(NewsNation) — A teacher at a North Carolina Middle School disarmed a student who shot a gun on campus last Thursday.

Fuquay-Varina Middle School was placed on a “code-red lockdown” the morning of Dec. 8 after a student fired a gun at a window, NewsNation local affiliate WNCN reported.

Other students were unpacking backpacks and slowly moving into their homerooms when a student fired the shot in teacher Lynn Guilliams’ 6th-grade classroom. Guilliams told NewsNation that her instinct kicked in to keep all of her students safe — including the one with the gun.

“Two of my co-workers came running down from the other direction, yelling, ‘Clear the hall, clear the hall, code red,'” Guilliams said. “So at that point, I knew something was going on.”

It’s a scenario they had practiced before — Guilliams followed protocol, getting as many kids into her classroom as possible, locking the door, turning off the lights and moving kids to the corner — all except one.

“I said, ‘Come on, you need to move over with everybody else,’ and he bent down, and with his left hand, picked up a gun,” Guilliams recalled. “As I was looking at it, I was in total shock and disbelief, primarily because I was assuming that whatever was going on was going on in a different part of the school or outside.”

Guilliams instinctively asked the student: “What is that?” To which he replied: “a gun.”

The teacher blinked for a second.

“It was frightening. But as soon as I opened my eyes again, he was my student,” Guilliams said. “He’s 12 years old, and he’s not allowed to have that in my classroom.”

To defuse the situation, Guilliams told the student to stay where he was, as she walked over and took the gun from him.

“He never pointed it at me,” Guilliams said. “He was never threatening in any way to me or any of the students that were in the classroom.”

There were no injuries to students, staff or officers. The boy is being held and served with a juvenile petition. He told Guilliams he got the gun from his mom and stepdad’s drawer.

Police told NewsNation the firearm used was a Taurus G3XL. Only one round was discharged and the Wake County Sheriff’s Office seized the gun.

Seth Lanterman-Schneider, 39, is now facing charges of failing to properly store the gun used in the shooting.

Fuquay-Varina Mayor Blake Massengill said the incident shook the community, but thankfully, students and teachers were safe because of “extensive training and the swift response.”

“Today, that training served everyone well,” he said.

The day after the incident, the school had a Teacher Workday to give students, families and staff space to process what happened.

Guilliams, Elliott, another teacher and a student will be honored at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Fuquay-Varina town commissioners’ meeting, police said.

NewsNation local affiliate WNCN contributed to this report.

In this aerial view, former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate is seen on September 14, 2022 in Palm Beach, Florida.

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• Government documents found at Donald Trump’s club and home Mar-a-Lago were left vulnerable.
• According to The New York Times, Trump stored many of the documents in half-open storage rooms.
• Documents were left among beach chairs and umbrellas, as Trump hosted at least 50 political events.

Government documents found at former President Donald Trump’s club and residence Mar-a-Lago were stored in semi-open storage rooms — the same club that hosted dozens of events where guests partied and swam in close proximity to classified documents.

Boxes of documents were stored between beach chairs and umbrellas in storage rooms near the resort’s central patios and outdoor spaces used to host events. Guests were only sixty feet away from the documents at times, according to a sweeping visual investigation by The New York Times, which shed light on the nature of the storage of government documents that included some marked “classified.”

According to the Times, Trump hosted at least 50 political events in the first 19 months after leaving office. Many of the events were held either in the central outdoor space near the estate’s pool or in the White and Gold Ballroom.

Less than 60 feet away from the White and Gold Ballroom, where event attendees spilled out onto an awning, multiple storage rooms were used to stash the documents. The storage rooms — lining the pool where guests swam, and around the corner from the ballroom — feature arched doors that per The Times were frequently kept half-open, and were open during at least four political events.

The investigation follows a ruling from a federal appeals court in early December that a special master must stop reviewing the government documents that were found and taken at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, handing the Justice Department a big win.

A spokesperson for Trump maintained that only certain staff could access the room, and did not immediately return Insider’s request for more information. For months, Trump had succeeded in using lower courts to delay the DOJ’s criminal investigation into the documents he held onto as administrations changed over.

Initially, the special master was tasked with reviewing all the documents that were recovered at Mar-a-Lago, including 11,000 general records and 100 documents marked as classified, with the goal of determining whether any of the documents are protected by attorney-client or executive privilege.

The move to appoint a special master opened an unprecedented Pandora’s box of concerns for national security experts.

In mid-November, US Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that special prosecutor Jack Smith would oversee criminal investigations into Trump, based on the former president’s decision to run for office again.