Florida authorities released photos and images of the arrest of a 10-year-old boy accused of threatening to shoot at his school on Monday, and the local sheriff said the move was only dessert for an alleged criminal .
“I campaigned: a false threat, a real consequence,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno told W Radio in Colombia. “Although I understand that the child is 10 years old, his brain is not fully developed, he is a young man, I must tell you: when a 10-year-old boy presses a trigger, the consequences are the same regardless of age “.
The sheriff’s office posted a video on Facebook showing Daniel Isaac Marquez, a fifth-grader at Cape Coral Patriot Elementary School, being arrested Saturday for allegedly texting a reporter to deputies on 28 May.
Daniel was seen driving with his hands in handcuffs on his back as he was dressed in blue Crocs and a camouflage sweatshirt with a hood, zipper and matching shorts.
Marceno spoke about the baby-faced suspect on W Radio, saying that Daniel told a friend in a text message about “cash bags” and that he was “preparing” to carry out the mass shooting.
“I swindled my friend,” the boy allegedly wrote in the text, which included a picture of Google money, according to an arrest report.
Florida authorities on Monday released a photograph and images of the arrest of Daniel Issac Marquez, 10, accused of threatening to shoot at his school. Lee / MEGA County Sheriff’s Office
Daniel then allegedly shared a picture of four assault rifles that he said he bought and told his friend to “get ready for water day,” referring to a recent event sponsored by the school in which students participate in water activities.
“We don’t wait a second,” Marceno said of the boy’s threat. “We investigate every threat as if it were real.
“We have zero tolerance,” he said. “Our children will be safe no matter what.
“So all we have to do is ask parents to sit down with their kids … We have to do everything we can as a team to avoid these kinds of problems and not ignore the red flags.”
Marceno said the boy was accused when he was young of having made a written threat to carry out a mass shooting.
Later in the interview, Marceno explained his department’s response to an aspiring school shooter.
“You can’t go into one of my schools in my county and present a deadly force,” Marceno said. “Because we are in a deadly force with a deadly force, without a second, without hesitation. If you think you are going to kill a child, a teacher, or a teacher, think again, we will kill you immediately.
A Facebook video showed the arrest of Daniel Isaac Marquez, a fifth-grader at Cape Coral Patriot Elementary School. Facebook / Lee County Sheriff
The pint-sized assailant was arrested a day before Florida man Corey Anderson, 18, was arrested Sunday at a Lutz home after making an online threat while posting photos of him. even with what appeared to be a rifle, a pistol, and a tactical style. vest, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office.
The creepy photo was accompanied by a caption that read, “Hello Siri, directions to the nearest school,” authorities said.
Investigators later determined that the weapon and rifle in Anderson’s photo were airsoft guns, firing pellets instead of bullets.
The twin threats in Florida came just days after a gunman stormed Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, with a pair of AR-15-style rifles and killed 19 fourth graders and two teachers on Tuesday. The massacre was the deadliest school shooting since 26 people, including 20 students, were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut in December 2012.