Teens accused of threatening to shoot up FL high school

MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. (WPTV) — Two teens were arrested aboriginal Thursday greeting aft posting a menace connected societal media to "shoot up" Martin County High School successful confederate Florida, authorities said.

According to an apprehension report, respective students successful a Snapchat radical saw the station precocious Wednesday night. It reportedly showed a young antheral holding a handgun, on with the caption, "[expletive] region I'm gonna sprout up the school."

Those students notified their parents, who past called 911.

Around 3 a.m. Thursday, deputies took 2 teens, ages 17 and 13, into custody. Authorities said the older teen is the 1 who posed with the weapon.

Martin County Chief Deputy John Budensiek said the 13-year-old admitted to investigators the weapon was his. When authorities went to his home, they recovered a loaded achromatic Beretta 92x 9mm handgun hidden down a dresser successful his bedroom.

Budensiek said the limb had been stolen during an unrelated burglary.

"They not lone made the threat, but they had the evident quality to transportation retired that menace if they truthful desired to," Budensiek said.

According to an apprehension report, the 17-year-old told detectives "he took pictures of the weapon connected Snapchat due to the fact that helium thought it was 'cool'" and admitted it was "just a prank."

The teen said helium posted the photograph without the caption to "shoot up" Martin County High School, and the 13-year-old aboriginal added the menace in. The 13-year-old, however, said helium "never posted immoderate statements connected Snapchat," the apprehension study stated.

Budensiek said neither teen attends Martin County High School.

"The 13-year-old fishy appears to person had an contented with idiosyncratic oregon thing going connected astatine Martin County High School," Budensiek said. "We person not vetted retired yet precisely what the contented was oregon who the idiosyncratic was successful the school."

The 13-year-old — who authorities said has a transgression inheritance — is nether apprehension for a misdemeanor of possession of a firearm by a insignificant and has been released to his guardian. The 17-year-old is facing a felony complaint of making written physics threats to termination and is presently successful the custody of the Department of Juvenile Justice successful Fort Pierce.

Budensiek praised the students who noticed the troubling station and notified their parents.

"Those children connected Snapchat and connected societal media each day, each day, they spot things that we don't adjacent person the quality to see," Budensiek said. "Those teenagers coming guardant could've perchance saved a disaster."

This communicative was primitively reported by Matt Papaycik , Scott Sutton connected WPTV.com.