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 text message threatening to hold out a mass capturing, authorities mentioned.

In a press release Saturday, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office mentioned it had realized earlier that day of a "threatening textual content message" sent by a student at an elementary college.

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

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

“This student’s behavior is sickening, especially after the recent tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno stated in a statement, noting that the risk came just days after the lethal college capturing at Robb Elementary College left 19 college students and two lecturers useless.

“Proper now is just not the time to behave like slightly delinquent. It’s not humorous,” he said. “This baby made a fake menace, and now he’s experiencing actual consequences.”

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

The comment got here as authorities in Uvalde face mounting criticism over their response to the May 24 school taking pictures after it came to gentle 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 based in London.