A psychologist said the shooting at Apalachee High School in Georgia could have influenced the increase of threats made at Northeast Florida schools.
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Since the shooting, over a dozen students have been arrested in Duval, Putnam, and Flagler among other counties.Volusia County sheriff threatens to ‘perp-walk’ students, parents after arrest of 11-year-old over school threats Some students have been arrested for making bomb threats, bringing a weapon to school, and making a gun out of clay and pointing it at other students.“One is that they are preoccupied with violence,” Cauffield said. “They play a lot of violent video games. They watch a lot of violent television movies. They draw and sometimes in their drawings, there’s a lot of gore and violent depictions.”
‘We feared this might be a copycat’: Teen arrested in threat of Polk County high school day after shooting in Georgia “Oftentimes you’ll see copycat events, individuals that have been thinking about doing something like this, that idea is planted now because there’s coverage and there’s loss and so they often want to copycat that event, thinking that perhaps they could move up in notoriety,” Cauffield said.
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