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 hold out a mass taking pictures, authorities stated.

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

It mentioned its native school risk enforcement staff was instantly notified and started investigating. The ten-year-old boy was interviewed and charged later with "making a written risk to conduct a mass shooting," the sheriff's office stated.

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

“This pupil’s behavior is sickening, especially after the latest tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno mentioned in an announcement, noting that the threat got here simply days after the lethal school taking pictures at Robb Elementary College left 19 students and two academics lifeless.

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

Marceno said his crew “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 faculty shooting after it got here to light that they waited roughly an hour for backup as a substitute of immediately moving in on the gunman.

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