Ocala teen accused of posting school shooting threat on social media app – WTSP.com

The 13-year-old was charged with electronic threat to conduct a mass shooting. OCALA, Fla. — A 13-year-old from Ocala is accused of posting photos of firearms in a social media group threatening to start a shooting at his school. On Thursday, another student at Horizon Academy told the Marion County Sheriff’s Office that the teen had shared photos of different firearms with him and others on Snapchat, deputies say.  The photos sent contained captions asking “which one for Friday?” A second showed a picture of a gun with him writing “or this,” the sheriff’s office said in a Facebook post. The students involved in the Snapchat group chat reportedly said that they were not going to school on Friday because of the threats and also after the teen wrote to them, “I’ll bring an AK instead if you don’t like the 1911s.” Deputies say the 13-year-old also asked students in the group chat to send pictures of certain teachers and told them, “tell her I’m gonna be there for her.” Law enforcement says they went to the teen’s home and spoke with his mother. The teen denied sending the photos but when they were shown to his mother, she confirmed that
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