10-year-old boy arrested for SnapChat threat to 'shoot up' high school, sheriff's office says



A 10-year-old Florida boy was arrested for a SnapChat threat to "shoot up" a high school, the Wakulla County Sheriff’s Office said.

A Wakulla High School student on Wednesday reported to school staff that he was in a SnapChat conversation with an unidentified person who stated he was going to "shoot up your school" and "It’s y'alls last day," officials said.

The school resource officer also on Thursday obtained an arrest warrant charging the juvenile with violation of Florida Statute 836: making a written or electronic threat to kill, do bodily injury, or conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism, officials said.

Wakulla High School is in Crawfordville, which is just over a half hour southwest of Tallahassee on the Florida panhandle.

With that, school staff around 4 p.m. told the school's resource officer about the threatening social media post, officials said, and the resource officer initiated a criminal investigation.

The Wakulla County Sheriff’s Office said it asked for assistance from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, and its Cyber Crime Unit, Counter Terrorism Unit, and Organized Crime Unit joined the investigation.

The agencies worked throughout Wednesday afternoon and evening and into Thursday's early morning hours to identify the source and location of the threat, officials said.

Florida Department of Law Enforcement agents and a school resource officer early Thursday morning "made contact with the subject who made the online threat at his residence" in Woodville in Leon County and interviewed him, officials said. Woodville is located approximately halfway between Crawfordville and Tallahassee.

The Wakulla County Sheriff’s Office said it told Wakulla County school officials that same morning that there was no imminent threat to the high school or any other district school and that the juvenile who had made the threat had been identified and would be charged.

The school resource officer also on Thursday obtained an arrest warrant charging the juvenile with violation of Florida Statute 836: making a written or electronic threat to kill, do bodily injury, or conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism, officials said.

That same day, the juvenile’s father turned him in, and the juvenile was taken into custody by authority of the arrest warrant, officials said.

Anything else?

Similar threats from juveniles have prompted another Florida sheriff to begin shaming the suspects on social media, NewsNation said.

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Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood said he’s tired of the hoaxes targeting students, disrupting schools and sapping law enforcement resources. In social media posts, Chitwood has warned parents that if their kids are arrested for making threats, he’ll make sure the public knows.

Chitwood recently posted the full name and mug shot of an 11-year-old boy who allegedly threatened to carry out a school shooting. While many praised Chitwood online, the sheriff’s tactics sparked criticism from some who say the weight of the responsibility should fall on the boy’s parents.

Under Florida law, juvenile court records are generally exempt from public release — but not if the child is charged with a felony, as in this case.

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Police arrest California veteran accused of plotting 'Las Vegas style' mass shooting



A 37-year-old California man was arrested Sunday on suspicion of planning to commit a "Las Vegas style" mass shooting, police said.

The Chico Police Department said that Dallas Marsh was taken into custody after detectives obtained evidence that he was making criminal threats to kill specific individuals, law enforcement officers, and others in a mass shooting. Police said that Marsh had a "specified deadline" to carry out this alleged shooting plot.

A SWAT team located and arrested Marsh near the Super 8 Motel in Chico on Sunday morning, according to a police statement. Following his arrest, Marsh allegedly made threats to kill additional officers and their families and battered an officer with a table during an interview while in custody.

Marsh has been charged with making criminal threats of death/great bodily injury, as well as battery on a peace officer and threats of violence against peace officers.

Authorities did not say when Marsh intended to carry out this alleged mass shooting, but Oct. 1 will be the fifth anniversary of the Las Vegas massacre. The Las Vegas shooting was the deadliest mass shooting event committed by an individual in United States history.

An FBI investigation failed to determine the motivations of the Las Vegas shooter, who set up a sniper nest on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel, from which he opened fire on the Route 91 Harvest musical festival on the Vegas Strip. The gunman shot and killed 60 people and injured more than 500 others before dying by self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Police did not identify a motive behind Marsh's alleged shooting plot. The New York Post reports that photos on a Facebook account appearing to belong to Marsh indicate he is an Army veteran. In his "intro" section, Marsh wrote that he previously served as a U.S. Army Delta Force commander.

