15-Year-old student arrested after making threat to shoot up High School

A 15-year-old student was arrested in Daytona after making online threat to shoot up his school.

• The Seabreeze High School student in Daytona Beach, allegedly posted a comment on a video game chat.

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• In that comment, he vowed to kill seven people “at a minimum,” according to a statement from the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office.

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• FBI special agents arrived at the teenager’s house in Holly Hill last Friday

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• The teenager’s mother confirmed there was an “old gun” in their residence but said her son did not have access to it.

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• “Joke or not, these types of comments are felonies under the law,” the sheriff’s office said in a statement Monday. “After the mass violence we’ve seen in Florida and across the country, law enforcement officers have a responsibility to investigate and charge those who choose to make these types of threatening statements.”

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