Follow up on the lockdown that took place at UC-Berkeley

From the San Francisco Chronicle: A 39-year-old UC Berkeley student is facing felony charges for allegedly threatening university staff members in an incident that prompted an extended campus-wide shelter-in-place order while authorities searched for him last week. Alameda County prosecutors on Monday charged Lamar Bursey of Hayward with two counts of felony criminal threats. The university had placed Bursey on academic suspension for an incident that occurred April 14, a week before the alleged threats to staff, according to a declaration by UC Berkeley police filed in Superior Court. Officials did not detail what happened in the earlier matter.

Then on Thursday [April 21], just before 6 a.m., Bursey sent an email to multiple university staff members in which he threatened to shoot two recipients, the document states. He wrote that staff members were his “resources” and that he slept “outside” the day before, the document said. Bursey told staff members that he would be on campus — “in the office” — from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. that day, according to the declaration. It was unclear what office he was referring to. “Depending on who I feel was helping or not, 2 people on this email will get shot,” the email said, according to police.

One of the email recipients notified a supervisor and said he was “scared for his life and the life of others,” the document said, while another person told authorities that she thought Bursey would shoot her if she went into work that day. The alleged threats prompted UC Berkeley police to issue a shelter-in-place order at 7:30 a.m. due to a “credible campus-wide threat” that lasted more than four hours. In-person classes were canceled, buildings were locked, people were urged to stay indoors and away from windows, and anyone off campus was asked to stay away from the area...

Full story at https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/UC-Berkeley-student-facing-felony-charges-for-17128979.php.

Our original post on this matter is at:

http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2022/04/another-security-lockdown-this-time-at.html.