Florida fifth grader arrested, charged with threatening a mass capturing, police say

A fifth grade scholar in Florida was arrested over the weekend and charged with sending a text message threatening to carry out a mass taking pictures, authorities mentioned.

In an announcement Saturday, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office said it had learned earlier that day of a "threatening text message" despatched by a student at an elementary college.

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

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

“This pupil’s habits is sickening, especially after the current tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno stated in an announcement, noting that the risk got here simply days after the lethal faculty taking pictures at Robb Elementary School left 19 college students and two academics dead.

“Right now is not the time to behave like a little delinquent. It’s not funny,” he mentioned. “This baby made a faux menace, and now he’s experiencing actual penalties.”

Marceno mentioned his team “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 college capturing after it came to mild that they waited roughly an hour for backup as a substitute of instantly moving in on the gunman.

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