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

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

In an announcement Saturday, the Lee County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned it had discovered earlier that day of a "threatening text message" sent by a scholar at an elementary school.

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

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

“This scholar’s habits is sickening, especially after the latest tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said in a press release, noting that the threat came just days after the deadly faculty capturing at Robb Elementary College left 19 college students and two academics dead.

“Right now will not be the time to act like a bit of delinquent. It’s not humorous,” he said. “This baby made a fake menace, and now he’s experiencing real consequences.”

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

The comment got here as authorities in Uvalde face mounting criticism over their response to the May 24 faculty taking pictures after it got here to mild that they waited roughly an hour for backup instead of instantly transferring in on the gunman.

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