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 carry out a mass shooting, authorities mentioned.

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

It mentioned its local college menace enforcement workforce was instantly notified and started investigating. The 10-year-old boy was interviewed and charged later with "making a written threat to conduct a mass shooting," the sheriff's office stated.

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

“This scholar’s conduct is sickening, particularly after the recent tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno stated in a press release, noting that the menace got here just days after the deadly faculty capturing at Robb Elementary School left 19 students and two lecturers useless.

“Right now is not the time to behave like slightly delinquent. It’s not funny,” he said. “This little one made a faux risk, and now he’s experiencing real consequences.”

Marceno stated his team “didn’t hesitate one second...NOT ONE SECOND,” to research the incident.

The remark came as authorities in Uvalde face mounting criticism over their response to the May 24 school capturing after it came to gentle that they waited roughly an hour for backup as an alternative of immediately transferring in on the gunman.

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