A California high school football coach was taken into custody Friday after students allegedly found a cellphone covertly recording inside a campus locker room as they changed, authorities said.

Tracy Police said Saturday that the device was traced to Jeffrey Pribble, 48, a teacher at Tracy High School, located east of San Francisco.

School website information and social media pages identify Pribble as Tracy High School’s varsity football head coach and a member of its physical education staff.

According to his Facebook page, Pribble had spent five years leading the football program and had worked as an educator in the district for 22 years.

Officials said the alleged recording device was discovered Thursday by one student and several classmates inside the locker room.

The students halted the recording, deleted the footage and gave the cellphone to a teacher, authorities said.

Later Thursday, a parent contacted Tracy police out of concern. School resource officers and detectives subsequently began investigating the incident.

Investigators determined the next day that the phone belonged to Pribble, leading to his arrest Friday, police said.

The Tracy Unified School District said Pribble has been placed on leave while both a criminal investigation and a separate district review remain underway.

According to the Pleasanton Weekly, Tracy High Principal Jon Waggle acknowledged the arrest of an employee in an email to parents.

The school did not identify the teacher or the specific allegations but noted that the district was fully cooperating with police.

“We understand that this news may raise serious concerns in the District community. The District too is concerned about the well-being of its students and staff and is committed to holding its employees to the highest professional and ethical standards,” Waggle wrote.

“Tracy High School and all our Tracy Unified schools are proud of being safe schools. The cooperation between students, parents and staff members keeps our schools safe and is important and appreciated. Thank you for your continued partnership and support.”

Tracy Police Chief Sekou Millington added that the safety and privacy of the city’s students remain among the department’s top priorities.

“Our children deserve to feel safe at school and in every space where they should be able to learn, grow, and simply be kids,” Millington said.

“Protecting the safety, privacy, and well-being of our students is a responsibility we take seriously. We are grateful to the students who brought this incident to the attention of adults and to the officers and detectives who acted quickly to investigate.”

News Media reached out to Tracy High School for more information.

Zach Hickerson, the brother of Hayden Panettiere’s former boyfriend Brian Hickerson, has addressed his disorderly conduct arrest after a bar confrontation involving the siblings on Saturday.

After being taken into custody following an incident at a restaurant in Greenville, South Carolina, Zach told TMZ that what he described as widespread misunderstandings surrounding the actress’s death helped fuel the tense encounter.

An eyewitness said the brothers were taunted over Panettiere’s death before Zach’s arrest.

“This is the problem with y’all putting stuff on the Internet: People fill in their own holes and then they want to attack people for no reason,” Zach said after he was released from jail.

He said the ongoing speculation has been difficult for those involved, adding: “It’s just super-frustrating all that we’ve been through and all the rumors that get started and then people believe them, and then they attack as a result of the rumors.”

“That’s what pi**es me off,” Zach added, saying he intends to “eventually” address what he considers false claims connected to the case.

The Daily Mail has contacted Hickerson’s legal representatives for additional comment.

The confrontation reportedly unfolded at the Greenville restaurant, where the brothers appeared to argue with hecklers. Police ultimately put Brian in handcuffs and arrested Zach.

The brothers had been drinking at the Wild Wing Cafe, an eyewitness told TMZ Sunday, when other patrons on hand allegedly heckled the siblings over Panettiere’s August 16 death.

The eyewitness told the outlet that ‘about five middle-aged people’ had been at a nearby table, and women in the group had confronted the Hickerson brothers at their table numerous times.

It was not immediately clear if the women had been seeking to de-escalate the tense situation between the men at their table and the brothers, the eyewitness told the outlet.

The situation escalated when Zach confronted one of the male patrons at the table, the eyewitness said, and things appeared to get physical as the two were approaching the bar.

The one-time actor had been ‘drinking for hours’ with his brother Zach at a back table at the restaurant when he got up and went to the bar, according to the outlet.

At that point, the confrontation attracted the attention of others at the restaurant, with others physically getting involved, the eyewitness said, adding that a table had been knocked over and glasses had been tossed on the floor. 

A worker appeared to be standing in front of Brian during the conflict. Hickerson, who was wearing a green hoodie and light-colored jeans, had been talking to some people when things got heated and he was seen picking up a bar stool and flinging it backwards.

The video showed Hickerson being lifted up and carried out of the saloon by a man in a red baseball cap as a bartender shouted, ‘Let him go!’

Brian wound up handcuffed by police and was seen claiming they had leaked details about Panettiere’s death as he sat cuffed on the curb, according to footage obtained by TMZ.

