{"id":142373,"date":"2026-02-03T20:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T20:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/142373\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T20:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T20:28:12","slug":"tallahassee-food-truck-owner-pleads-guilty-to-school-threat-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/142373\/","title":{"rendered":"Tallahassee food truck owner pleads guilty to school threat charges"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Tallahassee food truck impresario<\/a> and comfort food entrepreneur has pleaded guilty to federal charges that he threatened to “shoot up” two Tallahassee public schools.<\/a><\/p>\n

Demetrius Murray was named in a six-count indictment for “interstate communication of threats to injure children.”<\/p>\n

He is now scheduled for sentencing before Senior U.S. District Judge Robert L. Hinkle on April 16 and “faces a maximum of five years imprisonment on each threat count,” according to a news release<\/a> from U.S. Attorney Jack Heekin of the Northern District of Florida.<\/p>\n

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Previous coverage: Tallahassee food truck operator indicted federally over school threats<\/a><\/p>\n

According to previous reporting<\/a>, the indictment details the specific threats the 33-year-old is alleged to have said in a Nov. 14 argument on the phone with an out-of-state debt collection agency, including:<\/p>\n

“I’m headed up there right now to kill these kids at the middle school.”<\/p>\n

“I got a 9 millimeter gun in my hand and I’m going to this middle school and I’m about to shoot this middle school up right now.”<\/p>\n

“My gun is pointed at this little girl right now … blast this little girl head off, first white (expletive) out here …”<\/p>\n

The threats allegedly were directed at Kate Sullivan Elementary School and Cobb Middle School, next to each other on Miccosukee Road in central Tallahassee.<\/p>\n

\"Dee<\/p>\n

Dee Murray, owner of Comeback Tacos, shares how he came up with the concept for the food truck Wednesday, June 4, 2025.<\/p>\n

In 2020, Murray’s first business venture in Tallahassee,\u00a0Gurlie’s Lemonade<\/a>\u00a0with $3 lemonades and fried Oreos quickly became a raging sensation for Tallahassee foodies and was even spotlighted on the\u00a0Today Show.<\/a> He later pivoted to selling tacos at his Comeback Tacos food truck in Midtown.<\/p>\n

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This story contains previously published reporting. Jim Rosica\u00a0can be reached at\u00a0jrosica@tallahassee.com<\/a>\u00a0and follow him on Twitter\/X:\u00a0@<\/a>JimRosicaFL<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Tallahassee Democrat: Tallahassee food truck owner pleads guilty to school threats<\/a><\/p>\n