The 10-year-old Hispanic boy who allegedly warned that he would carry out a shooting at his school in Florida faces charges as a youth of manifesting his intentions in writing.
On Saturday, the suspect, identified as Daniel Isaac Márquez, was arrested, and the Lee County Sheriff’s Office released images of the intervention and the booking photo.
“I campaigned: false threat, real consequence”, Sheriff Carmine Marceno told W Radio in Colombia.
“Although I understand that the minor is 10 years old, his brain is not fully developed, is a young man, I have to tell you: when a child from 10 pulls the trigger on us, the result is the same regardless of age.”
The aforementioned office shared images on Facebook in which Márquez, a student at Patriot Elementary School in Cape Coral, is seen handcuffed and escorted by an agent.
The young man, allegedly. sent a text message with the threat and someone referred the tip to the Police on May 28.
According to the sheriff, the boy told a friend about bundles of cash and to prepare for the alleged mass shooting he would lead.
“I scammed my friend”, the Hispanic allegedly wrote in the text that included a Google image of money.
In addition, the defendant would have shared an image of assault rifles that he had allegedly bought and told the sender to prepare for water day, this in reference to a day of aquatic events at school.
“We didn’t wait a single second”, stated Marceno about the intervention of the authorities. “We investigate every threat as if it were real,” he added.
“We have zero tolerance,” he assured. “Our children are going to be safe no matter what it is”, he pointed out.
The arrest of this child occurs just days after Salvador Ramos, of 18, killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, in a shooting incident in which he precisely used an AR-15 to take action against the victims.
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