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

In a press release Saturday, the Lee County Sheriff’s Workplace said it had discovered earlier that day of a "threatening textual content message" sent by a scholar at an elementary college.

It said its local college risk enforcement team was immediately notified and started investigating. The 10-year-old boy was interviewed and charged later with "making a written threat to conduct a mass shooting," the sheriff's workplace said.

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

“This scholar’s habits is sickening, particularly after the current tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno stated in a statement, noting that the menace came simply days after the deadly college capturing at Robb Elementary College left 19 students and two teachers useless.

“Right now is not the time to behave like somewhat delinquent. It’s not funny,” he mentioned. “This little one made a fake menace, and now he’s experiencing real consequences.”

Marceno stated 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 Could 24 school shooting after it got here to light 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 mostly in London.