lockdown and parents and guardians are being notified of the situation. The school district adds that visitors are being barred entry to the campus at this time.

WSB-TV reports that it has confirmed that the student is a male, and reports that officers and SWAT personnel are currently sweeping the school.

The Atlanta Police Department is expected to give a briefing on the situation shortly.