A 12-year-old Florida girl has been charged with threatening to kill another girl during an argument over a boy.

The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office said the victim’s older sister reported the threats, saying her younger sibling “had been having issues with other juvenile siblings.”

The sheriff’s office said the suspect, the victim, and a third girl argued about a boy in a Snapchat group chat. The suspect allegedly first proposed a fight and then sent a series of audio recordings saying “I will literally blow your brains out” and “I will literally f****** kill you if you call the the cops.”

The audio recordings were followed by a video showing the suspect walking toward the victim’s house.

The victim later provided screenshots and a video recording to deputies.

The suspect initially told deputies she didn’t have a Snapchat account, but deputies found that she did when she agreed to give them access to her phone. She not only had the app installed, but she was logged into the account seen on the screenshots the victim provided.

At that point, the suspect admitted that she’d been in the Snapchat group with the other two girls but denied sending the voice messages. The deputies said, however, that the suspect’s “voice tone, pitch, and inflection” were consistent with the messages sent to the victim.

The girl was charged with written or electronic threats to kill and handed over to the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice after being processed into jail. The state department released her into the custody of her parents.

“The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office always takes any threat seriously, no matter how old you are. And if you threaten to kill someone, even if it’s over something as trivial as arguing over a boy, we will arrest you,” said Sheriff Rick Staly. “I ask parents to be the Sheriff in your home and teach your children that threatening to kill someone is never OK.

“Teach them how to handle disagreements, especially in relationships. Your guidance and teachings will last them a lifetime. If you don’t, we will, but it’s not what we want to do. I commend the victim’s sibling for watching out for her younger sister and contacting us. She saw something and said something, which is always the right thing to do.”

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