The first day of classes got off to a rough start for a mother who was arrested after she allegedly threatened to shoot another mother during morning drop-off at an elementary school in Miami-Dade, authorities said.

Erika Letisha Cruz, 39, was arrested Thursday on charges including exhibiting a weapon on school property, aggravated assault with a firearm, and aggravated battery, records showed. Miami-Dade Corrections

The alleged incident happened at Arcola Lake Elementary at 1037 Northwest 81st Street, on the first day of classes at Miami-Dade County Public Schools.

According to an arrest report, Cruz told officers a parent and her child were in her way while she was dropping her child off at school, and words were exchanged between the two.

But the mother said she was walking her dis

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