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 textual content message threatening to hold out a mass shooting, authorities stated.

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

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

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

“This student’s behavior is sickening, particularly after the latest tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno stated in a statement, noting that the risk got here simply days after the deadly college capturing at Robb Elementary College left 19 college students and two academics dead.

“Proper now will not be the time to behave like slightly delinquent. It’s not funny,” he stated. “This youngster 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 came as authorities in Uvalde face mounting criticism over their response to the Could 24 college taking pictures after it got here to light that they waited roughly an hour for backup instead of instantly moving in on the gunman.

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