North Gwinnett News

School leaders, staff, community members, parents and law enforcement all recently met to address safety concerns in Gwinnett County after a student was shot to death in the area earlier this month.

The key focus of the so-called a “Code-Red” meeting was school violence and what is being done to keep students safe, a FOX 5 Atlanta report said. 

"We just want to know what's going on and what's being done," Clayton Bolds, who has two children in Gwinnett County Public Schools, told FOX 5.

The meeting was convened in the wake of 17-year-old Norcross High School student DeAndre Henderson being shot and killed on Oct. 26 during school hours less than a mile from campus, the report said. That pushed the number of overall violent incidents that have taken place in Gwinnett County Schools over the last several weeks to at least three.

While insisting that there are no quick fixes to resolving all of the problems, Gwinnett County Police Chief J.D. McClure assured that the department is working closely with local schools to combat crime; the report said. He added that parents need to also remember and understand that safety begins at home.