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

A fifth grade pupil in Florida was arrested over the weekend and charged with sending a textual content message threatening to hold out a mass shooting, authorities mentioned.

In a statement Saturday, the Lee County Sheriff’s Workplace said it had realized earlier that day of a "threatening textual content message" despatched by a scholar at an elementary college.

It stated its native college risk enforcement team was immediately notified and started investigating. The 10-year-old boy was interviewed and charged later with "making a written risk to conduct a mass capturing," 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 latest tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno stated in a statement, noting that the menace got here just days after the lethal school taking pictures at Robb Elementary College left 19 students and two teachers useless.

“Proper now is just not the time to behave like slightly delinquent. It’s not funny,” he mentioned. “This youngster made a pretend menace, and now he’s experiencing real penalties.”

Marceno mentioned 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 Might 24 college shooting after it got here to mild that they waited roughly an hour for backup as an alternative of immediately moving in on the gunman.

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