San Diego teacher pleads guilty to carrying gun to school

A middle school English teacher in San Diego pleaded guilty Wednesday to taking a gun and ammunition to campus.

An attorney for Ned Carter Walker, 41, said his client had the weapon to protect his students in case of a violent incident.

In exchange for the guilty plea, a second felony charge of having a lock-blade knife was dropped during a hearing in San Diego County Superior Court.

Walker faces a possible five years in prison when sentenced in August. He is also expected to be fired. He has taught in the district since 2006.

Walker has been on administrative leave since being arrested in February as he walked to his classroom at Farb Middle School in the Tierrasanta neighborhood. He has been free on $50,000 bail.

School police had been informed that Walker kept weapons in his classroom. The semiautomatic gun was registered to Walker, officials said.

Police found the weapons on Walker, along with a magazine with seven rounds, officials said. He offered no resistance, they said.

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