Utah teacher charged after gun fired in bathroom

SALT LAKE CITY - A Utah schoolteacher who was injured by fragments from a bullet and a porcelain toilet when her gun accidentally went off in a faculty bathroom has been charged with a misdemeanor and resigned.

Online court records show 39-year-old Michelle Montgomery was charged this month with discharge of a firearm in a prohibited area within city limits. An arraignment is scheduled for Nov. 5.

Granite School District spokesman Ben Horsley says Montgomery was facing discipline for violating school policy, but she wasn't fired. He says Montgomery informed the district Thursday she wouldn't be coming back to her position as a sixth-grade teacher at Westbrook Elementary School, in the Salt Lake City suburb of Taylorsville.

Montgomery was carrying her gun legally with a concealed-firearm permit when the gun went off Sept. 11.