J.A.W. v. State

KHOUZAM, Judge.

J.A.W., a juvenile, appeals his disposition for sending written threats to kill or do bodily injury under section 836.10, Florida Statutes (2014). He was found to have committed this delinquent act after he posted on Twitter that he was going to *143“shoot up” his school. Because J.A.W.’s threats were not sent directly to the alleged victims or their families as prohibited under the plain language of section 836.10, we are constrained to reverse.

The record shows that J.A.W., a student at Sarasota High School, posted the following tweets over a span of several days:

• “can’t WAIT to…