2024-09-06 19:30:02
One person was arrested after a threat posted to an Instagram account late Thursday night worried parents and students of a Southwest Miami-Dade middle school, an officer told NBC6 at the scene Friday morning.
A local high school also received some kind of threat.
The first threat appeared to target Lamar Louise Curry Middle School with a post that showed what looked like a firearm and text over it, saying: “Don’t go to school tmr llcms”.
One mother said she would not be sending her child to school.
“As a parent, we got to make a decision whether we send it to school when there’s a threat and risk it that something happens or deal with a school absence. Today, I’d rather deal with a school absence than lose my child, because their life is priceless and nothing can bring it back,” she said.
A recorded message from the school’s principal alerted the community about the threat, saying the school was informed of the threat and immediately alerted Miami-Dade Schools Police Department. It goes on to say that authorities are investigating and taking appropriate security measures.
The message also mentioned legal consequences for threats against schools, not matter how large or small those threats may be.
Officials at Coconut Creek High School also said they received a school threat, but did not provide more information and it was not clear if it could be connected to the threat at Lamar Louise Curry. Classes have not been canceled at either school.
“Unfortunately, the kids today got a deal with so many things that we didn’t have to deal with when we were younger. They got to worry more about their safety at school instead of their education,” the concerned mother said.
Miami-Dade Public Schools have yet to provide details about the social media post.
The threats follow a mass shooting at a school in Winder, Georgia, that left two students and two teachers dead and for which a 14-year-old and his father are now facing charges. The teen denied threatening to carry out a school shooting when authorities interviewed him in 2023 about a menacing post on social media, according to a sheriff’s report obtained Thursday.
That deadly shooting left parents and students across the country on high alert.
“We just got to pray that they leave the politics aside and bring gun controls and things that make the school safe and keep our kids safe at school,” the South Florida mother who would not be sending her child to school said. “And pray that they’re safe every day and they come home to us.”
NBC6 is working to learn more.
