A man arrested last year on suspicion of sending out emailed threats to commit a mass shooting at an elementary school in San Diego pleaded not guilty Friday to a newly refiled charge of making criminal threats.
Lee Lor, 39, is accused of sending more than 350 separate emails over the course of six months stating he would commit a shooting at Shoal Creek Elementary School in the Carmel Mountain neighborhood.
Lor remained in custody without bail for the 10 months following his December 2023 arrest, but earlier this month, San Diego Superior Court Judge Aaron Katz dismissed the criminal threats charges against Lor, ruling the charges concerned Lor’s neighbors rather than anyone connected with the school.
Prosecutors argued the alleged threat regarding the school originated out of the defendant’s belief that his neighbors were angered by him smoking outside his home and that he sent the threat because he mistakenly believed the neighbors had children attending Shoal Creek Elementary…