Florida fifth grader arrested, charged with threatening a mass shooting, 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 statement Saturday, the Lee County Sheriff’s Workplace said it had discovered earlier that day of a "threatening textual content message" despatched by a student at an elementary college.

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

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

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

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

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

The remark got here as authorities in Uvalde face mounting criticism over their response to the Might 24 school capturing after it got here to gentle that they waited roughly an hour for backup as an alternative of instantly moving in on the gunman.

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