Florida sheriff is praised for shaming parents of teens threatening to shoot up schools: ‘If you don’t raise your kids, I will… in jail’

A Florida sheriff is being praised after he called out parents to ‘do their job’ amid a slew of shooting threats among schools across the state.

Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood made the comments after his department arrested an 11-year-old boy who had made a threat against a local school in his jurisdiction. 

Sheriff Chitwood delivered a photo and ‘perp walk’ video yesterday of the 11-year-old boy, Carlo ‘Kingston’ Dorelli, who is accused of making a school shooting threat to Port Orange Middle School. 

Chitwood posted the perp walk in an attempt to publicly shame the accused and embarrass the parents into ‘raising their kids’ or else he will… from jail. 

Now, people have taken to X to applaud Chitwood for his no-nonsense policy that aims to put an end to violence and threats among schools. One user wrote: ‘Hell yes! That’s what needed to happen. It’s called ACCOUNTABILITY for your stupid f*** ups.’

Another user said: ‘That is so awesome! Parents these days are worthless. You need to be like parents from the 70s and 80s, Gen X parents. I guess they would have been baby boomers. These people raising their kids nowadays are a bunch of weirdos, holy moly.’

The sheriff’s office said that a search of Dorelli’s room led to the discovery of airsoft rifles, pistols, fake ammunition, knives, swords and other weapons, which the student was showing off to others in a Facetime video designed to give a realistic appearance. 

Following yesterday’s arrest, Chitwood revealed his department had spent nearly $21,000 investigating a multitude of hoax school shootings since September 13.

This included 54 tips that come in regarding threats of schools shootings in less than 24 hours – all of which have been ‘deemed bogus’. 

‘I can’t say this clearer,’ Chitwood said on X. ‘You don’t stand up on an airplane and yell hijack, you don’t walk into a movie theater and yell fire and you don’t get online and post that you’re going to shoot up a school. It’s going to get your a** sent to jail.’ 

An 11-year-old student, Carlo ‘Kingston’ Dorelli, was arrested and charged as a juvenile after threatening to shoot up a middle school 

He added that since the school year has started, there have been a total of 207 threats, which is ‘unacceptable’ and ‘not a joke’.

‘This is absolutely out of control and it ends now,’ he added in the post.

‘Parents, do your job, don’t let Sheriff Chitwood raise your kids. Go talk to the families who have lost a loved one in a school shooting. These little knuckleheads think it’s funny, go talk to those parents and see how funny this is.’

‘It’s not, we’re going to come and get you and we’re going to put you out for public embarrassment.’

Dorelli claimed that the ‘hit-list’ authorities found after searching his room was ‘just a joke’ and he wasn’t intending to harm any of the individuals listed

During a search of the suspect’s room, authorities found replica assault rifles, samurai swords, throwing stars and knives which the 11-year-old boy showed to other classmates in a video call

Police were alerted Dorelli’s alleged threats from a tip to Fortify Florida, according to a press release. 

Dorelli claimed that ‘it was all a joke’ after authorities uncovered a ‘kill list’, which had a written list of names and targets, The Daily Mail reported. 

The other students who witnessed the weapons on video chat claimed that they didn’t know for sure whether the weapons were real. 

Dorelli denied that he was ever going to commit any real harm to anyone at the school, and he made a list of names as a joke, according to CNN. 

Sheriff Chitwood stood by his promise and shared the mugshot and videos of the 11-year-old child who was detained for threatening to shoot up Port Orange Middle School in Florida

His arrest followed two other arrests – a 13-year-old student and a 14-year-old student at Heritage Middle School who were arrested for making written threats to kill after allegedly posting about committing a school shooting on social platforms such as TikTok and Instagram, according to Fox News. 

A wave of school shooting hoaxes have erupted in Florida recently, which comes in the wake of the deadly attack at Apalachee High School in Georgia, when a 14-year-old student opened fire killing four people – two students and two teachers.

The suspect was swarmed and immediately surrendered before being taken into custody and tried with murder as an adult.

The influx of school shootings threats are not isolated to the one state. On Friday, two teens were arrested in Foley, Alabama, after ‘making terrorist threats’ on social media, CNN added. 

This came days after another school in that same town was put on lockdown after a teacher overheard a student discussing having a weapon with him.

On that same day, a 12-year-old and 15-year-old were arrested in Indianapolis in two different cases of violent threats against their school, CNN added. 

Sheriff Chitwood is warning parents to get their kids in line and ‘raise their children’ after 54 tips came in to Fortify Florida in less than 24 hours regarding threats of school shootings – costing the agency $21,000 to investigate

Dozens of threats have also plagued Texas within just one month of the school year beginning – many of the culprits being pre-teens. 

In San Antonio, there have already been multiple arrests made including two 12-year-old students who were arrested in one week for posting threatening images on social media, according to My San Antonio. 

On September 8, one of the 12-year-olds threatened to shoot up several schools in multiple different districts in San Antonio and had posted a picture of a weapon and tagged multiple San Antonio-area campuses with dates, My San Antonio added. 

With the school year just beginning, parents are left worried and concerned about sending their kids to school in the midst of growing threats and anxiety.

More than 383,000 students have experienced gun violence at school since Columbine, according to The Washington Post. 

Since the deadly 1999 attack that took the lives of 13 people – 12 students and one teacher, in Columbine High School, Colorado, there have been 417 school shootings across the United States, the Washington Post added. 

‘We’ve had seven in custody, we had somebody try to bring a gun into a football game,’ Chitwood added.

‘You think it’s a joke? You’re going to find your a** in handcuffs and you’re going to find your a** being paraded out in front of the news media behind me and your parents are going to be filmed as they come to pick you up.’

‘So parents, get your kids in line or your checkbooks are going to hurt and your pride is going to hurt. I promise.’