A student is being removed from Horizon Academy in Ocala after admitting to bringing a knife to school and threatening to stab someone.
On Wednesday, the school’s resource officer was contacted by an assistant principal in reference to a student being in possession of a knife. The resource officer, a Marion County sheriff’s deputy, and the assistant principal then met with the student, who said the knife was left outside in front of the school, which is located at 365 Marion Oaks Dr.
The three walked outside and located the knife near an electrical box just off the campus, a sheriff’s office report states, adding that the student claimed to have found the knife on the way to school and showed it to his friends.
The deputy then met with the two friends, who said the three of them were walking to school and when they reached a cut-through by the school’s bus loop, the student showed them knife and said he was going to stab someone, the report says.
The student initially stated that he located the knife after two students engaged in a verbal altercation the day before but then admitted that it was his and he did make the statement about stabbing someone. But he said he was only joking, the report says.
As of Wednesday, the school was completing “alternate placement paperwork” for the student. The deputy also notified the student’s mother about the situation but “she became angry and did not believe her son could have done this and hung up the phone,” the report says.