11 Students Hospitalized Due To Mace In Cafeteria: Officials

BALTIMORE COUNTY, MD — Officials said 11 students were hospitalized after mace was sprayed in their school cafeteria Tuesday morning in Baltimore County. Their injuries were described as minor.

Emergency personnel were called to Southwest Academy, where mace was sprayed in the cafeteria, at 11:39 a.m., according to public safety officials.

Baltimore County firefighters evacuated and ventilated the building that houses the magnet school in the 6200 block of Johnnycake Road.

By 1 p.m., crews said the building had been ventilated, and students were returning.