A 13-year-old Deltona Middle School student was arrested on Sept. 15 for sending a video of himself with a gun to fellow students with lyrics of a song talking about death, the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said.
The 13-year-old boy is the third student to be arrested and perp-walked for making a school threat in a three-day period by the sheriff’s office.
The arrest on Sept. 15 came after deputies were alerted that the 13-year-old shot a video of himself loading and handling a gun, then sent it to other students at Deltona Middle School. The video was accompanied by rap lyrics about taking a life, deputies said.
The video caused students to stay home from school out of fear, according to a sheriff’s office Facebook post.
Deputies also provided the boy’s mother with multiple firearm locks and ensured all her firearms were properly secured, the sheriff’s office said
On Sept. 12, the sheriff’s office announced it arrested two students for making threats to their schools.
A 15-year-old Deltona High School student wrote a threat on his school laptop that he would bring a gun to school and shoot another student, triggering a Gaggle alert, deputies said.
Gaggle is a student safety software enabling K-12 schools to monitor student activity on school-provided devices for concerning content.
A school resource deputy detained the 15-year-old before he got on the bus to go home. He admitted he typed the threat, didn’t mean it, and was just angry about being picked on, the sheriff’s office said.
Also arrested on Sept. 12 was a 13-year-old River Springs Middle School. Deputies said he drew an AR-15 style rifle on his desk with the words “(expletive) my school” and a date and time. The 13-year-old said he was bullied at school and was handling the situation on his own, the sheriff’s office said.
This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Deltona Middle School student arrested, sent video of himself loading gun to students
Reporting by Patricio G. Balona, Daytona Beach News-Journal / The Daytona Beach News-Journal
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