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 carry out a mass taking pictures, authorities said.

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

It stated its native school threat enforcement workforce was immediately notified and started investigating. The 10-year-old boy was interviewed and charged later with "making a written threat to conduct a mass capturing," the sheriff's office stated.

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

“This pupil’s habits is sickening, especially after the latest tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno stated in a statement, noting that the menace came just days after the deadly college taking pictures at Robb Elementary Faculty left 19 college students and two teachers dead.

“Right now is not the time to behave like a bit of delinquent. It’s not funny,” he mentioned. “This baby made a faux menace, and now he’s experiencing actual consequences.”

Marceno mentioned his team “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 taking pictures after it got here to mild that they waited roughly an hour for backup instead of immediately moving in on the gunman.

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