NORTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) - A teen has bonded out of jail after he was arrested and charged for allegedly posting a threat on social media that he would shoot students at William Turner Technical Arts High School in Northwest Miami-Dade.
7News cameras captured 18-year-old Kenly Dorvil as he bonded out of the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in West Miami-Dade, Monday night.
Hours earlier, cameras showed Miami-Dade Schools Police officers hauling him out to a police cruiser in handcuffs.
Miami-Dade Police officers responded to the school’s campus, located near Northwest 103rd Street and 19th Avenue, just after 9 a.m., Monday.
The @MDSPD has made an arrest of a non @MDCPS student based on the social media threat regarding @TurnerTechHS – as a reminder, we DO NOT take any threat lightly, especially those made via social media – Thank you @MiamiDadePD for assisting us with police presence at school
— Edwin Lopez (@ChiefDoralPD) February 25, 2019
“We were able to take the actual individual into custody, and we obtained a full confession regarding the threat,” said Miami-Dade School Police Chief Edwin Lopez.
That threat, police said, was posted to Dorvil’s Instagram account. It read, “You Turner Tech jits bout to be in caskets.”
Lopez said Dorvil is not a student at William Turner Tech, but he was having issues with certain students at the school.
“He did not have specifics as to the names of the students, but he did know that the students attended the school,” he said.
The post prompted one of Dorvil’s Instagram followers to message him to ask if he was going to shoot up the school.
Screenshots of the conversation between Dorvil and the follower then began making the rounds on social media.
As it turns out, sliding into someone’s direct messages may have helped police build their case. That conversation clarified the initial cryptic post.
The follower asked Dorvil, “So you shooting up TT? Ion understand what you mean about tt kids goin be in caskets?”
Dorvil replied, “Naw bra we not doin nun on tt grounds, we catching em went they get out.”
Miami-Dade Schools Police responded to the threat with a heightened presence on the William Turner Tech campus on Monday out of an abundance of caution.
“He thought that by generalizing a threat toward the school, it would have an impact and cause fear in those specific individuals,” said Lopez.
Dorvil’s arrest comes on the same day a 10-year-old female student at Somerset Academy in Miramar was suspended after allegedly scribbling a message in a girls bathroom that there would be a shooting at the charter school on Tuesday.
“Ima shoot the school Feb. 26,” the scrawled message read.
Even though police said the threat wasn’t credible, charges in this case are pending.
“Our youth are not — many are not realizing the grave nature of certain threats,” said Lopez. “Whether a hoax or actual threats with intent to do harm, we take them extremely seriously.”
Whether the school is in Broward or Miami-Dade, officials said, the message is consistent: If a student is caught making threats, he or she could be taken to jail.
“Law enforcement has taken an aggressive stance with dealing with these matters,” said Lopez. “We take it very seriously. We have zero tolerance in dealing with threats of any kind, specifically the social media threats.”
Dorvil posted a $10,000 bond. He faces one felony charge of written threats to kill or do bodily harm with prejudice.
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