By Matthew Hay Brown matthew.brown@baltsun.com
December 21, 2008
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/harford/bal-te.norman21dec21,0,3932411.story
A Harford County high school teacher who was arrested last month after being accused of slapping a 16-year-old female student on the buttocks was found dead of a gunshot wound in his home Saturday night.
Brian Norman, 34, a history teacher at North Harford High School in Pylesville, was discovered in his home in the 1600 block of Denise Drive in Forest Hill shortly before 8 p.m. by friends concerned for his well-being, Harford County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Monica Worrell said.
Norman was arrested Nov. 13 and charged with a fourth-degree sexual offense, second-degree assault and threatening school employees with bodily harm. Police said he slapped a student after a history class Oct. 24 and made death threats to unnamed school employees the same day.
Police said an investigation revealed that Norman had telephoned and text-messaged the student and, on several occasions, had driven her to the Harford Mall in Bel Air. He was placed on administrative leave and sent to a psychiatric facility, from which he was released.
Norman was free on $25,000 bond after his arrest.
Before the shooting last night, Norman had expressed to friends that he was distressed, Worrell said. Police were investigating.
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