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Fayetteville Teen Arrested After Allegedly Taking Gun To School

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Lamar Hagood
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — A Cumberland County high school student charged with taking a gun onto a school campus was expected to make his first court appearance Tuesday.

Deputies arrested Lamar Teriek Hagood, 16, of Fayetteville, Monday at Westover High School and charged him with bringing a weapon on to school property.

A group of concerned students alerted school officials, investigators said, after seeing Hagood with what appeared to be a handgun on campus.

Hagood, who is being charged as an adult, was placed in the Cumberland County Detention Center where he was being held under a $1,000 secured bond.

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