A teenager was arrested Friday after he posted online a video of himself displaying a gun outside Edina High School and making a threat toward a specific person, police said Friday.
The 17-year-old was apprehended in Minneapolis and booked into the Hennepin County Juvenile Detention Center on Friday morning.
"Out of an abundance of caution," a statement from police read, the school district moved the high school and the adjoining Valley View Middle School to virtual instruction Friday.
Police said the teen is neither a current nor a former Edina High School student.
Charges against him were pending. Until then, his identity is being withheld by law enforcement.
According to police:
At about 8 p.m. Thursday, police learned that the teenager recorded a Snapchat video of himself in a vehicle in the high school parking lot earlier in the day with a semiautomatic handgun and an extended magazine in his lap.
The caption on the video said, "Come outside [expletive]." The video also captured doors to the school. He then drove off.
