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Gibbs High Student Arrested For Threatening To 'Shoot Up School'

St. Petersburg Police have arrested a 16-year-old Gibbs High School 10th-grader for making repeated threats to "shoot up the whole school."

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St. Petersburg Police have arrested a 16-year-old Gibbs High School 10th-grader for making repeated threats to "shoot up the whole school."
St. Petersburg Police have arrested a 16-year-old Gibbs High School 10th-grader for making repeated threats to "shoot up the whole school." (St. Pete Police )

ST. PETERSBURG, FL — St. Petersburg Police have arrested a 16-year-old Gibbs High School 10th-grader for making repeated threats to "shoot up the whole school" in front of students and adults.

He has been charged with making a false report concerning the use of a firearm/bomb to conduct bodily harm (felony).

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