Mayfield Heights police find gun in a home of boy who posted Instagram threat of shooting

MAYFIELD HEIGHTS, Ohio — An FBI agent reported Dec. 9 that a boy in the city had made an Instagram post with the threat of a school shooting and a photo of a male in a mask holding a gun.

The post came from an IP address registered to a residence on Maplewood Road.

An investigation revealed that a boy at the home made the post. He claimed that he found the photo elsewhere about a month earlier and only reposted it…

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