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

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

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

It mentioned its native college threat enforcement staff was immediately notified and started 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 stated.

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

“This student’s habits is sickening, particularly after the recent tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno mentioned in a statement, noting that the risk came simply days after the deadly college capturing at Robb Elementary School left 19 college students and two lecturers lifeless.

“Right now is not the time to act like a bit of delinquent. It’s not humorous,” he said. “This child made a fake menace, and now he’s experiencing real consequences.”

Marceno stated his workforce “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 shooting after it came to light that they waited roughly an hour for backup as an alternative of instantly transferring in on the gunman.

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