{"id":260313,"date":"2026-05-06T08:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T08:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/260313\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T08:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T08:04:07","slug":"florida-12-year-old-accused-of-threatening-teacher-saying-she-will-shoot-up-school-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/260313\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida 12-year-old accused of threatening teacher, saying she will &#8216;shoot up&#8217; school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 12-year-old Florida girl is facing\u00a0felony charges\u00a0after authorities claim she used a classmate\u2019s account to send a chilling threat to \u201cshoot up\u201d her elementary school.<\/p>\n<p>The girl is charged with making written or electronic threats to kill and unlawful use of a two-way communications device, both felonies, according to the\u00a0Volusia Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, detectives received a report about an explicit written threat sent to a teacher at\u00a0Louise S. McInnis Elementary School.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to threatening the teacher, the sender said they were going to \u201cshoot up\u201d the school\u00a0on the last day of class, according to the sheriff\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>While the message was sent from a student account belonging to a 12-year-old boy, detectives determined it was sent by his ex-girlfriend, who had his login information, officials said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.57421875;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39294160\" width=\"339\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/florida-12-year-old-accused-127104141.jpg\" alt=\"A 12-year-old girl is charged with two felonies after allegedly threatening to commit a school shooting\" class=\"wp-image-39294160\"  \/>A 12-year-old girl is charged with two felonies after allegedly threatening to commit a school shooting. Volusia Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.57421875;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39294159\" width=\"339\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/florida-12-year-old-accused-127104138.jpg\" alt=\"The girl is charged with making written or electronic threats to kill and unlawful use of a two-way communications device, both felonies,\" class=\"wp-image-39294159\"  \/>The girl is charged with making written or electronic threats to kill and unlawful use of a two-way communications device, both felonies. Volusia Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff\u2019s office posted a video of the arrest on\u00a0Facebook, garnering more than one million views.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, deputies could be seen leading the handcuffed, green-haired tween with a septum piercing from a patrol car to the jail.<\/p>\n<p>She was then shackled and escorted into a jail cell, where she was left sitting on a bench.<\/p>\n<p>The elementary school did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 12-year-old Florida girl is facing\u00a0felony charges\u00a0after authorities claim she used a classmate\u2019s account to send a chilling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4864,265,28,30,29,66460,24738,4278],"class_list":["post-260313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-arrests","tag-crime","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-mass-shootings","tag-school-shootings","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260313","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=260313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}