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 a press release Saturday, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office stated it had discovered earlier that day of a "threatening textual content message" despatched by a pupil at an elementary faculty.

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

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

“This scholar’s behavior is sickening, especially after the latest tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno stated in a statement, noting that the risk came just days after the deadly faculty shooting at Robb Elementary College left 19 college students and two academics dead.

“Right now is just not the time to act like slightly delinquent. It’s not humorous,” he mentioned. “This youngster made a pretend menace, and now he’s experiencing real penalties.”

Marceno stated his crew “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 May 24 school capturing after it got here to light that they waited roughly an hour for backup as an alternative of instantly shifting in on the gunman.

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