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 shooting, authorities stated.

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

It said its local school risk enforcement staff was instantly notified and started 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 stated.

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

“This student’s conduct is sickening, particularly after the recent tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said in an announcement, noting that the menace came just days after the lethal faculty taking pictures at Robb Elementary Faculty left 19 students and two lecturers useless.

“Right now isn't the time to act like a little bit delinquent. It’s not humorous,” he mentioned. “This baby made a faux menace, and now he’s experiencing real penalties.”

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

The remark came as authorities in Uvalde face mounting criticism over their response to the Might 24 college taking pictures after it came to mild that they waited roughly an hour for backup as an alternative of immediately shifting in on the gunman.

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