14-Year-Old FPC Student Faces Felony Charge After Threatening Girl to Shoot Her

May 28, 2021 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment “Social media is kind of the downfall of a lot of things right now,” Gabe Fuentes, a Flagler County Sheriff’s detective, said during an interview with an individual–later exonerated–in a 2019 criminal case that ended in an acquittal today.(Maurizio Pesce) A 14-year-old Flagler Palm Coast High School student, a boy, was arrested and faces a second-degree felony charge of written threats to kill after allegedly threatening to shoot a fellow-student after she’d contacted him and argued with him by Snapchat on Wednesday. School officials became aware of the threat. The school’s threat assessment team met. Such teams are established in every school and serve in part as a means of gauging the sort of threats or security issues that come to light, often resolving the issues internally or administratively, through the school’s own investigations and disciplinary measures. On occasions, the team judges the matter as warranting law enforcement’s intervention, as it did in this case. According to the information the dean passed on to a Flagler County Sheriff’s school resource deputy, the 14-year-iold girl had messaged the boy around noon Wednesday, asking him if he intended to fight another student at…
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