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Administrators at Three Oaks Elementary school confiscated a "Killing List" from two fifth-grade students on Tuesday.

The written list contained both student and adult names, according to an incident report filed to the district by Assistant Principal Peggy Leis.

The students' parents were notified, as was the Lee County Sheriff's Deputy stationed at Three Oaks Middle School.

District spokesman Joe Donzelli said the threat was not credible, but is still being taken seriously.

A Cape Coral teenager accused of pouring a bottle of urine on another student's head was Tasered Monday during a struggle with a Student Resource Officer at Ida Baker High School in Cape Coral.

Cape Coral police officer Gene Raphael was attempting to arrest 16-year-old Luke Adam Arnold on a battery charge Monday morning when the teenager became combative and refused to comply with the officer's commands to calm down, reports said.

He is the second student Tasered in Lee County schools in the past four months. In early December SROs Tasered a special needs student at Cypress Lakes High School in Fort Myers after school employees could not subdue him.

FL. SCHOOL BOARD SAYS SCHOOL AID  - NOT GUILTY

SWAT Team Shoots 'Armed' Fl. 8th-Grader

LONGWOOD, Fla. Jan 13, 2006 — An eighth-grader was shot and wounded by a SWAT team officer in a school bathroom Friday after he pulled out a pellet gun that resembled a real weapon and later raised it at a deputy, authorities said.

Sheriff Don Eslinger said the 15-year-old boy brought the gun to Milwee Middle School in his backpack. Eslinger said two students saw it and one persuaded the other to report it, causing a scuffle.

The alleged gunman ordered one of the students into a closet, dimmed the lights and ran from the classroom. He then went around the campus carrying the weapon, Eslinger said. Deputies eventually isolated him in a restroom, and the school was evacuated.

Eslinger said negotiators tried unsuccessfully to start a dialogue with the boy, identified as Christopher David Penley.

"He did not respond," Eslinger said. "He refused to even comment. All he said was his first name. He did not drop the firearm."

When the boy raised the gun at a deputy, he shot the youth, the sheriff said.

Penley was taken to a hospital, where he was on "advanced life support," the sheriff said.

"He was suicidal," Eslinger said. "During this standoff, and during the chase, the student said he was going to kill himself or die." At one point, the boy held the gun to his own neck.

No one else was injured. The sheriff's office confirmed later that the weapon was a pellet gun fashioned to look like a 9mm handgun. The tip of the gun had been painted black, covering brightly colored markings that would have indicated it was nonlethal.

Investigators did not know why Penley brought the weapon to school. "We are looking into his past, and all kinds of different issues possibly." Eslinger said.

Classes were canceled for the rest of the day, and frantic parents arrived to pick up their children from the 1,100-student public school in suburban Orlando.

"When I saw the news, I just couldn't believe this was my daughter's school. I came right away," said Anil Santos, whose daughter, Aleister, is in eighth grade.