Summary
Authorities in Riverview, Florida say a teenage girl used an AI-altered image — an edited screenshot appearing to be an Instagram post — to falsely link her ex-boyfriend to a shooting threat at Riverview High School. School administrators received an email containing the screenshot; deputies determined the student depicted did not make the post and investigators linked the image to the suspect.
Detectives say the suspect admitted to sending the email and to knowing the image had been altered using AI. The teen (reported in the article as 15 or 16 years old) was arrested and charged with written or electronic threat to conduct a mass shooting or act of terrorism, unlawful use of a two-way communications device, and disrupting a school; the sheriff’s office has not said whether she will be charged as a juvenile or an adult.