Florida fifth grader arrested, charged with threatening a mass capturing, police say

A fifth grade scholar in Florida was arrested over the weekend and charged with sending a textual content message threatening to carry out a mass capturing, authorities mentioned.

In an announcement Saturday, the Lee County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned it had discovered earlier that day of a "threatening textual content message" despatched by a scholar at an elementary school.

It mentioned its native school risk enforcement workforce 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 shooting," the sheriff's office stated.

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

“This pupil’s conduct is sickening, especially after the current tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said in a statement, noting that the risk got here just days after the deadly college shooting at Robb Elementary Faculty left 19 students and two lecturers lifeless.

“Proper now will not be the time to behave like just a little delinquent. It’s not humorous,” he mentioned. “This child made a faux menace, and now he’s experiencing real consequences.”

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

The comment got here as authorities in Uvalde face mounting criticism over their response to the Might 24 school taking pictures after it came to mild that they waited roughly an hour for backup as an alternative of immediately shifting in on the gunman.

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