Shooting scare at Mainland High School was a ‘cruel prank’ by several students, police say

A shooting scare on Friday at Mainland High School that turned out to be a false alarm drew scores of Daytona Beach police officers to the campus, who found nothing after each room in every building was searched. According to a police statement issued Sunday on Facebook, detectives’ investigation revealed the “false alarm” appears to have been the work of several students who capitalized on a threat written in a bathroom stall the day prior, all to play a prank. Though publicly unidentified, those students now face pending felony charges, police said.