An 11-Year-Old Florida Boy Is Arrested For Threatening To Kill Classmates During Facetime, Showed His Guns To Them

PORT ORANGE, Fla. — Several students were arrested across Central Florida school districts Monday, accused of making threats to conduct shootings.

In Volusia County, an 11-year-old boy was arrested and charged with threatening to open fire at a school following a Facetime call with his classmates.

Investigators were alerted to the potential threat on Sunday after receiving an anonymous tip that a group of students at Creekside Middle School “were going to shoot up the school,” according to an arrest affidavit.

The affidavit also revealed one of the witnesses told deputies that he had been part of a Facetime conversation with the 11-year-old and another student when the boy “showed the rest of the group a bunch of guns and knives.”

“He added that (the 11-year-old) had written down a list of names on a notepad and specifically told them that it was a list of people he wanted to kill,” the affidavit said.

Several other students told the same story about the list of names, the affidavit said.

When they responded to the boy’s home, investigators said they found what appeared to be the list mentioned by the other students, various airsoft-style rifles and pistols, and several knives and swords.

The 11-year-old admitted to showing his friends his collection of airsoft rifles and some of his knives, but he couldn’t remember if he told them that “the airsoft rifles were not real, functioning firearms,” the affidavit said.

Initially, investigators said the boy denied creating a list with other students’ names on it, but later admitted that there was a “hit list” that he wrote names on, but said it was a joke and “he had no intention of causing any of the listed individuals harm.”

While the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office released the 11-year-old’s name and photo, Spectrum News is not publically identifying him due to his age and because he is not being charged as an adult.