ATLANTA, United States. – A high school teacher in Georgia, in the United States, was arrested after he allegedly shot the gun he was carrying and barricaded himself in one of the classrooms of the educational center.

After hearing the shots, the police were alerted and surrounded Dalton High School, located in Dalton, north of Atlanta, and evacuated students and professors shortly after noon on Wednesday, local time.

The local police indicated that they could arrest the professor minutes after he entrenched, in an incident in which only one pupil was reported to have been injured in an ankle when running inside the school during the evacuation.

The identity of the teacher and the motives that led to the situation have not yet been reported.This shootout takes place two weeks after that in Parkland High School in South Florida.