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 carry out a mass taking pictures, authorities stated.

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

It mentioned its local faculty threat enforcement staff was immediately notified and began investigating. The 10-year-old boy was interviewed and charged later with "making a written risk to conduct a mass taking pictures," the sheriff's workplace said.

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

“This student’s conduct is sickening, particularly after the current tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno stated in an announcement, noting that the threat got here simply days after the lethal school taking pictures at Robb Elementary College left 19 college students and two lecturers useless.

“Proper now will not be the time to behave like a bit of delinquent. It’s not humorous,” he mentioned. “This youngster made a fake menace, and now he’s experiencing actual penalties.”

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

The comment came as authorities in Uvalde face mounting criticism over their response to the Might 24 school shooting after it came to mild that they waited roughly an hour for backup as a substitute of instantly shifting in on the gunman.

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