An 11-year-old boy was perp walked into a Florida jail after he allegedly wrote a ‘kill list’ targeting others at his school.
Karson Curry was marched into a cell on Monday after he threatened Highbanks Learning Center in Deltona, the Volusia County sheriff said.
The boy, whose arms were handcuffed behind his back, hung his head down as he was led from a deputy’s cruiser and into the station.
Police determined Curry does not have access to weapons, but still moved to make an example out of him.
He now faces a felony charge of making a written threat to kill.
Volusia County Sheriff Michael Chitwood has a history of perp walking children who threatened their schools and seemingly has no intention of stopping.
At least eight children, including three 11-year-olds, were arrested and publicly shamed by the department with an online perp walk in the last two months.
Sheriff Chitwood hopes the public displays of discipline will ‘stress to students and parents that these types of threats will result in felony charges,’ the department said.
Curry is a student at Highbanks Learning Center, an educational program which provides learning services in a ‘highly restrictive’ environment to select students in grades six through 12.
The program places an emphasis on modifying behavior and social skills, according to the county school district’s website.
Students are assigned to the learning center by district officials and superintendents based on their individual educational needs.
It is unclear who Curry allegedly targeted on the list and if he will face any disciplinary action from the educational center itself.
The Daily Mail has approached the school, district and sheriff’s office for comment.
Curry’s arrest comes just two weeks after an 11-year-old at another learning center in Volusia County was taken into custody over an alleged kill list.
Aahriyanna Reed was accused of jotting down the names at her desk at Riverview Learning Center on October 27.
Although she told deputies she was ‘just playing,’ she was arrested and perp walked from the police cruiser and into a jail cell.
The young girl was charged with a second degree felony of making a written threat to kill and for violating her probation, the sheriff’s office said.
Similarly, Jesse McIntyre and Caiden Sanford, also 11, were both arrested in recent weeks for threatening their respective schools.
McIntyre allegedly posted a TikTok threatening to shoot up Campbell Middle School in Daytona Beach. He mentioned staff members in the comments of his video.
Sheriff’s deputies arrested the boy at his family home on October 5.
Although they determined that he – like Curry – did not have access to weapons, police did take him into custody.
Sanford, in September, wrote a ‘kill list’ on his desk at Southwestern Middle School, authorities said.
He allegedly penned the list because he was ‘angry and having a bad day’.
At the time of his arrest, which was also featured in a perp walk shared on the sheriff’s department Facebook page, officials suggested school threats had become too normalized in society.
‘If you’re tired of this, imagine how the 99 percent of students, parents, teachers and school staff are feeling,’ the department wrote.
The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office has perp walked several other students in recent weeks, including 13, 14 and 15-year-olds.
Some threatened online that they would open fire on their schools, while others offered detail plans with specific dates for their alleged attacks.
One student threatened to ‘hurt someone badly’ in a social media post accompanied by two gun emojis.
Another even went as far as filming himself loading a gun and then sending the footage, accompanied by a rap song about killing, to fellow students.
The video left multiple students too afraid to turn up to school.
There were 2,058 threats of school violence reported during the 2024-25 academic year, according to national data from the Educator’s School Safety Network.
The number of threats more than four times greater than the actual number of violent incidents recorded during the school year.
Data shows the number of violent threats in a given school year has decreased longitudinally, but the educational nonprofit noted the rate of violent incidents is still higher before the coronavirus pandemic.
Experts suggested the decline in violent threats may stem from the ‘implementation of more severe consequences’ for making such threats.
But the Educator’s School Safety Network also said it is ‘much more likely that the number of threats received has not actually declined, but rather that threats are considered commonplace and therefore less likely to be reported.’
