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3 students arrested recently for various school threats in Manatee County

One Parrish Community High School student allegedly posted a video to social media "simulating a mass shooting on campus with a toy gun."

PARRISH, Fla. — Three students have been arrested over the span of two days for threatening a mass shooting on social media in Manatee County, according to a sheriff's office news release.

Authorities said two students from  Parrish Community High School posted similar threatening videos to social media during a bomb threat evacuation on Tuesday. 

One of the videos depicted a student "simulating a mass shooting on campus with a toy gun," authorities explained. That student was identified by a school resource deputy and was arrested at home Thursday morning, according to the sheriff's office.

"The student admitted to making the video and was taken to juvenile detention and charged with the second-degree felony of making written or electronic threats to kill, do bodily injury, or conduct a mass shooting," authorities said.

Deputies do not have evidence at this time if both students have some type of connection to the other threats over the past week. Both students face similar charges. The investigation continues with the possibility of additional arrests. 

“We had a student come to the school resource deputy and shared the video. That gives us good information so we were able to go find that student sitting in a classroom and he was arrested on site. Same charges second degree felony, this falls under the statue written or electronic threat," a spokesperson for Manatee County Sheriff's Office said.

Manatee County Schools earlier confirmed five threats have been made against the school in the past week. 

On Wednesday, deputies arrested a student near Buffalo Creek Middle School for posting a video to social media about "shooting up a classroom."

At around 9:26 a.m., a Fortify Florida tip was received about a video on social media simulating shots being fired in a classroom with a toy gun.

The TikTok user was quickly identified as a student at Buffalo Creek Middle School in Palmetto. According to the sheriff's office, the student was found at school and admitted to making the video.

The middle schooler was arrested for making written or electronic threats to kill, do bodily injury or conduct a mass shooting – which is a second-degree felony.

"There is no evidence that this student was involved in other recent school threats in Manatee County," the sheriff's office said in a statement.

10 Tampa Bay's Courtney Holland contributed to this article. 

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