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 textual content message threatening to hold out a mass taking pictures, authorities mentioned.

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

It mentioned its local college threat enforcement crew was immediately 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 office mentioned.

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

“This student’s habits is sickening, especially after the latest tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno mentioned in a press release, noting that the menace got here simply days after the lethal school shooting at Robb Elementary School left 19 students and two academics lifeless.

“Proper now is not the time to act like slightly delinquent. It’s not humorous,” he said. “This youngster made a fake menace, and now he’s experiencing real penalties.”

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

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

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