10-Year-Old Fifth-Grade Student in Florida Arrested for Threatening Mass Shooting

The 10-year-old boy in the fifth grade at Patriot Elementary School in Cape Coral, Florida, is handcuffed and walked into a police cruiser Saturday for making a threat to conduct a mass shooting. (Lee County Sheriff’s Department)

A fifth-grade student in Florida was arrested Saturday for threatening to pull off a mass shooting via text messages, police said.

The 10-year-old boy, a student at Patriot Elementary School in Cape Coral, was handcuffed and walked into a police cruiser Saturday evening for making a written threat to conduct a mass shooting.

“This student’s behavior is sickening, 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.”

The sheriff’s office’s School Threat Enforcement Team was tipped off to the alarming messages and the Youth Services Criminal Investigations Division soon took on the case, due to the child’s young age.

Marceno noted that officers were quick to investigate the mass shooting threats.

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SOURCE: New York Post, Allie Griffin