The Polk County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a 15-year-old Tenoroc High School student for bringing a gun on campus and using it to threaten another student.
Just after 8 a.m. on Wednesday, the school resource deputy at Tenoroc High School, 4905 Saddle Creek Road in Lakeland, received an anonymous tip that a student brought a gun to school.
The deputy located the student and found a semi-automatic pistol in his jacket pocket and a magazine with 12 rounds in his pants pocket.
During the investigation, the deputy learned the teen threatened a student with a firearm in the school bathroom.
The threatened student told the deputy that he walked into the bathroom where the 15-year-old called him a racial slur and said he would shoot him. He then reached into the inner pocket of his jacket and pulled out the gun.
The teen was arrested and charged with possession of a firearm on a school campus, carrying a concealed firearm, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, disruption of a school function, possession of a firearm by someone under 18, and possession of a firearm with an altered serial number.