UMATILLA, Florida—A 13-year-old girl was arrested Wednesday just four days before her 14th birthday for threatening a school shooting on Snapchat in apparent retaliation for getting in trouble for selling nicotine for vapes.
The post stated, “Am shooting up umatilla (sic) middle scholl (sic) today bc all yopu (sic) 6, 7, and 8th graders are fake as (expletive) y’all (expletive) got me expelled for selling nic- – y’all (expletive)are going to pay on god.”
Thea Stiles was interviewed at Umatilla Middle School and admitted to making the threat and said she made the post on the bus because she was upset.
Stiles, a resident of a group home, according to her arrest affidavit, was arrested by a Lake County Sheriff’s Office school resource deputy for written threats to do violence.
The Sheriff’s Office and Lake County Schools maintain a zero tolerance for such threats. Just three days ago LCSO Sheriff Peyton Grinnell and LCS Superintendent Diane Kornegay released a video warning of the consequences of making threats to do violence, LCSO Lt. John Herrell said in a press release.
