'Round 2 of Florida tomorrow': Ninth-grade student in S.C. arrested after posting threat on Snapchat

The day after a gunman fatally shot 17 people at a South Florida high school, many of America's teenagers went to school, as always, returning to routines that usually felt safe.

But on campuses across the country, a palpable uneasiness descended on faculty, staff and students, who struggled with news out of Parkland, Florida, where police say Nikolas Cruz walked into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School with an AR-15 and opened fire.

Adding to the anxiety: The spread of copycat threats on Snapchat and other social networks, where ominous messages proliferated.

Though most appeared to be hoaxes, administrators, police and school resources officers were on high alert, looking out - warily - for students motivated to threaten or engage in similar behavior.

In Arkansas, a Fayetteville High School student allegedly threatened to "shoot up the high school like they did in Florida" - and was arrested. "The police determined that the student did not intend to carry out the threat, but the act of making a threat against a school is against the law," officials said in a statement early Friday.

In Spartanburg, South Carolina, a ninth-grade student at Broome High School was arrested after he allegedly posted a photo of himself on Snapchat wearing a partial mask and holding what appeared to be an assault rifle.

The photo was captioned, "Round 2 of Florida tomorrow," Spartanburg sheriff's officials told Fox affiliate WHNS.

Authorities told the station that a parent of another child had reported the threat and helped deputies identify the student in the photo.

Source: Duluthnewstribune