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 taking pictures, authorities stated.

In a statement Saturday, the Lee County Sheriff’s Workplace stated it had discovered earlier that day of a "threatening text message" despatched by a scholar at an elementary faculty.

It said its native school menace enforcement team was instantly notified and began investigating. The ten-year-old boy was interviewed and charged later with "making a written threat to conduct a mass capturing," the sheriff's workplace mentioned.

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

“This student’s habits is sickening, especially after the latest tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno mentioned in a statement, noting that the threat got here just days after the deadly school capturing at Robb Elementary College left 19 college students and two academics useless.

“Right now will not be the time to behave like slightly delinquent. It’s not funny,” he said. “This baby made a faux menace, and now he’s experiencing real consequences.”

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

The comment got here as authorities in Uvalde face mounting criticism over their response to the May 24 faculty shooting 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 information editor for NBC Information Digital based mostly in London.