Opening statements and witness testimony were delivered Wednesday in the trial of a man accused of sending emailed threats about a mass shooting at a San Diego school.
Lee Lor, 40, is accused of sending hundreds of separate emails over the course of several months stating he would commit a shooting at Shoal Creek Elementary School in Carmel Mountain Ranch. The campus is located less than a mile from where Lor was living at the time.
He faces a single felony count of making criminal threats in connection with one of those emails, sent in December 2023, which prompted a police response at the campus and Lor’s arrest later that day.
Prosecutors say none of the emails was sent directly to the school. Instead, Lor allegedly replied to random spam emails in his inbox with nearly identical thr