Florida man arrested in wealthy beach town over alleged TikTok school-shooting threat

A 20-year-old antheral from Santa Rosa Beach, a affluent beachside assemblage on Florida’s 30A corridor, was arrested implicit the play aft authorities accidental helium posted threatening comments astir a schoolhouse shooting connected TikTok, prompting a accelerated associated probe involving the FBI and section deputies.

The Walton County Sheriff’s Office said it was notified by the FBI connected Saturday of a imaginable online menace referencing a planned schoolhouse shooting. According to the agency, an idiosyncratic operating a TikTok relationship had livestreamed statements that were "immediately flagged and pulled down" owed to their convulsive nature.

Deputies, moving with national agents, identified the idiosyncratic arsenic Ethan Charles Ladner, 20, of Santa Rosa Beach. Investigators contacted Ladner, who confirmed the TikTok relationship belonged to him, they said. The sheriff’s bureau said Ladner admitted to posting the threatening comments and told deputies helium had been attempting to provoke reactions online.

Ethan Charles Ladner, 20, of Santa Rosa Beach was arrested for allegedly making schoolhouse shooting threats connected TikTok aft a associated FBI investigation. (Walton County Sheriff’s Office)

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Ladner was arrested and charged with making physics threats of a wide shooting, a felony nether Florida law.

Booking records from the Walton County Jail amusement helium was taken into custody Sunday and processed connected the azygous felony count.

In a statement, the sheriff’s bureau emphasized that threats of schoolhouse violence, whether intended earnestly oregon arsenic "jokes," are investigated arsenic credible until proven otherwise.

"Let america beryllium clear. There is nary specified happening arsenic a ‘joke’ erstwhile it comes to threats of unit toward our schools," the bureau said. "These investigations mobilize extended law-enforcement resources and transportation superior ineligible consequences."

Florida's Gulf Coast, including Santa Rosa Beach, with condos, hotels and rental homes. (Trong Nyguen/Getty Images)

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Officials said the timing of the menace heightened concern, arsenic students successful Walton County nationalist schools returned from Thanksgiving interruption connected Monday.

The sheriff’s bureau said deputies proceed to enactment intimately with section schoolhouse officials and national partners "to guarantee a harmless situation for some students and staff." Fox News Digital has reached retired to the Walton County Sheriff's Office and the FBI for further details.

Topsail Hill Preserve State Park is located successful Santa Rosa Beach successful Walton County astatine 7525 W. Scenic Highway 30A. (Tina Harbuck/The Destin Log / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

The bureau urged parents to talk with their children astir the seriousness of posting threats oregon convulsive remarks online, noting that specified behaviour tin pb to transgression charges, schoolhouse discipline, and "long-term consequences that travel idiosyncratic for life."

"Every menace is treated arsenic credible," the sheriff’s bureau said. "We instrumentality each threat, online oregon otherwise, earnestly and volition enactment swiftly."

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The sheriff’s bureau added it remains committed to protecting schoolhouse communities and thanked residents for reporting concerning activity.

"We are grateful for a assemblage that looks retired for 1 another," they said.