Fla student questioned by police for posing with rifle

Another Florida student was questioned by police for posing with a gun and making a threat on social media.  

Earlier this week, Miami-Dade police questioned a student at Terra Environmental Research Institute in Miami after he shared a Snapchat photo of himself holding an asault-style rifle with the caption: ‘Here’s a big fat F*** YOU to everyone’.

Police told the Miami New Times that they talked to the student and his parents and determined he did not pose a threat. The student’s identity was not released because he wasn’t charged with a crime.  

A student at Terra Environmental Research Institute in Miami posted the above Snapchat photo showing himself posing with an assault-style rifle. Police questioned the teen and determined he was not a threat so charges were not filed 

A spokesman for Terra Environmental Research Institute said the student could be facing disciplinary actions 

A spokesman for Terra Environmental Research Institute said the student could be facing disciplinary actions 

The post was made one week after 17 students and staff members were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland on February 14

The post was made one week after 17 students and staff members were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland on February 14

The Parkland massacre is said to the second-deadliest shooting at a US public school.

The Parkland massacre is said to the second-deadliest shooting at a US public school.

School district spokesman John Schuster told the outlet although police decided charges were not warranted, the student may face disciplinary actions. determined by school officials. 

‘Miami-Dade Schools Police thoroughly investigated this incident, and although the student’s actions clearly demonstrated a lack of judgment, they did not constitute a threat,’ he said. ‘School administrators will be meeting with the student’s parents to discuss possible disciplinary measures, as outlined in the Code of Student Conduct.’

Terra Environmental Research Institute is about 50 miles from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 students and staff members were killed by 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz on February 14. 

The Parkland massacre is said to the second-deadliest shooting at a US public school. 

In the week since the devastating shooting, several students at schools across Florida have either been arrested or questioned by police for posting threatening messages online. 

On February 15, one day after the attack at Marjory Stoneman, an 11-year-old Miami-Dade student was arrested for writing a threatening note and slipping it under the assistant principal’s door, the Miami Herald reports. 

According to police, the note read: ‘I will being a gun to school and kill all of you ugly a** kids and teachers b****. I will bring the gun Feb, 16, 18. Be prepared b****!’

Last week, an 11-year-old Florida student was arrested for writing the above threatening note and slipping it under the door of her school's assistant principal 

Last week, an 11-year-old Florida student was arrested for writing the above threatening note and slipping it under the door of her school’s assistant principal 

Nikolas Cruz, 19, was charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder following the Parkland school massacre 

Nikolas Cruz, 19, was charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder following the Parkland school massacre 

The message was written by Jasmine Powell, a sixth grader at Nova Middle School, who told police that a fellow classmate told her to write the letter and if she didn’t she would be beaten up.     

‘So to avoid getting in a fight … I put the letter under the door,’ she said. 

Police said surveillance video at the school captured the girl slipping the letter under the assistant principal’s door. She was taken to the Miami-Dade County’s Juvenille Assessment Center following the incident. 

Last week, a 15-year-old student was questioned after he posted on Instagram that he was going to ‘kill people’ at Broward County schools, the same district as Marjory Stoneman. 

The teen told police that he wrote the post to scare his cousin.     



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