Florida authorities Monday released the mugshot and arrest footage of a 10-year-old boy accused of threatening to shoot up his school, with the local sheriff calling the move just desserts for a suspected criminal.
“I did a campaign: fake threat, real consequence,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno told W Radio in Colombia. “While I understand the boy is 10 years old, his brain’s not fully developed, he’s a juvenile, I have to tell you: When a 10-year-old presses a trigger, the aftermath is the same regardless of the age.”
The sheriff’s office posted video to Facebook showing Daniel Issac Marquez — a fifth-grader at Patriot Elementary School in Cape Coral — being arrested Saturday for the alleged text-message threat, which was forwarded to deputies by a tipster May 28.
Daniel was shown being led off with his hands cuffed behind his back while dressed in blue Crocs and a camouflage, hooded, zip-up sweatshirt and matching shorts.
Marceno spoke about the baby-faced suspect to W Radio, saying Daniel told a friend in a text message about “wads of cash” and to “get ready” for him to carry out the mass shooting.
“I scammed my friend,” the boy allegedly wrote in the text, which included a Google image of money, according to an arrest report.
Daniel then allegedly shared an image of four assault rifles that he said he bought and told his buddy to “get ready for water day” — referencing a recent school-sponsored event in which students participate in water activities.
“We don’t wait 1 second,” Marceno said of looking into the boy’s threat. “We investigate every threat as if it’s real.
“We have zero tolerance,” he said. “Our children are going to be safe no matter what.
“So, what we need to do is, I beg the parents to sit with your children … We need to do everything we can as a team to prevent these types of issues and not ignore the red flags.”
The boy was charged as a juvenile with making a written threat to conduct a mass shooting, Marceno said.
“You don’t get to come into one of my schools in my county and present deadly force,” Marceno said. “Because we meet deadly force with deadly force, without one second, without hesitation. If you think you’re going to come and kill a child, a teacher or a faculty member, think again — we will kill you immediately.”
The pint-size perp was arrested one day before a Florida man, Corey Anderson, 18, was busted Sunday at a home in Lutz after making an online threat while posting photos of himself with what appeared to be a rifle, handgun and tactical-style vest, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office.
The chilling photo was accompanied by a caption that read, “Hey Siri, directions to the nearest school,” authorities said.
Original Article – https://nypost.com/2022/05/30/mugshot-released-for-10-year-old-daniel-isaac-marquez-after-threat-to-shoot-up-florida-school/
C’mon man! A ten year old should be banned from shooting up a school or even using a car to get to the school, unless they are a ”Dreamer”.
You may have notice, if you are paying attention to facts, that DREAMERS do not go around carrying mass shootings.. Immigrants, legal or otherwise usually do not grow up with a culture of guns solving your problems or like to call attention to themselves. That is a problem that is mostly uniquely American among the Western civilized countries.
It is the ubiquity of guns and our culture that lead to this problem.
DREAMERS?????……..SEEMS THAT UVALDE IS A DREAMER TOWN WITH DREAMER PEOPLE, AND TOO MANY OTHER PLACES WHERE THOSE DREAMERS (LOL) LIKE TO KILL……..
Tell that to the people of Mexico that are under the thumb of the cartels…
I could be wrong. But take every child to the fire range. Let them shoot a few rounds. I was hunting at age 10. I knew what a firearm could do. Education is the key.
They used to have shooting classes in some schools where I live, but because of cut backs, they did away with them.
GAREY, YOU ARE CORRECT, MY DAD WANTED A BOY, BUT TAUGHT THIS GAL TO SHOOT A RIFLE, FISH (BAITED MY OWN HOOK & EXTRACTED SAME FROM FISH AT THE AGE OF 11……..I HAD MY CHILDREN LEARN WITH THE NRA AT THE POLICE STATION, AND TOOK SOME MORE LESSONS AT THE SAME TIME…..NONE OF MY CHILDREN EVER LEARNED TO BE A PEOPLE SHOOTER……..THEY RESPECT THE LAW AND THEIR GUNS……….
Why is it always makes? What prevents females from doing things like this?
Ability to use other means to express anger and frustration as well as lower levels of testosterone. Females are also not usually raised in a male guns/ aggression culture.
At that age, my aggression was expressed with fists and school yard fights. Maybe, Just Maybe we should allow young ones the ability to express low level, not deadly aggression as well as limit access to firearms and monitor social website usage.
let me as well suggest we take a closer look at his parents. I suspect a pernicious relationships at his home.
PYTHIAS……….DID YOU FORGET ABOUT BONNIE & CLYDE……….HOW ABOUT CHARLES MANSON AND ALL HIS WOMEN FOLLOWERS……THERE ARE MORE……..GOOGLE THE FACTS