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

A fifth grade student in Florida was arrested over the weekend and charged with sending a textual content message threatening to hold out a mass taking pictures, authorities mentioned.

In an announcement Saturday, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office said it had learned earlier that day of a "threatening textual content message" despatched by a pupil at an elementary faculty.

It stated its native school menace enforcement staff was instantly notified and started investigating. The ten-year-old boy was interviewed and charged later with "making a written threat to conduct a mass taking pictures," the sheriff's workplace said.

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

“This student’s behavior is sickening, particularly after the latest tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno stated in an announcement, noting that the menace came simply days after the deadly college capturing at Robb Elementary School left 19 students and two academics useless.

“Right now is just not the time to behave like a little delinquent. It’s not humorous,” he mentioned. “This little one made a faux menace, and now he’s experiencing real penalties.”

Marceno stated his staff “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 faculty taking pictures after it came to mild that they waited roughly an hour for backup instead of instantly shifting in on the gunman.

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