A Miami-Dade girl faces 10 felony counts after a post threatened school violence
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A 13-year-old Miami-Dade County student was arrested Thursday and charged with 10 counts of written threat to kill/do bodily harm, a school district spokesman confirmed.
That’s one felony count per school mentioned in a Wednesday night Instagram post obtained by several media outlets.
The schools mentioned were Broward County Public Schools’ Miramar High, and Miami-Dade’s Brownsville Middle School, Carol City Middle School, Horace Mann Middle School, Madison Middle School, Miami Carol City Senior High School, Miami Central Senior High School, Norland Middle School, North Dade Middle School; and North Miami Senior High School.
The post from the account kill_yokidsssss read, “IF YOU DON’T WANNA LOSE YOUR CHILD DON’T SENT THEM TO SCHOOL TMR & FRIDAY...”
The post had been removed by Thursday afternoon..
A threat posted to Snapchat led to the arrest of a Pompano Beach Middle School boy on Wednesday. Pembroke Pines police have made arrests for social media posts promising mass school violence. Invariably, the kids arrested tell police they were just joking.
Though there have been other school shootings around the nation, most recently Nov. 30 in Michigan, it’s the mass murder at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High on Feb. 14, 2018, that keeps law enforcement from taking each threat as anything but a serious warning.
“We’re not in the business of identifying humor,” Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony told the Miami Herald Wednesday. “We’re not in the business of taking things lightly, especially understanding what this community has been through back in 2018, losing 17 individuals, again the worst school shooting in American history. We can’t afford to look at these kinds of things as a joke.”
This story was originally published December 16, 2021 at 2:30 PM.
