Florida fifth grader arrested, charged with threatening a mass taking pictures, 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 shooting, authorities mentioned.

In a statement Saturday, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office said it had discovered earlier that day of a "threatening text message" sent by a pupil at an elementary school.

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

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

“This scholar’s behavior is sickening, especially after the current tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said in a press release, noting that the menace got here just days after the deadly faculty capturing at Robb Elementary Faculty left 19 college students and two lecturers dead.

“Right now is not the time to behave like a bit of delinquent. It’s not humorous,” he mentioned. “This child made a pretend risk, and now he’s experiencing actual penalties.”

Marceno stated 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 Could 24 school taking pictures after it came to gentle that they waited roughly an hour for backup as an alternative of instantly moving in on the gunman.

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