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 text message threatening to carry out a mass shooting, authorities stated.

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

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

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

“This pupil’s conduct is sickening, particularly after the current tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno mentioned in a press release, noting that the risk got here simply days after the lethal school shooting at Robb Elementary College left 19 college students and two lecturers useless.

“Right now just isn't the time to act like a bit delinquent. It’s not humorous,” he stated. “This youngster made a pretend menace, and now he’s experiencing actual consequences.”

Marceno stated his workforce “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 May 24 college shooting after it got here to light that they waited roughly an hour for backup as a substitute of immediately moving in on the gunman.

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