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 5th grade understudy in Florida was captured Saturday for taking steps to pull off a mass shooting through instant messages, police said.
The 10-year-old kid, an understudy at Patriot Elementary School in Cape Coral, was cuffed and strolled into a police cruiser Saturday night for conveying a composed intimidation to lead a mass shooting.
“This understudy’s way of behaving is nauseating, particularly after the new misfortune in Uvalde, Texas,”
Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said in a proclamation.
“Ensuring our youngsters are protected is vital.”
Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said in a statement.
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.
“We will have law and order in our schools! My team didn’t hesitate one second…NOT ONE SECOND, to investigate this threat,”
he said.
Officers who responded to the Uvalde, Texas school shooting that claimed the lives of 19 fourth-graders and two teachers are facing backlash for their delayed response. Police took nearly an hour to breach the classrooms where all the shootings occurred and kill gunman Salvador Ramos.
“Right now is not the time to act like a little delinquent. It’s not funny,”
Marceno said.
“This child made a fake threat, and now he’s experiencing real consequences.”
“This child made a fake threat, and now he’s experiencing real consequences.”
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