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 shooting, authorities mentioned.

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

It said its local faculty menace enforcement group was instantly notified and began investigating. The 10-year-old boy was interviewed and charged later with "making a written menace to conduct a mass capturing," the sheriff's office mentioned.

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

“This student’s behavior is sickening, especially after the latest tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said in a statement, noting that the risk came simply days after the deadly faculty shooting at Robb Elementary School left 19 students and two teachers useless.

“Right now just isn't the time to behave like a little bit delinquent. It’s not funny,” he said. “This little one made a faux threat, and now he’s experiencing actual consequences.”

Marceno said 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 school capturing after it came to light that they waited roughly an hour for backup as an alternative of immediately transferring in on the gunman.

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