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Ex-NFL player Jonathan Martin taken into custody in connection with Instagram post that closed school

LOS ANGELES - Former NFL player and Harvard-Westlake alumnus Jonathan Martin was taken into custody Friday in connection with an Instagram post that displayed a shotgun and referenced the Los Angeles school by name, a source told the Los Angeles Times.

A picture of the weapon with the words Harvard Westlake written across the barrel triggered the school's closure on Friday, according to three sources.

The image, which referenced revenge and suicide as

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