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Two 14 year old students were arrested for threats on social media with a shooting at Bloomingdale High School in Hillsborough County (West Coast Florida), authorities said on

Two students arrested for threatening shooting on Snapchat: USA

Two 14 year old students were arrested for threats on social media with a shooting at Bloomingdale High School in Hillsborough County (West Coast Florida), authorities said on Tuesday.

Both teenagers, Alex Moraguez and Denis Herrera, reportedly used stock images various guns and weapons and uploaded them to the Snapchat platform, which they accompanied with phrases in which they claimed to possess weapons and threatened to kill everyone in the school.

“The messages were made between May 11 and May 13 and contained images of firearms with messages overlaid with threats of violence at Bloomingdale High School,” the Hillsborough Sheriff’s Office (HSCO) said in a statement.

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The HCSO School Threat Assessment Unit (STAR) traced the messages to Moraguez and Herrera, both 14 years old, who admitted to officers that they were the authors of the messages. threats to the designated high school.

Moraguez and Herrera don’t go to Bloomingdale High School. When interrogated by police officers, the minors stated that it was about “tell jokes‘ to appear ‘cheerful’.

However, the HCSO took the threats seriously and opened a criminal investigation in cooperation with the FBI.

According to Sheriff Chad Chronister, HCSO “takes all threats to our schools and community, regardless of intent, seriously” and “we will continue to investigate and prosecute those who make threats, whether they are a joke or not.”

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Both were arrested and taken to Youth Assessment Center charged with “a felony in the second degree for making a written or electronic threat to commit a mass shooting or an act of terrorism.”

His arrest “should serve warning for anyone who thinks they can make threats on social media without consequences,” added Sheriff Chronister.

Following the 2018 massacre of 17 by Cruz at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas School in Park areascosting the lives of 14 students and 3 staff, this state has seen numerous arrests for death threats and false threats of weapons in schools, the vast majority of which were committed by teenagers.

(EFE)

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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