HERNANDO COUNTY, Fla. – A teen in Delaware has been charged after making a threat to shoot up a school in Hernando County, Florida.
The student said at 8:48 p.m. and then again at 8:49 p.m., he received two phone calls on his cell phone from an unknown caller who stated, “Don’t come to school tomorrow because I’m going to shoot it up.”
Members of the Crime Analysis Unit (CAU) began working to determine where the phone call originated from and who possibly made the calls.
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Members of the CAU identified the telephone number belonging to a person living in Delaware.
Deputies proceeded to make contact with officials at the Smyrna Police Department in Delaware. Police department officials immediately sent officers to the address associated with the cell phone number.
Officers eventually made contact with a 14-year-old male who admitted to making the two phone threats.
The suspect said he was given the telephone number by an online gaming friend who attends Hernando High School. The suspect advised officers the phone calls were meant as a prank.
The suspect, not being identified because he is a juvenile, was arrested by the Smyrna Police Department on a charge of Making a Terroristic Threat.
Deputies in Hernando County were able to use the information provided by the suspect to locate the suspect’s friend, a 16-year-old Hernando High School student.
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The student said he gave the suspect his friend’s cell phone number to call in as a prank.
The student said the suspect planned to use a voice-changing app to sound like a female and make lewd comments to his friend, and he was unaware the suspect made a threat to “shoot up” the school. This student will not be charged in connection with the investigation.
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