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

A fifth grade student in Florida was arrested over the weekend and charged with sending a text message threatening to hold out a mass shooting, authorities stated.

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

It stated its local school risk enforcement workforce was instantly notified and began 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 current tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno mentioned in a press release, noting that the risk came just days after the deadly school capturing at Robb Elementary Faculty left 19 college students and two academics useless.

“Right now shouldn't be the time to act like a bit delinquent. It’s not funny,” he said. “This little one made a fake menace, and now he’s experiencing actual consequences.”

Marceno said his team “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 Could 24 college capturing after it got here to mild that they waited roughly an hour for backup instead of immediately moving in on the gunman.

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