▲ Texas elementary school where the shooting took place on the 25th
A five-year-old boy, aged 10, has been arrested in Florida after posting in a text message that he intends to launch a mass shooting.
NBC reported that yesterday (30th) local time, the Lee County Sheriff's Office in Florida recognized that an elementary school student left a shooting threat text message on the 28th and immediately notified the local school threat enforcement team to investigate.
In response, the school threat enforcement team investigated a ten-year-old boy in the fifth grade of elementary school and charged him with threatening to carry out mass shootings through writing.
A video released by the authorities showed the boy getting into a police car as he was taken away.
"This student's behavior has affected us as it was right after the recent Uvaldy Texas disaster," the Lee County Sheriff said in a statement, noting that the incident occurred days after the massacre at Uvaldy, Texas, which killed 19 young students and two teachers. It makes me shiver,” he said.
He said, "Now is not the time to do anything like small crimes." "This child made a fake threat, but now he is experiencing real terrible results."
"The response team did not hesitate for even a second to investigate this incident," he said.
This seems to be a reference to the accusation that the police did not immediately enter the school during the U-Valdi Elementary School massacre, resulting in more casualties.