UPDATE from ABC 7 News at 5:00 by Julie Parker: A police officer was maced, a security guard was bitten, and a D.C. high school student is under arrest.

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It all unfolded at Ballou High School this morning.

The student is being charged with assaulting a police officer. Four people went to the hospital -- including the student -- who police say brought his own mace into the school.

Just after classes began, D.C. police descended on Ballou. The call went out at about 9:45 a.m. as an aggravated assault on a police officer.

"We have little skirmishes and fights that go on, but nothing really violent -- or anything where a student resists to this degree," said Lt. Renato Caldwell.

Police took a pair of shoes and a backpack into evidence in connection with the alleged attack. Police say a Ballou student, a juvenile, walked into the building where police were waiting for him. They say he was wanted on a warrant for a probation violation in Virginia.

They say as they arrested him, he lashed out -- spraying a police officer with the student's own can of mace. They say he also assaulted a private security guard.

Students say their peers, who ran to see what was happening, walked right into the cloud of mace.

"They was breathing heavily, choking, their eyes was watering," said student Alexis Beckham. "... they got sent home."

A second security guard also went to the hospital for the residual effects of mace. All four patients have now been released.

The student remains in police custody.

Original Story:

A D.C. police officer sustained a mace-related injury this morning at Ballou High School at 3401 4th St SE, according to police reports.

D.C. police received a call at 9:44 a.m. for an aggravated assault at the school. According to Renato Caldwell of the D.C. police department, a Ballou student came through the main entrance of the school at about 9:30 a.m. Police were on the premises waiting to apprehend the student, who had multiple arrest warrants.

According to the official account, the student resisted police, and mace was sprayed, possibly by the suspect. The suspect is now being treated for mace-related injuries, as is the police officer.

A private security guard was bitten in the arm during the confrontation.

The suspect's arrest warrants include one for violating probation in Virginia.

Reporting by ABC 7's Julie Parker.

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