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Brian and his brother were in conflict with some other people outside the restaurant when police arrived on the scene, an eyewitness told the outlet. He was seen in images sporting a facial cut following the conflict.

A source told TMZ that Hickerson was handcuffed by police and started shouting at them: ‘GPD leaked it when my girlfriend died,’ an obvious reference to Panettiere’s death.

Brian managed to avoid arrest and was released. However, Zach was reportedly heavily intoxicated and ‘yelling profanities,’ leading to his arrest in connection with disorderly conduct.

Brian and Zach were both present at the Greenville, South Carolina condo where Panettiere was pronounced dead at age 36.

According to the Greenville Police Department’s incident report, Zach told police that Brian was sleeping in a separate room of the Airbnb when he arrived and found the actress unresponsive in a chair.

Zach stated that Brian administered Narcan – a medication that reverses opioid overdoses – and that they performed CPR while communicating with 911 dispatchers.

Brian has since met with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) amid their investigation into the actress’ suspected overdose death, TMZ previously reported.

Local and federal investigators reportedly believe the actress was sold drugs that may have caused her death, and authorities are now focused on identifying the suspected dealer.

Panettiere’s toxicology reports and official cause of death have not yet been released. 

The Nashville star had a volatile and tumultuous on-and-off relationship with Hickerson beginning in 2018.

Brian Hickerson had been arrested and charged in connection with domestic abuse involving Panettiere multiple times.

In 2021, he pleaded no contest to two felony counts of injuring a spouse or girlfriend, resulting in jail time, probation, domestic violence classes, $500 in restitution, and a five-year protective order, per People.

Zach previously told TMZ: ‘There are a lot of assumptions, speculations and accusations currently swirling.

‘The truth will come out as the authorities complete and release additional details from the investigation. And that is important because the people who loved and adored Hayden deserve the truth.’

Zach described Panettiere as ‘one of the most precious individuals on this earth.’

He also argued that the star’s friends and family should be allowed to mourn her passing without any ‘additional noise.’

He added: ‘At this time, I want to clarify my involvement in effort to keep the focus on the fact that we lost one of the most precious individuals on this earth and to allow those that cared about her to mourn without additional noise, chaos, and misinformation being created and propagated by the media as well as the public.’

This week’s Lanterns delivers a major turning point, bringing one of HBO’s biggest ongoing mysteries to an explosive apparent conclusion. Since the series began, Hal Jordan (Kyle Chandler) and John Stewart (Aaron Pierre) have been unraveling the secrets surrounding Rushville. In Episode 5, William Macon (Garret Dillahunt) and his allies move decisively to defend their own — while one of the Lanterns appears to accomplish the unthinkable.

**Spoilers for Lanterns Episode 5, now streaming on HBO Max**

The finale of Lanterns Episode 5 sees John Stewart turn Hal Jordan into a distraction as he sets his sights on Manhunter Zoe (Poorna Jagannathan). John may have slept with Zoe twice and seemingly agreed to join her side in return for life-saving technology, but his loyalty to the mission remains intact. His objective is simple and brutal: eliminate the Manhunter. Using his elite marksmanship, John shoots Zoe before removing her heart as proof for the Guardians that the job is done.

When DECIDER spoke with the Lanterns cast last month, Jagannathan said she welcomed the possibility that viewers could have conflicted feelings over Zoe’s fate.

“I think it humanizes Manhunters,” Jagannathan said. “She is technically ‘the villain’, but then you get a glimpse of who she is and why she is who she is: a victim of the Guardians, and a victim of the programming that she comes from.”

“I thought that the role was written with a lot of compassion and it wasn’t a black and white [story],” she continued. “I do think at the end, her survival is tantamount to — she puts that above everything else — hence destruction ensues wherever she goes. Because she’s always under threat and she will always survive and has always survived until now.”

Still, the episode leaves room for questions. Is Zoe truly dead? Has the Manhunter threat actually been eliminated? And what does Zoe’s subtle, near-smile through John’s sniper scope mean? Here’s what to know about the shocking conclusion of Lanterns Episode 5.

Lanterns Episode 5 Ending Explained: Does Zoe Die?

For now, the answer appears to be yes: Zoe dies. John shoots and kills the Manhunter — the same man she had an affair with despite being married to William Macon.

“Shouldn’t have cheated on your husband,” Garret Dillahunt quipped when DECIDER asked about Zoe’s death. William Macon also dies in the episode, though only after making a selfless attempt to serve as a decoy for the wife he loves.

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DECIDER asked Jagannathan what Zoe is thinking when she realizes John is about to pull the trigger. The actor said the Manhunter had “never been outmaneuvered” before that devastating moment.

