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 hold out a mass capturing, authorities mentioned.

In a press release Saturday, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office stated it had realized earlier that day of a "threatening text message" sent by a student at an elementary college.

It said its native school menace enforcement crew 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 shooting," the sheriff's workplace mentioned.

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

“This scholar’s conduct is sickening, particularly after the current tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno stated in a press release, noting that the risk came simply days after the lethal faculty capturing at Robb Elementary Faculty left 19 college students and two teachers dead.

“Proper now is just not the time to behave like slightly delinquent. It’s not funny,” he stated. “This baby made a pretend risk, and now he’s experiencing real consequences.”

Marceno said his workforce “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 Could 24 school taking pictures after it came to gentle 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 News Digital based mostly in London.