Florida 7th Grader Arrested Over Snapchat Threats To Shoot Classmates

A 13-year-old middle school student in Deltona, Florida, was arrested for threatening to shoot three of his classmates on social media.

The Volusia County Sheriff's Office said the social media threat accompanied a picture of himself pointing a gun at a student's head. Deputies detained the child Monday after the headmaster made a non-emergency call upon seeing the post in question, WESH-TV reported.

"I have a situation on social media thing where someone just made a threat. He sent it Saturday actually, but he's not [at] school today and it involves a gun and he also has a picture of a gun. I don't have any proof that he said he was going to come to school but -- did say he said he was going to come to school," Pastor Jamie Jones, Trinity Christian Academy headmaster, told the outlet. "We are very thankful this was revealed the way that it was so that we are not now reporting on some sort of tragedy."

Deputies said the threats made on Snapchat to the students specified that he had "32 rounds for u" and "I got a hollow point wit ur name on it [sic]," according to Click Orlando.

The sheriff's office said the video that came along with the post showed the child holding one student at gunpoint, and in a photo, he held a black pistol while sitting inside a car.

Cops executed a search warrant at the teen's home and found a 6-round magazine in his bedroom dresser drawer, officials told Click Orlando.

Further search efforts throughout the boy's home in DeBary yielded several guns and rounds of ammunition, some of which were found in the trunk of a car after a cabinet was pried open, WESH reported.

The 13-year-old is facing charges of making written threats to kill or conduct a mass shooting and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

In June, a teen boy in Texas was arrested for issuing threatening messages on Snapchat against five students from Uvalde High School. The suspect, identified as Luis Ortiz Jr., allegedly said he would "end" their lives and accompanied the post with a photo of himself holding what appeared to be a handgun. After his arrest, the suspect told the cops he had mental health troubles and was receiving counseling from school. Deputies said the teen might have felt alienated from his family and friends due to his condition which led to him posting the threat.