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

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

In a press release Saturday, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office said it had realized earlier that day of a "threatening textual content message" despatched by a scholar at an elementary school.

It mentioned its local faculty menace enforcement group was instantly notified and started investigating. The 10-year-old boy was interviewed and charged later with "making a written risk to conduct a mass capturing," the sheriff's office said.

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

“This pupil’s conduct is sickening, particularly after the recent tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno stated in a statement, noting that the threat got here simply days after the deadly college shooting at Robb Elementary Faculty left 19 students and two lecturers useless.

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

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

The remark got here as authorities in Uvalde face mounting criticism over their response to the May 24 faculty capturing after it came to gentle 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 Information Digital based in London.