A 15-year-old Oakleaf High School girl was arrested early Friday for making threats against her school, one day after Clay County’s sheriff detailed the increase in false threats in the wake of the February 14 South Florida school shooting that killed 17.
The Orange Park freshman was charged with false reporting of firearms in a violent manner, interfering with school functions and written threats to kill or do injury after social media threats said a cousin was “planning on shooting” the school on Plantation Oaks Boulevard, according to her arrest report, according to our Florida Times-Union news partner.
The Times-Union and WJCT News are not naming the student because of her age.
The writer said her cousin has a “bad disorder” and was planning a shooting at Oakleaf because “he saw the other shootings and plus the students there don’t talk to him,” the report said.
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“He has 0 friends,” the message read. “Student and Teachers please Stay home and Stay safe Thursday. ... Y’all this is no joke.”
As a result of that and a second social media posting and text messages sent to multiple people, 40 percent of the school’s students were absent Thursday, the report said.
Deputies tracked down the girl and interviewed her and her grandmothers, then arrested her, the report said.
Clay County public schools received 11 threats since the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Sheriff Darryl Daniels said Thursday. He said that post-Parkland level of threats was high compared to four for the last school year, and that anyone caught making a threat against a school would face prosecution.