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 text message threatening to hold out a mass taking pictures, authorities stated.

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

It mentioned its local college menace enforcement team 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 shooting," the sheriff's workplace stated.

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

“This student’s conduct is sickening, especially after the current tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno mentioned in a statement, noting that the risk got here just days after the lethal school capturing at Robb Elementary College left 19 college students and two teachers lifeless.

“Right now just isn't the time to act like a bit of delinquent. It’s not humorous,” he mentioned. “This baby made a pretend menace, and now he’s experiencing real penalties.”

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

The remark got here as authorities in Uvalde face mounting criticism over their response to the Might 24 college taking pictures after it got here to light that they waited roughly an hour for backup instead of instantly transferring in on the gunman.

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