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

A fifth grade pupil in Florida was arrested over the weekend and charged with sending a text message threatening to carry out a mass taking pictures, authorities said.

In an announcement Saturday, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office 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 threat enforcement staff was immediately notified and started investigating. The ten-year-old boy was interviewed and charged later with "making a written menace to conduct a mass taking pictures," the sheriff's workplace said.

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

“This student’s conduct is sickening, particularly after the current tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said in a press release, noting that the menace came simply days after the deadly faculty capturing at Robb Elementary Faculty left 19 students and two teachers dead.

“Proper now will not be the time to behave like a bit of delinquent. It’s not funny,” he stated. “This little one made a faux menace, and now he’s experiencing actual consequences.”

Marceno stated his group “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 faculty taking pictures after it got here to light that they waited roughly an hour for backup as an alternative of immediately moving in on the gunman.

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