12-Year-Old Middle School Student Posts ‘Death List’ On Social Media, Arrested

A 12-year-old Florida middle school student was arrested Saturday evening for posting a “death list” on Snapchat with the names of her fellow students at the school on it.

The young suspect, a student at Falcon Cove Middle School in Weston, about 20 miles west of Fort Lauderdale, was charged with two counts of a written threat to kill and false reporting concerning a firearm.

A student and her parent informed the Broward County Sheriff's Office on Dec. 6 around 7 p.m. about the online threat. The suspect was said to have posted a second threat later that afternoon which read "students were not safe and that they would be killed on Monday, Dec. 9," the Broward Sheriff’s Office, said in a press release.

The girl was tracked down by detectives with the Threat Management Unit and Real-Time Crime Center and the threats were gauged as false. The girl confessed to have made those threats following which she was taken to a Juvenile Assessment Center after being arrested, ABC News reported.

Police have not revealed as to why she made those threats.

This incident is reminiscent of the August arrest of a 15-year-old girl in California who threatened a mass shooting at her high school in a Snapchat post. The Fresno Police Department was alerted by the FBI at 5 a.m. on Aug. 15 about the online threat. The post, which read "Don't come to school tomorrow," was tailored with a photo of a gun. Officers were able to find the girl at her home from where she posted the threat. FBI determined the potential shooting location as Edison High School.