DELTONA, Fla. -- The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office arrested 12-year-old
Austin Palladino after he threatened another student with a pocket knife Friday
afternoon at Galaxy
Middle School in Deltona.
The seventh-grader was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon,
which is a third-degree felony.
After his arrest, Palladino explained to the school
resource deputy that he had been in a confrontation with a 13-year-old student
Thursday. That prompted him to take the knife to school on Friday for
protection. When it appeared to Palladino that another confrontation was about
to start, he retrieved the knife from his backpack and secured it in his
pocket. When the victim approached him, he pulled it out and displayed the 3”
blade. A teacher heard Palladino tell the other student “I’m going
to finish you!” The teacher quickly stepped in and confiscated the knife.
There were no injuries.
Palladino was transported to the Volusia
Regional Juvenile
Detention Center
in Daytona Beach.
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