DELAND, Fla. -- A middle school boy plotted to lock his classmates in a room and shoot them all in a mass murder, but Friday that 14-year-old boy learned he won't spend a day behind bars.

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Austin Mohr was one of three kids accused in March of planning a massacre at DeLand Middle School. He was originally charged with conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to discharge firearm on school property, crimes that could have sent him to prison.

Friday, though, Mohr made a deal and pled no contest to a charge of attempted threat to discharge a destructive device on school property, a third-degree felony. In return, Judge Hubert Grimes withheld adjudication and put him on probation, possibly until he's 19. The judge could end Mohr's probation at any time, but state attorneys defended any suggestion that the boy was getting off easy.

"That's not true, he is on probation for the next five years," explained Asst. State Attorney Amy Walker. "The court, as the judge said, he will have jurisdiction over this young man until he's 19 years old. That's the maximum allowable time a judge would have in any criminal case involving a juvenile."

Mohr had to give up samples of DNA in the courtroom and had to be fingerprinted, but he avoided the outcome he told Eyewitness News after court that he was most afraid of.

"I am lucky that I'm not an older age or I would be in prison for five years," he said.

Mohr, who was 13 at the time of his arrest, is accused of threatening to attack his middle school. Investigators said he made threats including, "I will kill every person I see. The massacre will happen soon." Investigators said he filled a MySpace page with mentions of the Columbine Massacre and attempted to get a gun.

"Threatening to kill other people and threatening to do very bad things to them is not the way to go. Talk to somebody, talk to your parents, talk to somebody you trust, but just don't try to take it into your own hands," Mohr said during his first public interview at the end of April.

As part of Friday's plea deal, Mohr will continue getting counseling, has a 7:00pm curfew, can have no unsupervised computer use, can't return to DeLand Middle School and has to write an essay on why violence doesn't solve problems. The school and the school district were reportedly okay with the plea deal.

Mohr's attorney said he believes in a year the probation period could be dropped.

"Thankful that calmer minds and reasonable people were able to resolve this case," attorney Dave Damore.

As part of the deal, Mohr also can't have any contact with his friends Tyler Christian and Charlene Russell, who are also charged in the case. Russell is still in full-time behavioral treatment. Christian is in treatment only during the day and is allowed to go home to his parents at night. Their cases are still pending.