Florida fifth grader arrested, charged with threatening a mass shooting, 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 capturing, authorities said.

In a press release Saturday, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office said it had learned earlier that day of a "threatening text message" despatched by a student at an elementary college.

It said its native school menace enforcement group was immediately notified and began investigating. The 10-year-old boy was interviewed and charged later with "making a written risk to conduct a mass capturing," the sheriff's office said.

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

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

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

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

The remark came as authorities in Uvalde face mounting criticism over their response to the May 24 school shooting after it came to mild that they waited roughly an hour for backup as an alternative of immediately shifting in on the gunman.

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