EUSTIS, Florida—A 12-year-old boy was arrested Monday night after a mom alerted her child’s principal to group text messages between several Faith Lutheran School students that included a student threatening to shoot some of his classmates.
Inside Lake is not naming the boy due to his age.
Eustis Police Department responded to Faith Lutheran School, 2727 South Grove Street after the principal reported he had received an email from a parent of a student at the school. The principal said the parent stated she had received text messages on her child’s phone that contained threats to “shoot up the school,” the arrest affidavit states.
The parent sent screenshots of the text messages between several students that contained the threat and children that were named as possible targets. EPD contacted the mother of the boy who made the threat and met with her and the boy at the police department. Officers questioned the boy and he said he was “just joking around,” and he and his mother both said he did not have access to guns or other weapons, according to the affidavit.
The boy was arrested for written threats of a mass shooting and turned over to the Department of Juvenile Justice.
