MIAMI – A student was in the custody of Miami-Dade corrections on Saturday morning after he threatened to commit mass murder at Booker T. Washington Senior High School in Miami’s Overtown neighborhood, records show.
Andre Eduardo Garcia was facing a charge of written threats to kill or cause bodily harm, a second-degree felony punishable with up to 15 years in prison.
Garcia, 18, has been at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center since Thursday afternoon, county inmate records showed on Saturday.
Police officers arrested Garcia after a witness reported reading the threats that he allegedly wrote in a notebook. In one, Garcia allegedly drew a stick figure shooting a gun and wrote, “Everyone deserves to die.”
When Garcia appeared in bond court on Friday afternoon, a prosecutor said police officers learned Garcia had become overly negative and aggressive.
Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Mindy S. Glazer ordered that Garcia receive a mental health evaluation and treatment. County inmate records show he was set to go to Southern Winds Hospital in Hialeah. Glazer set his bond at $7,500.
Local 10 News Assignment Desk Editor Wilson Louis contributed to this report.