A 15-year-old resident of the Florida Keys (USA) was arrested for making death threats in a video that he uploaded to his Instagram account in which he appears with a compressed air gun, the media reported Tuesday. local.
The detained minor, Sergio Jiménez, based in the city of Marathon, was accused of the crimes of "writing or electronically making threats to kill or cause physical injury"picked up the Local 10 News channel.
Questioned by Monroe County law enforcement officers, the boy confessed that his intention was to buy a real gun online to "take care of your affairs" and admitted that he also uploaded other videos showing the sale and use of drugs.
Jimenez was turned over to the Department of Juvenile Justice, and the Monroe Sheriff’s Office notified the state attorney’s office and the Florida Department of Children and Families, among others.
On June 8, a 12-year-old minor from a Miami school was arrested and placed under house arrest after he threatened to kill 17 students in his class for allegedly being the target of bullying.
The state of Florida has reinforced school security and placed emphasis on the mental health of students after in 2018 the young Nikolas Cruz entered his old high school in Parkland, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, and murdered 14 students and 3 members of the school staff.
These arrests come at a time when the country continues to be shocked by the massacre last May at a school in Texas, when a young man armed entered the elementary school in the town of Uvalde and killed 19 children and 2 teachers.
