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 hold out a mass capturing, authorities stated.

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

It mentioned its local faculty threat enforcement workforce was instantly notified and started investigating. The ten-year-old boy was interviewed and charged later with "making a written risk to conduct a mass capturing," the sheriff's workplace said.

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

“This student’s behavior is sickening, especially after the current tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said in a press release, noting that the threat came just days after the deadly college shooting at Robb Elementary Faculty left 19 college students and two lecturers useless.

“Right now shouldn't be the time to act like a little delinquent. It’s not humorous,” he stated. “This baby made a fake threat, and now he’s experiencing actual penalties.”

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

The comment got here as authorities in Uvalde face mounting criticism over their response to the Could 24 college shooting after it got here to gentle that they waited roughly an hour for backup as a substitute of immediately transferring in on the gunman.

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