Overview
- The 10-year-old Pride Elementary student allegedly wrote on a whiteboard that he would bring a gun to school and left a desk note titled “list of people who I’m gunna kill,” deputies said.
- Officials said the child is in custody on a felony charge of making a written threat to kill, told deputies he did not mean it, and had parents who reported he has no access to firearms.
- The sheriff’s office released video showing the 10-year-old in handcuffs being escorted from a patrol car and into a holding cell.
- In a separate case, an 11-year-old was arrested again after allegedly using another student’s account to send “imma shoot you” to seven teachers, despite being in a diversion program from an October arrest.
- Sheriff Mike Chitwood said such threats disrupt schools and warranted public “perp walks,” while coverage noted Florida law permits releasing identifying information in juvenile felony cases.