{"id":14815,"date":"2025-10-21T23:57:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T23:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/14815\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T23:57:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T23:57:15","slug":"15-year-old-arrested-accused-of-threatening-mass-shooting-at-central-florida-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/14815\/","title":{"rendered":"15-year-old arrested, accused of threatening mass shooting at Central Florida school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Palm Bay Police Department says a 15-year-old student was arrested Tuesday over an alleged school threat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers said the Melbourne Police Department alerted them that a student who lives in Palm Bay threatened mass violence against Central Middle School in West Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Detectives say the student admitted making the statement and was taken into custody on a charge of making written threats to conduct a mass shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He was taken to the Brevard County Juvenile Detention Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"108\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beda08358d6db9816e7b0d066edd22cf.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Palm Bay Police Department says a 15-year-old student was arrested Tuesday over an alleged school threat. Officers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12807,12805,28,30,29,12806,9036,9038],"class_list":["post-14815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-alleged-school-threat","tag-central-middle-school","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-melbourne-police-department","tag-palm-bay","tag-west-melbourne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}