UCLA classes resume after ex-lecturer arrested over threats

Published February 1, 2022 10:05 PM

By STEFANIE DAZIO and COLLEEN SLEVIN
Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Classes have resumed at the University of California, Los Angeles after a former lecturer was arrested on suspicion of threatening violence against the school in online videos and an 800-page document sent via email. Classes were remote on Tuesday and were in-person again on Wednesday. Matthew Harris was taken into custody Tuesday in Colorado following a standoff at his Boulder apartment complex that ended peacefully. Months before the threats against UCLA, court documents show Harris was the subject of a restraining order after sending threatening messages saying he would “hunt” and kill a professor. It wasn’t immediately known if Harris had a lawyer who could speak on his behalf.

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