Florida fifth grader arrested, charged with threatening a mass shooting, police say

A fifth grade scholar in Florida was arrested over the weekend and charged with sending a text message threatening to carry out a mass taking pictures, authorities stated.

In a press release Saturday, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office mentioned it had learned earlier that day of a "threatening text message" despatched by a student at an elementary faculty.

It mentioned its native faculty menace enforcement staff was instantly notified and began investigating. The 10-year-old boy was interviewed and charged later with "making a written risk to conduct a mass taking pictures," the sheriff's workplace said.

In video shared by authorities, the boy could be seen being led right into a police vehicle.

“This scholar’s behavior is sickening, especially after the current tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno stated in a press release, noting that the menace got here just days after the lethal college shooting at Robb Elementary Faculty left 19 students and two lecturers useless.

“Right now shouldn't be the time to behave like just a little delinquent. It’s not funny,” he stated. “This little one made a fake menace, and now he’s experiencing actual penalties.”

Marceno stated his staff “didn’t hesitate one second...NOT ONE SECOND,” to analyze the incident.

The comment got here as authorities in Uvalde face mounting criticism over their response to the Might 24 college taking pictures after it came to mild that they waited roughly an hour for backup as a substitute of immediately moving in on the gunman.

Chantal Da Silva is a breaking information editor for NBC Information Digital based mostly in London.