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Posted: 3:29 a.m. Friday, March 1, 2013
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By Daphne Young
News/Talk WSB
ATLANTA —
The Grady High School student, who accidentally shot herself in the leg on Wednesday, is spending more time in jail.
Morgan Tukes has more issues to answer for.
The 17-year-old will be in court at 9 a.m. Friday to face hit-and-run charges from October 2012.
Thursday morning a judge set the teenager’s bond at $41,000. But as she was being processed to leave the Fulton County jail, authorities discovered there was a warrant for her arrest in connection with a hit-and run, Fulton County Sherriff’s spokeswoman Tracy Flanagan told News/Talk WSB.
An Atlanta Police Department report indicates that Tukes struck a city vehicle in a parking lot near 526 Ponce De Leon Avenue, NE on October 12. A Fulton County Deputy attempted to pull Tukes over, but officers say she fled the scene.
As part of her bond, a judge ordered Tukes to stay 100 yards away from the Grady High campus. She is not allowed to have a firearm and firearms are not allowed in the house where she is staying.
A hearing is set on the gun charges March 14 in Fulton Superior Court.
School officials learned of the shooting when Tukes walked into the school clinic, bleeding, around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday. Atlanta City School Superintendent Erroll Davis said the girl was late for class and was let into the Midtown school’s gymnasium by two other students.
Tukes told administrators she did not pass through the school’s metal detectors with the pink .380-caliber handgun she was carrying.
Several students told the AJC the metal detectors work, but are not watched very closely. For example, students are not required to remove rings or belts when passing through the detectors.
The assistant principal — not law enforcement — supervises the screening process, Davis said, adding they prefer placing school resource officers elsewhere.
“Our schools were not designed to be fortresses,” he said. “They were designed to be places of learning.”
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