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

A fifth grade student 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 a press release Saturday, the Lee County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned it had realized earlier that day of a "threatening text message" despatched by a student at an elementary college.

It mentioned its native faculty risk enforcement group was immediately notified and started investigating. The 10-year-old boy was interviewed and charged later with "making a written risk to conduct a mass taking pictures," the sheriff's office stated.

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

“This pupil’s conduct is sickening, particularly after the recent tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno stated in a press release, noting that the menace got here simply days after the deadly college shooting at Robb Elementary School left 19 college students and two academics dead.

“Right now is just not the time to act like slightly delinquent. It’s not funny,” he mentioned. “This child made a faux menace, and now he’s experiencing real penalties.”

Marceno said his crew “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 college taking pictures after it came to gentle that they waited roughly an hour for backup instead of immediately moving in on the gunman.

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