A 15-year-old teen was arrested in Florida after the police said he made an online threat to shoot up the premises.

Adam Guzetti attends Seabreeze high school in Daytona Beach. He posted a comment on a video game chat platform under a fake name promising to bring his father’s assault rifle to school and kill at least seven people.

The principal of the school was not immediately available for comment on the matter. Even though the comment was given under a fake name and profile, it was forwarded to the federal authorities, and they contacted the county sheriff’s office. Guzetti had admitted to posting the comment though he insisted it was a joke.

Of course, the authorities were not amused by the implication. The sheriff’s office issued a statement saying, ‘joke or not, these types of comments are felonies under the law’. Considering Florida has been a victim of mass shootings in the past year, the teen was preaching to the wrong audience.

Body camera footage released from the sheriff’s office illustrates the moment the deputies arrived at Adam’s home on Friday morning to handcuff and take him into custody.

His mother could be heard telling the deputies that she owned a gun and understood threats like those could not be taken lightly in this day and age. She then appealed to them, saying he was just a child. She also categorically stated that her son did not have access to her gun.

One of the officers replied asking they know or not if he is not going to be the mass shooting headline after quoting Sandy Hook and Parkland.

Guzetti told investigators on the matter he was posting using the profile FalconWarrio920 and created the persona Dalton Barnhart by using a mixture of people he knew.

The teen's arrest comes in the wake of several roundups in the last week on charges of threatening mass shootings in the states of Florida, Ohio, and Connecticut. This is just a few weeks after the country saw a few devastating massacres which left almost 30 dead within 24 hours.

Tristan Scott was taken into custody outside a supermarket in Daytona after giving mass shooting threats and other threatening texts to his ex-girlfriend. Brandon Wagshol, from Connecticut, was also arrested after a posting on Facebook claiming he wanted to commit a mass shooting.

The present mass shooting hysteria has made authorities extremely vigilant to potential threats, and that places Adam in a precarious situation.

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