Cypress Lake Middle School student confessed to mass shooting threat

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A middle school student was arrested on Tuesday afternoon after she confessed to a written threat to carry out a mass shooting.

The 12-year-old girl was charged with one felony count of a written threat to do bodily harm or mass shooting, Lee County Sheriff’s Office said in a press release. The Cypress Lake Middle School student wrote, “shooting Nov 14,” inside a handicap stall in a girls bathroom.

“False threats tie up resources which could otherwise be deployed to authentic emergencies,” Trish Routte, the Crime Stoppers coordinator, said in a press release. “There are repercussions to these irresponsible actions and students needs to be aware that consequences will accompany any false threats made to a school.”

 

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