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 textual content message threatening to hold out a mass taking pictures, authorities stated.

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

It said its native faculty threat enforcement workforce was instantly notified and started investigating. The ten-year-old boy was interviewed and charged later with "making a written menace to conduct a mass shooting," the sheriff's workplace stated.

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

“This scholar’s conduct is sickening, particularly after the latest tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said in a press release, noting that the threat got here simply days after the deadly college capturing at Robb Elementary College left 19 college students and two academics dead.

“Right now shouldn't be the time to act like a little bit delinquent. It’s not humorous,” he said. “This youngster made a pretend menace, and now he’s experiencing actual penalties.”

Marceno said his group “didn’t hesitate one second...NOT ONE SECOND,” to investigate the incident.

The comment came 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 instantly transferring in on the gunman.

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