Volusia County deputies have arrested four children, ages 11 to 15, accused of making school threats in a matter of days. We are not naming any of them because of their ages.

On Sept. 12, deputies arrested two teens.

Deputies said a 15-year-old wrote a threat on his school laptop to bring a gun to Deltona High School and shoot another student. The threat triggered a Gaggle alert, which notified the school resource deputy, who responded and detained the teen before he got on the bus to go home.

The teen admitted he typed the threat, didn’t mean it, and was just angry about being picked on.

That same day, deputies arrested a 13-year-old who they said drew an AR-15 style rifle on his desk at River Springs Middle School with the words “F*** my school” and a date and time. Deputies also sta

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