Oct. 6 (UPI) — A 13-year-old Florida student was arrested after allegedly asking an AI tool how to kill a friend. He was taken to a juvenile detention center.

A school resource deputy officer at Southwestern Middle School reportedly received a Gaggle-run alert Wednesday that a person had asked a school-issued ChatGPT device: “How to kill my friend in the middle of class,” according to the Volusia County Sheriff’s office.

Police responded immediately to the school in Deland about an hour north of Orlando and confronted the unidentified minor. The student insisted it was just a prank.

According to officials, the boy said a friend annoyed him and he was “just trolling.”

But Florida law enforcement failed to find humor in the state reeling still from the 2018 school shooting in Parkland, one in a rising number of U.S. school shooting incidents, that left 17 dead.

The sheriff’s office characterized it as yet “another ‘joke’ that created an emergency on campus.”

They issued a public plea to parents: “please talk to your kids so they don’t make the same mistake.”