MIAMI GARDENS, FLA. (WSVN) - A South Florida woman faced a judge a day after, police said, she brought a firearm to a parent-teacher conference with the principal of her child’s elementary school and threatened to use it.
Brenzina Jones appeared in bond court on Friday. The 35-year-old faces several charges, including possession of a firearm on school property and assault.
Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Judith Rubenstein advised the suspect to refrain from speaking.
“Don’t make any statements, Ms. Jones, please,” she said.
According to detectives, before she left the campus of Brentwood Elementary School in Miami Gardens on Thursday night, the suspect told someone at the front security desk she would protect her child.
Court documents state Jones said, “‘I don’t play about somebody playing with my jit. I’ll shoot this [expletive] up.'”
The documents further state the suspect “proceeded to open her purse and recklessly display the butt of her gun.”
Speaking with 7News Friday night, Jones’ teenage son, Marcus Murray Jr., said the story isn’t what it seems.
“The security guard was, I guess [there was] false communication, told her a lie, and because of that, my mom said the kind of words she said,” he said, “but my mom is a sweet mom. She always provides for us.”
Parents of students at the school learned about the incident on Friday.
“They just said that it was some type of activity with a weapon or something like that,” said parent Natasha Young.
“Just hearing this story is very upsetting to me,” said parent Trinece Coleman. “I never know what’s on a person’s mind, so even if she didn’t mean it, the fact that the gun was there, and the fact that the words came with the weapon there, it was very alarming.”
After showing she was armed, court documents state, Jones placed “the gun back into her purse and made loud verbal threats directed towards Brentwood Elementary.”
“My mom is very overprotective, but she would never harm innocents, never,” said Murray.
“I hope that she understands that her child has to see this on the news,” said Coleman. “It’s OK to protect your kids. It’s something that we have, that mother instinct that we want to protect our kids, but I think it’s the way in which we do it.”
While Jones remains locked up, her son said he knows the kind of person she really is.
“I love my mom. She’s a sweet, kind lady. I just pray that everything goes well,” said Murray.
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