Kissimmee Police are investigating after they got word of a school shooting threat.
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The case happened over the weekend when an 11-year-old received messages from an unknown phone number.
“Anytime someone calls her phone or sends a text message to her phone, she immediately brings me the phone, and she is afraid to answer her phone,” said the mother of the 11-year-old, who preferred to remain anonymous when she spoke exclusively with Channel 9. “It is concerning that people can send threats to a child’s phone, scaring her, because she was in fear to go to school.”
The messages started on August 23rd, but initially, the family did not think much about them, only responding, ‘You have the wrong number.’
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However, a few days later, more messages came through. One of them said, “You go to Denn John? I am going shoot up your school”.
The person even sent a picture of a school bus and a driver. “We don’t know if someone’s joking, and we don’t know if they’re serious, but I think it’s better to be safe than sorry. I would hate for something to happen, and I received text messages and was unable to do something,” the woman said.