“She’s always been the smartest person in any situation,” Jagannathan said. “I don’t know if you picked up, but in the beginning of [Episode] 5, she makes a contract with [Kelly Macdonald’s character] Kerry. ‘If I do this for you, you’ll do this for me,’ and so she made that same contract with John. You know, ‘I can help you. I can heal you. I can save you. Do you want to heal?’ And he says, ‘Yes.’”

“So she’s made that contract and no one has ever broken that contract because life is so precious to everyone, right? When you give someone back their life, you’re so indebted. So to meet someone who has outmaneuvered her, it’s quite a moment.”

Does John Stewart Become the Green Lantern in Lanterns Episode 5?

Sort of? Like he gets the ring, but he takes it off before reciting the oath, thereby rejecting the Guardians’ offer.

After killing the Manhunter, John not only takes her heart, but he also yoinks Hal Jordan’s lantern ring. He then puts the ring on and Zoe’s crystalized heart into a bag and meets up with Laura Linney’s Guardian in town. She seems to think everything’s worked out, but John reveals that when he put on the ring, he didn’t feel pride or power; he felt empty.

“Hal betrayed everything to keep this ring. His code, the oath, even himself, and it broke him,” John says. “Probably doesn’t even remember why he wanted the damn thing.”

John then takes the ring off, saying, “And neither do I.”

That’s how Lanterns Episode 5 ends… and it potentially explains why John Stewart isn’t the Green Lantern assigned to protect Earth in the 2020s-set Peacemaker and Superman. That Green Lantern would be Guy Gardiner (Nathan Fillion).

A fatal shooting at a North Carolina family residence set off a frantic search for two suspects, culminating in an interstate manhunt and a second exchange of gunfire.

Gaston County Police were called to a home on Forbes Road around 8:43 a.m. Thursday after reports of shots fired inside the house.

When officers arrived, they found four people with gunshot wounds. Two victims died at the scene, while the other two were taken to CaroMont Regional Medical Center with life-threatening injuries.

Authorities identified those killed as 50-year-old Victoria “Heather” Moore and 38-year-old Megan “Josiah” Bumgardner. As of Friday, police said the two surviving victims remained in critical but stable condition.

Detectives named two people who lived at the home, 26-year-old Camryn Moore and 29-year-old Cory Armstrong, as suspects in the shooting. According to WSOC-TV, Heather Moore was Camryn Moore’s mother, while Bumgardner was her uncle.

Police said all of the people involved appeared to know each other. Investigators characterized the attack as isolated and said there was no ongoing danger to the broader Gaston County community.

Investigators have not said what led to the deadly violence.

Camryn Moore and Armstrong allegedly fled Gaston County immediately after the shooting. By Thursday afternoon, detectives had obtained warrants charging each of them with two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted first-degree murder.

The Gaston County Police Department enlisted the help of the U.S. Marshals Service Carolinas Regional Fugitive Task Force as investigators tracked the pair’s movements across multiple states overnight.

The search reached Ohio at approximately 8 a.m. Friday, when state troopers spotted the suspects’ vehicle outside Athens and attempted to pull it over, authorities said.

Moore and Armstrong allegedly refused to stop, setting off a multi-county pursuit.

The chase came to a violent end when their vehicle swerved to avoid spike strips deployed in the roadway and crashed, according to information provided to North Carolina investigators by Ohio authorities.

Officers then reported hearing two gunshots coming from the wrecked vehicle.

Law enforcement deployed a drone to look inside and discovered Moore and Armstrong dead. Authorities have not disclosed who fired the shots or officially announced the manner of their deaths.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating the pursuit, crash and deaths.

Back in Gastonia, neighbors were stunned by the violence that shattered their normally peaceful street.

Loretta Forbes, whose husband’s grandfather built her home in 1914 and gave Forbes Road its name, told WSOC-TV that she knew the family living next door.

“I just kept saying, ‘My God. Oh God,’ coming down the stairs,” Forbes told the outlet. “They seem to be very nice people. It just shakes you up to think that could happen so close by.”

Forbes said she was praying for the family and searching for answers.

“I want to know what’s happened,” she said. “I want to know about the family.”

Jennifer Greene, a friend and co-worker of Heather Moore, drove to the home after Moore unexpectedly failed to report for her shift.

“This was a tragic act of violence that resulted in the loss of multiple lives and left others critically injured,” the Gaston County Police Department said.

“Although the search for the suspects has ended, our investigation has not,” police added.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact Detective G. Lancaster at 704-866-3320 or CrimeStoppers at 704-861-8000.

News Media reached out to the Gaston County Police Department and Ohio State Highway Patrol for additional information.