Opening statements and witness testimony were delivered on Wednesday in the trial of a man accused of sending out emailed threats to commit a mass shooting at Shoal Creek Elementary School in Carmel Mountain Ranch.
Lee Lor, 40, is accused of sending hundreds of separate emails over the course of several months stating he would commit a shooting at the school, which is located less than a mile from where Lor was living at the time.
Lor faces a single felony count of making criminal threats in connection with one of those emails that was 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 threats to shoot up Shoal Creek. One of the emails he allegedly replied to landed in the spam folder of a woman in Beverly Hills, who alerted police…