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Law enforcement officers responded to a false report of an active shooter at Brainerd High School on Wednesday, putting the school on lockdown and shutting down traffic on North Moore Road as officers worked to clear the campus of the possible threat.
It was the Uvalde, Texas, school massacre in May which took the lives of 19 children and two adults at Robb Elementary School that prompted Hamilton County Schools, and school districts around the nation, to heighten security measures.
A small crowd gathered at Brainerd High School on Monday evening to offer feedback on Hamilton County Schools plans to rezone areas of East Ridge and Brainerd. Their main concerns centered around how it might change the racial demographics of the affected schools, and some were worried rezoning would slate Brainerd High for future closure.