A fifth-grade student in Florida was arrested Saturday for threatening mass shooting via text messages, police said.
The 10-year-old, a student at Cape Coral Patriot Elementary School, was handcuffed and boarded a police cruise on Saturday evening for threatening in writing to carry out a mass shooting.
“This student’s behavior is disgusting, especially after the recent tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said in a statement. “Making sure our children are safe is paramount.”
“This student’s behavior is disgusting, especially after the recent tragedy in Uvalde, Texas,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said in a statement. Lee County Sheriff’s Department 10-year-old Patriot Elementary student walks to a police cruise on Saturday. Lee County Sheriff’s Department
The sheriff’s office’s school threat monitoring team was alerted to the alarming messages and the Youth Services Criminal Investigation Division soon took over the case, due to the child’s young age.
Marceno noted that officers quickly investigated the threats of mass shooting.
“We will have law and order in our schools! My team did not hesitate for a second … NOT A SECOND, to investigate this threat, “he said.
Officers who responded to the shooting at the school in Uvalde, Texas, which claimed the lives of 19 fourth-graders and two teachers, face a negative reaction for their delayed response. It took the police almost an hour to enter the classrooms where all the shootings took place and kill the gunman Salvador Ramos.
5th ARRESTED FOR MAKING A WRITTEN THREAT
“Now is not the time to act like a criminal. It’s not funny. This kid made a fake threat, and now he’s experiencing real consequences,” said Sheriff Carmine Marceno.
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Detectives interviewed the Florida boy, whose name the Post keeps because he is a minor, and developed a probable cause for his arrest, police said.
“Now is not the time to act like a criminal. It’s not funny,” Marceno said. “This child made a false threat and is now experiencing real consequences.