Updated: 10:15 a.m. Friday, Sept. 14, 2007 | Posted: 4:31 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13, 2007
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. —
"The note said 'I have a gun and first I'm going to shoot you in the shoulder,'" said Cindy Landfair, mother of the girl who was threatened.
From one nine-year-old girl to another, the note continued.
"...then you're going to shoot me back with a bazooka, but you're gonna miss..."
Cindy Landfair said a note to her daughter from a classmate at Southwood Elementary School went too far.
"...and then I'm going to shoot you back and kill you..." the note continued.
"I was shocked. I was terrified," Landfair said.
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The girl's mother said it all started over snacks. Her daughter traded her 'zebra cakes' for a bag of chips. But when the other girl wanted both for herself, the mother said that's when she wrote the threatening note.
It happened during an after school program run by the YMCA. They suspended the girl who wrote the note, but Landfair said school officials won't tell her whether they've done the same and will only say they're handling the matter internally.
"I don't know anything at this point. The school is basically leaving me in the dark," Landfair added.
Landfair, whose daughter has a different last name, said she may pull her kids out of the school even though authorities couldn't find a gun and don't believe there was a crime committed.
When asked if she thought she was being an over protective mother, Cindy Landfair responded.
"Yes, I do, but I only have one daughter and she's not replaceable" she said.
School district administrators contacted the sheriff's office. The district said it's considering how the girl who wrote the note should be disciplined.