CLAYTON, N.C. (WTVD) -- Two Clayton High School students are in trouble after setting off a firework in one of the school's bathrooms.
It happened near the end of the school day on May 31.
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Investigators said the sound of the firework terrified some students who heard it and thought it was a gunshot.
Heavy smoke then billowed out of the bathroom and into the hallway. The firework explosion also damaged one of the walls in the bathroom.
Nobody was injured.
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Clayton Police Department arrested student Amiere Dayvon Coates, 18, and charged him with multiple felonies including burning a school building, malicious use of an explosive and burning a public building. He was placed in jail under a $125,000 bond.
A juvenile petition was also filed for the other student involved in what happened. That student was identified as being 16 years old; their identity was not released.