Steinbrenner High Student Arrested For Making Threat

LUTZ, FL — A 16-year-old Steinbrenner High School student has been arrested after posting a threatening message to a fellow student.

The student was arrested Friday after sending a message via the app YOLO that read: "Don't come to school on club day...if you hear the fire alarm you'll know," referencing the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting.

Out of concern for the safety of students, staff and faculty, the anonymous message was posted on Snapchat by the student who received it. Once on Snapchat, the message was shared on Facebook by a concerned parent. The posts to various forms of social media caused alarm, leading some students to stay home and some parents to notify law enforcement.

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office was able to track the initial message back to the 16-year-old, who admitted to sending the YOLO message and acknowledged that it was meant to relate to the shooting in Parkland.

He was charged with a felony for written threat to conduct a mass shooting or act of terrorism.

"There are serious consequences to posting threats online, and unfortunately, another young person has learned that the hard way," said Sheriff Chad Chronister. "Making threats disrupts school, causes panic among students, parents and staff, and wastes limited law enforcement resources. We hope that this latest arrest will serve as an example to other students not to let one thoughtless remark on social media cause them to start their adult lives in jail."