A UC Berkeley pupil arrested following a manhunt at UC Berkeley final week has been charged with making felony threats, police stated Wednesday.
Lamar Bursey, 39, of Hayward, faces two counts of felony felony threats, based on charging paperwork obtained from the the Alameda County District Legal professional’s Workplace. Bursey is a pupil on the college and a Hayward resident.
Bursey is suspected of inflicting an hours-long manhunt on the campus April 21 with emailed threats characterised by UC Berkeley spokesman Dan Mogulof as “official, severe and of grave, grave concern.”
Authorities allege that Bursey made his threats to college workers members after being positioned on tutorial suspension for an earlier incident on April 14 through which he was arrested on suspicion of disturbing the peace and theft.
“Look y’all are my sources,” Bursey wrote in an electronic mail at 5:56 a.m. on April 21, based on a possible trigger assertion. “I’ll be within the workplace from approx [sic] 9 am to 4 pm right this moment. Cease enjoying with me. Relying on who I really feel was serving to or not, 2 individuals on this electronic mail will get shot.”
He additionally wrote, based on the authorities: “Take into account this a promisarry [sic] notice you (expletive) you.”
One of many e-mail recipients informed is supervisor that he feared for his life and that he wouldn't be again on the campus “so long as this particular person is a risk to my life.”
One other worker additionally feared being shot by Bursey and selected to remain dwelling, authorities stated.
Campus police stated the emails got here to their consideration about 7:30 a.m., and so they ordered a shelter in place on the campus that remained in impact for greater than 4 hours. The college cancelled all of its lessons and locked down the campus’ greater than 100 buildings.
1000's of scholars, school and workers members had been affected, and a few of them had been caught within the buildings through the lockdown.
Police discovered Bursey about 2 p.m. at Summit Hospital in Oakland. Police arrested him there with out incident.
Seven colleges contained in the Berkeley Unified Faculty District additionally went right into a “tender” lockdown through the seek for Bursey, that means college students and workers couldn't go away, and oldsters and others couldn't enter these campuses.