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 carry out a mass capturing, authorities mentioned.

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

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

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

“This pupil’s conduct is sickening, especially after the latest tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said in a press release, noting that the menace came just days after the deadly college taking pictures at Robb Elementary College left 19 college students and two teachers dead.

“Proper now just isn't the time to act like slightly delinquent. It’s not humorous,” he mentioned. “This little one made a pretend menace, and now he’s experiencing real consequences.”

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

The remark got here as authorities in Uvalde face mounting criticism over their response to the Might 24 faculty taking pictures after it got here to light that they waited roughly an hour for backup as a substitute of immediately shifting in on the gunman.

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