ORLANDO, Fla. — Two students, who posted a video posing with a gun in their school’s bathroom on Monday, were ordered detained, a judge said.
Ricardo Arevalo, 15, and Jeuriel Acevedo, 17, are expected to face a judge Wednesday after deputies saidthey posted a video on Snapchat in a Cypress Creek High School bathroom, holding a handgun and pointing it at the camera.
A second image showed the magazine and bullets, authorities said.
Both teens were charged with possession of a firearm on school property and possession of a firearm by a minor, according to the press release. %
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The state can only hold the juveniles for 21 days. A pretrial hearing is set for April 6 and the trial is scheduled to begin on April 11.
An attorney told Channel 9 the teens will likely not be charged in adult court, but as juveniles. The charge is the same, but the outcome will be different. If charged as an adult, the teens would face prison time, but as a juvenile, they'll likely be sentenced to a treatment program.
The Sheriff's Office said waving a gun around in school is considered a threat and officials want to send a clear message that it won't be tolerated.
"We don't even know the accuracy of this video. All they have right now is a video on Snapchat and we don't have full discovery. No one was put in danger or anything like that," Amanda Sampaio, Arevalo's attorney, said.
A concerned student alerted their parent about the video when they got home from school and the parent contacted the Sheriff’s Office after watching the video, according to deputies.
"It wasn't until after school when the students were able to see this very disturbing video (and) one student was brave enough to contact their parent and the parent contacted us," Jane Watrel, of the Orange County Sheriff's Office, said.
School officials said there was no threat to any individual, but some parents and siblings of students at the school who spoke with Channel 9 were shaken up.
"It could've started a shooting and she could've gotten hurt or something or probably get a little more dangerous," Erik Sanchez, a sibling of a student at the school, said.
Deputies said they worked with school resource officers and administrators to identify the two students.
Both were arrested at their residences and the gun from the video was found in a false bottom of Acevedo's backpack, deputies said.
Authorities said it's unclear why the students brought the gun into school.
"Look at all those video games. Everything they show. Everything that they show is just violence. This is not going to stop until something serious is done," parent Richard Garzon said.
Arevalo's attorney said she isn't sure how the teens knew each other and don't know where the gun came from. Deputies said they're working to find out who owns the gun and how the teens got it.
Threats of violence on social media shut down the school in November. Officials said that was also reported by a parent.