Some people have begun leaving nasty comments on the account calling Marsh a "terrorist" and wishing him dead. One user who said he "served in Iraq with Marsh" called him a "really good dude" and the "kinda person you could count on" in rebuke of those leaving negative comments.

"This is not who Marsh is none of you know what’s going on and quick to name call and judge at the end of the day hopefully he gets the help he needs to be the real person he is. Combat related PTSD and the failed mental health care this country provided veterans is a big problem," the user wrote.

"Until you all go through war then battle demons from those events by yourselves maybe take a look at what drove a person to fall this hard," he wrote.

Texas police arrest man, 19, who wanted to shoot up Amazon facility and considered Uvalde shooter 'an idol'



Texas police on Monday arrested a 19-year-old man who allegedly was inspired by the massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and threatened to commit a mass shooting at an Amazon warehouse in San Antonio.

The suspect, Rondolfo Valdivia Aceves, was arrested "without incident" and has been charged with making terrorist threats, police told Yahoo News.

“Based on information gathered, an employee of the location heard the suspect claiming he was going to do a mass shooting at this place of business,” an incident report obtained by Yahoo News said. "Credible information to support the threat was developed during the investigation by Homicide detectives."

Aceves was employed as a subcontractor at an Amazon Delivery Station in San Antonio.

A female coworker reported him to police after he allegedly made disturbing remarks to her, local news station KSAT-TV reported. She told police that on Friday, a fire alarm was activated at the Amazon facility and all the employees evacuated the building.

Aceves allegedly told her it would be a good idea to use the fire alarm to have employees exit the building together and become easy targets in a mass shooting. He then allegedly said that he was going to commit a mass shooting.

Fearing for her safety, the coworker did not mention the threat to anyone on Friday. But on Monday, she decided to inform management at the Amazon facility because she thought Aceves was capable of carrying out the threat. The woman said that Aceves previously told her he was "tired of living" and that he owns a handgun and had purchased a rifle recently.

She told police that Aceves considered the Uvalde school shooter "an idol." That 18-year-old gunman murdered 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School last month.

She also said that after Aceves learned where her children go to school, he said, "he would now know what school to go to and shoot up."

Police investigators questioned Aceves' father, who told them his son has a history of mental illness and had twice been placed in a mental health facility at age 16.

The father said Aceves had stopped taking his medication years ago and that family members grew concerned when they learned he had purchased a gun.

The new federal gun control law signed by President Joe Biden on Saturday strengthens background checks for gun purchases to include juvenile and mental health records for people under age 21. The law also provides $750 million in federal funding for states to enact so-called "red-flag laws" — which would permit family members or authorities to seek an extreme risk protection order from a court to remove firearms from people believed to be a risk to themselves or others.

Aceves was charged with a third-degree felony count of making a terroristic threat. He is currently being held on a bond of $50,000.

5th-grade boy arrested after allegedly threatening to carry out mass shooting: 'Now is not the time to act like a little delinquent'



A 10-year-old Florida boy was arrested over the weekend after allegedly threatening to carry out a mass shooting.

What are the details?

The Lee County Sheriff’s Office said it learned on Saturday of a threatening text message sent by a fifth-grade student at Patriot Elementary School in Cape Coral.

The School Threat Enforcement Team was immediately notified and began analytical research, the sheriff's office said, adding that the Youth Services Criminal Investigations Division assumed the case.

Detectives interviewed the suspect and determined there was probable cause for his arrest, authorities said, adding that that boy was charged with making a written threat to conduct a mass shooting.

“This student’s behavior is sickening, especially after the recent tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Sheriff Carmine Marceno said. “Making sure our children are safe is paramount. We will have law and order in our schools! My team didn’t hesitate one second…NOT ONE SECOND, to investigate this threat.”

