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

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

In a press release Saturday, the Lee County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned it had realized earlier that day of a "threatening textual content message" sent by a pupil at an elementary college.

It said its native faculty threat enforcement team was immediately notified and began investigating. The ten-year-old boy was interviewed and charged later with "making a written threat 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 pupil’s conduct is sickening, particularly after the current tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno mentioned in a press release, noting that the threat got here simply days after the lethal faculty capturing at Robb Elementary Faculty left 19 students and two lecturers dead.

“Proper now will not be the time to behave like a little bit delinquent. It’s not funny,” he said. “This child made a pretend menace, and now he’s experiencing actual consequences.”

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

The remark got here as authorities in Uvalde face mounting criticism over their response to the Could 24 college shooting after it got here to mild that they waited roughly an hour for backup as a substitute of immediately transferring in on the gunman.

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