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 capturing, authorities mentioned.

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

It stated its native faculty menace enforcement crew was immediately notified and started investigating. The 10-year-old boy was interviewed and charged later with "making a written risk to conduct a mass shooting," the sheriff's office mentioned.

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

“This pupil’s habits is sickening, especially after the recent tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno stated in a statement, noting that the risk came just days after the deadly faculty taking pictures at Robb Elementary College left 19 college students and two teachers dead.

“Right now is just not the time to behave like somewhat delinquent. It’s not humorous,” he stated. “This child made a fake threat, and now he’s experiencing real consequences.”

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

The comment got here as authorities in Uvalde face mounting criticism over their response to the May 24 school capturing after it got here to light that they waited roughly an hour for backup as a substitute of instantly shifting in on the gunman.

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