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 carry out a mass shooting, authorities said.

In an announcement Saturday, the Lee County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned it had learned earlier that day of a "threatening textual content message" sent by a pupil at an elementary faculty.

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

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

“This scholar’s conduct is sickening, particularly after the recent tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said in a press release, noting that the threat got here just days after the lethal college capturing at Robb Elementary College left 19 students and two academics dead.

“Right now will not be the time to behave like a bit delinquent. It’s not humorous,” he mentioned. “This little one made a faux menace, and now he’s experiencing actual consequences.”

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

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

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