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 capturing, authorities stated.

In an announcement Saturday, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office stated it had learned earlier that day of a "threatening textual content message" despatched by a scholar at an elementary school.

It mentioned its native college risk enforcement workforce was instantly notified and started investigating. The ten-year-old boy was interviewed and charged later with "making a written threat to conduct a mass taking pictures," the sheriff's office said.

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

“This pupil’s habits is sickening, particularly after the recent tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno mentioned in an announcement, noting that the threat came simply days after the deadly faculty shooting at Robb Elementary Faculty left 19 students and two lecturers useless.

“Right now is just not the time to behave like a bit of delinquent. It’s not funny,” he stated. “This little one made a pretend menace, and now he’s experiencing actual penalties.”

Marceno mentioned 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 May 24 college capturing after it got here to gentle 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 News Digital primarily based in London.