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 textual content message threatening to hold out a mass taking pictures, authorities said.

In an announcement Saturday, the Lee County Sheriff’s Workplace stated it had realized earlier that day of a "threatening text message" sent by a scholar at an elementary school.

It said its native faculty threat enforcement group was immediately notified and started investigating. The ten-year-old boy was interviewed and charged later with "making a written menace to conduct a mass shooting," 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, especially after the recent tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said in a press release, noting that the threat got here simply days after the deadly faculty taking pictures at Robb Elementary College left 19 students and two lecturers dead.

“Proper now isn't the time to act like just a little delinquent. It’s not humorous,” he said. “This baby made a pretend risk, and now he’s experiencing actual penalties.”

Marceno said his team “didn’t hesitate one second...NOT ONE SECOND,” to investigate 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 an alternative of immediately shifting in on the gunman.

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