{"id":53417,"date":"2025-11-20T00:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T00:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/53417\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T00:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T00:22:07","slug":"man-accused-of-leon-co-school-shooting-threat-says-he-did-it-to-evade-debt-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/53417\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of Leon Co. school shooting threat says he did it to evade debt collection"},"content":{"rendered":"

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) – New details have emerged regarding a school shooting threat in Leon County that led to three local schools being put on closed school protocol last week<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Demetrius Murray, 33, was arrested in Gadsden County<\/a> just hours after the alleged threat and was charged with written or electronic threats to kill, do bodily injury or conduct a mass shooting or act of terrorism. Murray has since been moved to Leon County Jail.<\/p>\n

\"NewNew details have emerged regarding a school shooting threat in Leon County that led to three local schools being put on closed school protocol last week.(Must credit Leon County Jail)<\/p>\n

According to a probable cause affidavit, Murray told investigators that a debt collection firm was trying to collect from him because he defaulted on a business loan. Records reveal that Murray then went to Kate Sullivan Elementary and Cobb Middle School, which are next to each other, and made a video across the street with a gun.<\/p>\n

The court records wrote what Murray said in the video. \u201dKill these kids in the name of [the debt collection firm]… I got a 9mm gun in my hand. I\u2019m going to this middle school and I\u2019m about to shoot this middle school up right now.”<\/p>\n

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Per court documents, Murray was not at the school when law enforcement caught up with him and was instead at a Dollar General on Highway 90 in Gretna.<\/p>\n

The accused man also told investigators that the threat \u201cwas a way to get [the debt collection firm] to leave him alone.\u201d<\/p>\n

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