- December 4, 2025
An 11-year-old Rymfire Elementary School student is facing a felony charge after he sent a picture of a pellet gun and a threatening message to other students.
The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office was contacted about the threat by a Rymfire Elementary School administrator on Sept. 15 about the threats. In a video message to Flagler Schools parents, Superintendent LaShakia Moore said the threat was reported through the Fortify Florida System.
The threats were sent by the suspect student to another student over a group chat with multiple other Rymfire students, according to an arrest report.
“I want to be clear, threats, intimidation and violence of any kind will never be tolerated in Flagler Schools,” Moore said.
The most effective tool to prevent harm is the “active participation of each of you,” she said.
“While this incident is unsettling, it also serves as a powerful reminder of why our ‘See Something, Say Something’ culture is so vital,” Moore said.
In the group chat, one student called the suspect names and told him to “do something about” at school. In return, the suspect sent a picture of a pellet gun with the message “See you at school tomorrow bye” along with a skull emoji.
The other students in the chat told the suspect not to bring a gun to a fist fight or to school, the report said. But later on, the suspect student told the other student it would be his “last day breathing,” among other threatening statements, and sent more pictures of other BB guns.
The suspect admitted to sending the texts and photos but said he wrote them to de-escalate an argument and that he had no intention of actually carrying it out, the report said. He is now facing a felony charge for sending written threats to kill.
Moore urged parents to speak to their children about the importance of speaking up and talking to a trusted adult if anything makes them feel unsafe and the importance of not making threats as jokes.
“We will not take them as jokes,” Moore said. “Our campuses will be a safe place for our students and our staff.”
