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Volusia Deputies Arrest 10-Year-Old Over Classroom Kill List and Gun Threat

Sheriff Mike Chitwood urges parents to teach consequences early.

Overview

  • The student allegedly wrote on a Pride Elementary whiteboard that he would bring a gun to school, according to the sheriff's office.
  • Deputies say a note found in a desk described a list of classmates the child said he would kill.
  • The child was taken into custody on a felony count of making a written threat to kill and told deputies he did not mean it.
  • Officials notified the parents of the students named, and the child's parents told investigators he has no access to firearms.
  • The sheriff's office also posted video of the handcuffed child in custody, and the case follows a February arrest of a 12-year-old in a separate school-threat investigation.