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

A fifth grade scholar in Florida was arrested over the weekend and charged with sending a textual content message threatening to carry out a mass capturing, authorities said.

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

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

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

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

“Right now isn't the time to act like just a little delinquent. It’s not funny,” he stated. “This youngster made a pretend threat, and now he’s experiencing real penalties.”

Marceno stated his staff “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 school taking pictures after it came to mild that they waited roughly an hour for backup as a substitute of instantly transferring in on the gunman.

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