Florida fifth grader arrested, charged with threatening a mass taking pictures, 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 press release Saturday, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office stated it had realized earlier that day of a "threatening text message" despatched by a scholar at an elementary college.

It mentioned its local faculty menace enforcement workforce was immediately notified and began 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 mentioned.

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

“This student’s behavior is sickening, especially after the current tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno stated in an announcement, noting that the risk got here simply days after the lethal school shooting at Robb Elementary Faculty left 19 students and two lecturers dead.

“Proper now will not be the time to behave like somewhat delinquent. It’s not funny,” he mentioned. “This child made a faux menace, and now he’s experiencing real consequences.”

Marceno mentioned his workforce “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 Might 24 school capturing after it came to mild 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 Information Digital based in London.