Florida fifth grader arrested, charged with threatening a mass capturing, 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 shooting, authorities mentioned.

In a statement Saturday, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office stated it had learned earlier that day of a "threatening text message" sent by a scholar at an elementary college.

It mentioned its local school risk enforcement group was instantly notified and started investigating. The ten-year-old boy was interviewed and charged later with "making a written threat to conduct a mass shooting," the sheriff's workplace stated.

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

“This student’s behavior is sickening, particularly after the latest tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said in a statement, noting that the threat got here just days after the deadly faculty taking pictures at Robb Elementary School left 19 students and two academics dead.

“Proper now will not be the time to behave like a bit delinquent. It’s not funny,” he stated. “This little one made a fake risk, and now he’s experiencing actual consequences.”

Marceno mentioned his workforce “didn’t hesitate one second...NOT ONE SECOND,” to investigate the incident.

The remark got here as authorities in Uvalde face mounting criticism over their response to the Might 24 school capturing after it got here to mild that they waited roughly an hour for backup instead of immediately transferring in on the gunman.

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