VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. — A 13-year-old DeBary boy was arrested Monday after deputies say he made threats on social media to carry out a shooting at his school.
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According to the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office, the seventh-grader at Trinity Christian Academy in Deltona posted a picture of himself online pointing a gun at a student’s head.
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Deputies say the teen added messages with “specific” threats to shoot three classmates saying, “I got 32 rounds for u,” and “I got a hollow point wit ur name on it.”
According to witnesses, during the video chat, the boy threatened to shoot up his school, held a gun to another student’s head, and shared a picture of himself holding a pistol while sitting in the driver’s seat of a car.
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Deputies say the teen’s parents declined to allow a search of the home during their follow-up investigation. Instead, they got a warrant to search the home which yielded several guns and rounds of ammunition that were ultimately seized.
The arsenal included two handguns found in the family’s garage, as well as a rifle and shotgun found in the trunk of a car. Investigators also found a six-round magazine in the teen’s bedroom dresser, and ammunition in an office cabinet that appeared to have been pried open.
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The teen was arrested Monday and charged with three counts of making written threats to kill or conduct a mass shooting, and one charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
He was taken to the Volusia Family Resource Center before being moved to the Department of Juvenile Justice.
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