15-year-old student arrested for threatening to “shoot up” Buchholz High School
Staff report from Alachua County Sheriff’s Office social media post
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – At about 2:44 p.m. on March 10, Buchholz High School School Resource Deputy (SRD) T. Trueluck was informed of some alarming messages sent through Discord, a social media platform, and determined that the messages were sent by 15-year-old Rayonna Jones, a Buchholz student. Jones said in the messages that she wanted to buy a gun “to shoot up the school 
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SRD Trueluck went to Jones’ home to interview her. During the interview, Jones admitted to sending the messages. She explained that she was frustrated about getting in trouble for skipping school and that she did not have any intentions to carry out the threat.
Jones was placed under arrest for Written Threats to Conduct a Mass Shooting and transported to the Juvenile Detention Center.
Parents, due to past school shootings, train your teenagers to vent their frustration in a less specific violence. This will follow them the rest of their life.
I agree but a lot of parents today also have been indoctrinated into the model of everybody is a winner and there are no consequences for acting out.
Are parents even being held responsible for the actions of their children any more? It seems not, with all the early teens acting out. Maybe some people need to have their feet held to the fire, especially missing dads.
What a change from pre-9/11 and pre-Columbine when high school kids kept hunting rifles in the back of their trucks in the school parking lot. You know back before school shootings were prevalent. Before the mass inundation of constant pharmaceuticals. Prior to everyone being labeled a terrorist.
Anyone else want the America of yesteryear back?
And none of them threatened to shoot up the school with those rifles…
Exactly!
Really? This is not like 9/11 or columbine in ANY WAY. It’s also not like kids who carried their hunting rifles. In fact, this is the reason kids CAN’T carry their hunting rifles. This statement is ridiculous.
You are completely missing the point. This issue would have never been an issue back in the day. Everyone would have laughed at her 25 years ago. Society has drastically changed.
The two events I mentioned above destroyed any trust that remained in our society. I say they were planned. Some say they were not. Regardless, now school children are treated like prisoners of the state.
The kid is 15, can’t legally buy a gun, you gotta be 21.
Kid did something stupid on social media..
Hopefully the kid has a successful future, career, education, family, & life . No one got injured.
The kid is part of a systemic behavior situation where, nowadays, parents encourage their children to become defiant, dishonest, and disrespectful to others, especially teachers who have decided not to continue teaching in such conditions. This is one of the reasons we have a teacher shortage. The issues of frustration, aggravation, and lack of discipline at home are leading these kinds of kids to potentially become criminals due to a lack of values at home. This could be resolved by making parents accountable and putting them in jail as well. You would see how society changes drastically.
Now kids go to school with bulletproof backpackc inserts to protect them from other kids acting out because their feelings got hurt. Yes America needs a reset.
Social media happened after those good ole days.
Real JK: bingo! You got it right.
Publishing the child’s name is just wrong.
Public shaming should be more prevalent, not less so. Don’t want your name out there? Don’t threaten to shoot up the school.
I’m sure Jim Bob never said anything stupid when he was a child . . .
Just the facts: you get bingo too!
The kid was just stupid is all..
Shame on whoever reported this girl. She obviously did not mean this in sincerity- I mean my goodness she followed the statement with a smiley emoji. Hoping she can get back to school as soon as possible.
How do you know that? Waiting for some expert factual response besides she put a emoji behind it.
That’s a really ignorant statement!
Guarantee “Let this girl be” lives on the east side of town in a certain neighborhood where they protect their own and nobody snitches…….and crime runs rampant w/o consequence.
You must be elected to the school board
She was skipping skool before this.
I wonder what you would be saying if nobody said anything and they actually carried out their plans????
Jennifer, what is the law and your procedure on publishing the names of juveniles. I thought that was illegal, but apparently not.
They can be released if the defendant is charged with a felony. In this case, the name was posted by ASO on their Facebook page.
I don’t think the incident warranted her arrest and especially publishing her name.
The Alachua Chronicle didn’t make a charging decision. ASO did the charging and the Chronicle reported it. And of course with your opinion of the girl not being arrested or name being published well maybe you should have run for sheriff instead of Clovis 2.0
Another strange comment
No one cares about a hard leftist’s opinion.
Now she’ll be groomed in juvenile detention so lawyers can get a bigger case next time.
Instead, the parents should be fined for allowing kids to behave that way. Many parents are simply using child tax credits and counting the days til their monsters turn 18.