Early Warning Signals of Tuesday's Shutdown Friday, February 04, 2022
We seem to have quickly forgotten Tuesday's campus shutdown due to a mass shooting threat. However, the exact who-knew-what-when, and when and how decisions were made needs more scrutiny to avoid such events in the future. A TV station in Boulder, where the individual at the center of this event was arrested, has more information: Man arrested in Boulder sent threatening email more than a year before his arrest
Matthew Harris used the word "kill" more than 7,500 times in his more than 800-page manifesto, authorities said. Janet Oravetz (9News), Matthew Jablow, February 3, 2022 BOULDER, Colo. — More than a year before his arrest in Boulder earlier this week related to threats made to the UCLA campus, a former professor sent emails to his mother threatening to kill a professor at the UC Irvine campus, according to an affidavit in support of his arrest. Matthew Harris was tracked to Boulder by authorities after he was accused of sending a violent-filled manifesto to about 35 people on the UCLA campus, which prompted the campus to close on Tuesday. Prior threats Harris wrote in a Jan. 21, 2021 email to his mother that he planned to move closer to the UC Irvine campus so that he could hunt the woman, who was also a former acquaintance of his, down and kill her, according to the document. At the time, Harris' mother did not notify authorities of that email, the document says. In March of that year, he sent his mother another email saying he was "ready to be dead" but wasn't going to hurt anyone else, according to the document. Again, his mother did not notify authorities, the document says. On March 30, 2021, Harris, who was assigned to a research group during the winter quarter at UCLA, was reported to the UCLA Police Department as a subject of concern 122
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