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

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

In a statement Saturday, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office mentioned it had learned earlier that day of a "threatening textual content message" sent by a student at an elementary school.

It stated its local school menace enforcement crew was immediately notified and began investigating. The ten-year-old boy was interviewed and charged later with "making a written threat to conduct a mass shooting," the sheriff's office mentioned.

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

“This scholar’s habits is sickening, especially after the latest tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno mentioned in an announcement, noting that the menace got here simply days after the deadly faculty capturing at Robb Elementary School left 19 college students and two lecturers dead.

“Right now shouldn't be the time to behave like slightly delinquent. It’s not humorous,” he said. “This baby made a fake risk, and now he’s experiencing real penalties.”

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

The remark got here as authorities in Uvalde face mounting criticism over their response to the May 24 college taking pictures after it got here to gentle that they waited roughly an hour for backup as a substitute of immediately transferring in on the gunman.

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