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 capturing, authorities said.

In a press release Saturday, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office mentioned it had realized earlier that day of a "threatening text message" despatched by a pupil at an elementary faculty.

It said its native college threat enforcement group was instantly notified and began investigating. The 10-year-old boy was interviewed and charged later with "making a written risk to conduct a mass capturing," the sheriff's workplace said.

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

“This pupil’s conduct is sickening, especially after the current tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said in a press release, noting that the menace came just days after the lethal faculty taking pictures at Robb Elementary School left 19 college students and two academics useless.

“Proper now isn't the time to act like a little delinquent. It’s not humorous,” he mentioned. “This youngster made a fake menace, and now he’s experiencing actual penalties.”

Marceno stated his workforce “didn’t hesitate one second...NOT ONE SECOND,” to analyze the incident.

The comment got here as authorities in Uvalde face mounting criticism over their response to the May 24 college taking pictures after it got here to light 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.