Marceno added that "right now is not the time to act like a little delinquent. It’s not funny. This child made a fake threat, and now he’s experiencing real consequences."

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'We are going to kill them'

The day before authorities discovered the 10-year-old boy's alleged mass shooting threat, the Lee County Sheriff's Office posted a video showing Marceno standing in front of six armed deputies — three of them in tactical gear — and issuing a stern warning to those who may be thinking of copying the Uvalde, Texas, mass killer.

Marceno said those in Lee County who "go into a school [and] present deadly force, they will be met with deadly force immediately. We are going to kill them. We're not gonna hesitate. We're not gonna wait ... You don't get to shoot our children."

He added that "haters" who believe he's issuing such statements for publicity "are motivators."

"If you have an issue with me saying, 'we meet deadly force with deadly force,' or you have an issue with me saying, 'when someone presents deadly force against our children, we are absolutely going to annihilate and kill them,' then I don't want your vote," Marceno added. "I don't care what you think. And we have no issue in talking about that, because there's nothing else to say."

He made no bones about his politics, either, calling Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis "great" and also stating, "We spend over 50 billion dollars in helping out the Ukraine. How much of that money goes to target-hardening our schools, school safety, making sure that our children come home — which is most important?"

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UCLA switches to remote learning after mass shooting threat; suspect in custody



The University of California, Los Angeles, canceled classes and switched entirely to online learning Tuesday after a person made threats of a possible shooting. The suspect is now in custody in Colorado, according to the school.

"We are greatly relieved to share that law enforcement officers in Colorado have taken into custody the individual who made threats against some members of our UCLA community yesterday," school officials told students in an email.

UCLA announced Monday that all classes on Tuesday would be held remotely after the school received a "concerning email and posting."

The Daily Bruin reported that an 800-page manifesto was sent to faculty and some students by Matthew Harris, a former lecturer and postdoctoral fellow, who also posted a video referring to mass shootings. The manifesto contained threats made against members of the university's philosophy department, according to the university paper. The Los Angeles Times, which obtained a copy of Harris' email, reported that he made several references to race and used numerous profanities.

The video, posted to YouTube, was titled, "UCLA PHILOSOPHY (MASS SHOOTING)" and has since been taken down. The video reportedly featured references to the 2017 mass shooting incident at a music festival in Las Vegas.

According to the Daily Bruin, before Harris was apprehended, faculty from the philosophy department had advised that in-person classes be canceled until his location was determined.

Los Angeles County police said they partnered with the FBI to investigate the threats. The FBI's Los Angeles field office told USA Today agents were working with UCLA "to assess the situation."

UCLA spokesman Bill Kisliuk said Tuesday morning that out-of-state law enforcement agencies confirmed Harris was not in California and that he was being monitored. He was taken into custody by police in Colorado later that day, UCLA said.

"While the campus will continue with plans to keep instruction remote today, with this development, we will return to in-person instruction tomorrow," the school told students.

Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore said Tuesday that UCLA's campus is safe. According to the L.A. Times, he also said the department's mental evaluation unit had previous contact with the suspect in the spring of 2021.

The LAPD told the Times that Harris currently lives in Boulder, Colorado, and the paper reported he had been taken into custody there.

While at UCLA, Harris was a lecturer for multiple courses, including Philosophy 168: "Philosophy of Race."

Reviews on buinwalk.com, a website where students can post anonymous reviews of professors and other UCLA faculty, described Harris' disturbing behavior as a teacher.

One review said Harris was "extremely unprofessional and has sent his personal p*rnographic content to a student."

Another described his class as "my least favorite class at ucla ever" and claimed multiple students complained to the department about his unreasonable demands.

The Daily Bruin reported that Harris was placed on leave last spring while campus officials investigated allegations that he sent a video with pornographic content to a student. His postdoctoral fellowship was set to end in June 2021.