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

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

In an announcement Saturday, the Lee County Sheriff’s Workplace said it had discovered earlier that day of a "threatening textual content message" sent by a student at an elementary college.

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

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

“This pupil’s conduct is sickening, especially after the recent tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno mentioned in a press release, noting that the risk got here simply days after the deadly school shooting at Robb Elementary School left 19 students and two academics lifeless.

“Proper now is just not the time to behave like a bit delinquent. It’s not funny,” he stated. “This child made a pretend threat, and now he’s experiencing actual consequences.”

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

The remark came as authorities in Uvalde face mounting criticism over their response to the Could 24 school shooting after it got here to light that they waited roughly an hour for backup instead of immediately transferring in on the gunman.

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