A man was convicted Tuesday of sending emailed threats to commit a mass shooting at Shoal Creek Elementary School in Carmel Mountain Ranch.
A San Diego jury deliberated for about a day before finding Lee Lor, 40, guilty of a single felony count of making criminal threats for an email he sent in December 2023 that prompted a police response at the campus and Lor’s arrest later that day.
Lor is slated to be sentenced next month. The criminal threats count carries a maximum possible sentence of three years in state prison.
Prosecutors say the email was one of over 400 he sent over the course of several months stating he would commit a shooting at the school, located less than a mile from where Lor was living at the time.
The threatening email cited in the case stated that he was going “to