Zoo Miami closes after deputies confirm ‘swatting call’
Zoo Miami is currently closed after deputies confirmed that a “swatting call” was made Friday afternoon.
The scandal related to Miami-Dade Republican Executive Committee Secretary Abel Carvajal’s WhatsApp group hit home for Republican Florida Rep. Juan Carlos Porras, who graduated from Florida International University.
Dariel Gonzalez’s alleged posts on a Miami-Dade County Republican Party’s WhatsApp group cost him his position at the Merrick House in Coral Gables.
Detectives with the Florida International University Police Department were working with local, state, and federal law enforcement to investigate alleged threats of violence in a Miami-Dade County Republican Party’s WhatsApp group.
Josephine Simmons Peters, also known as Christian, is the 12-year-old student who wrote a 13-step plan for a shooting at Southwestern Middle School, according to the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office.