A social media video appeared to reveal this week that St. Augustine High School football coach Nathaniel Jones led a chant that included a racial slur in the locker room before a football game Friday night.

St. Augustine, an all-boys, historically black Catholic school in New Orleans, fired Jones, who is also black, on Tuesday.

“We are shocked and embarrassed that such blatantly offensive language would be used at any school event and directed toward our student-athletes and opponents,” St. Augustine president Kenneth St. Charles wrote in a statement. “The words and actions of the coach and the players following his lead do not represent the values that St. Augustine has embodied for more than six decades.”

The chant Jones led reportedly had repeated uses of the N-word. The student-athletes were encouraged to “repeat the offensive and racist term” in the locker room.

The school became aware of the vile pregame ritual after a video of the St. Augustine players chanting hit social media over the weekend. At that point, St. Augustine High School immediately began an investigation.

Assistant head coach and defensive coordinator Kenneth Dorsey Jr. has been named interim head coach.