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

A fifth grade scholar 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 Office stated it had discovered earlier that day of a "threatening textual content message" sent by a scholar at an elementary faculty.

It stated its local school menace enforcement crew 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 capturing," the sheriff's workplace mentioned.

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

“This pupil’s conduct is sickening, particularly after the current tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said in an announcement, noting that the threat came simply days after the deadly college capturing at Robb Elementary School left 19 college students and two academics useless.

“Proper now isn't the time to act like a bit of delinquent. It’s not funny,” he mentioned. “This child made a pretend risk, and now he’s experiencing real consequences.”

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

The remark came as authorities in Uvalde face mounting criticism over their response to the May 24 school taking pictures after it got here to gentle that they waited roughly an hour for backup as an alternative of immediately shifting in on the gunman.

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