A student at the school where a massacre took place last year was arrested on Thursday after threatening a mass shooting, just days after a deadly school shooting in Michigan.
There are flowers, candles, and other items outside of a makeshift memorial at a Florida high school. The photo was taken by Ramona Wise/AFP.
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The threat was reported to the Sheriff's Office. The student was arrested Thursday.
The student was charged with one count of writing threats to carry out a mass shooting.
The arrest comes just days after four students were killed in a shooting at Oxford High School near Detroit, where authorities have arrested a 15-year-old and charged him with terrorism and first-degree murder.
The principal of the school said in a call to parents that threats will result in serious consequences even if they are a joke.
What to watch for.
There are concerns of copycat threats after Tuesday's Michigan shooting. Several schools in the Detroit area decided to close on Thursday because of threats of violence on social media.
The key background.
Fourteen students and three staff members were killed in a school shooting in February of last year. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for the man who killed 17 people at a high school. The national outrage caused by the shooting sparked the most widespread movement for gun control reform in recent history, with an estimated 2 million people taking to the streets as part of the March for Our Lives in March.
The father of a man who was killed in a shooting in Washington, DC, said he was in Washington on Thursday in the hopes of meeting with the president to discuss gun control.
The suspect in the Michigan school shooting has been charged with terrorism and murder.
More Michigan schools close as 'copycat threats' fill social media.
The death penalty could still be on the table for the shooter in the massacre.
Police say a student from the high school was arrested for making threats.
