He told other students that he would “shoot him” and “shoot it up here,” deputies say.

SPRING HILL – A 14-year-old student at Challenger K-8 was arrested Friday (Sept. 20) after he threatened to bring a gun to school to “shoot it up here,” the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office said.

The boy was charged with one count of Written Threats to Kill or Injure. Deputies said he did not have access to a firearm and did not take one to the campus.

About 8:47 a.m. Friday, the School Resource Officer, Deputy Shaun Duval, received a tip that a student might be bringing a gun to Challenger K-8, a science and mathematics magnet in Spring Hill. Additional deputies were sent to the campus where school buses were just arriving.

Deputies found the student and took him to the school office for questioning.

Deputies said that, on Friday, the boy used the Instagram app, while on the school bus, to send the message, “I’m going to shoot him.” Two days earlier, on Wednesday (Sept. 18), the teen had made a statement to several other students to the effect of, “”I’m going to bring a gun to school and shoot him” and “You knowno I love you, bro, but it’s gonna go down tomorrow. I’m gonna shoot it up here.”

Deputies said the boy admitted sending the Instagram message and making the statements. He also signed a sworn statement admitting what he’d done.

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