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Threat prompts "lockdown" for California schools Reuters SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Schools in Yuba City, California, were ordered into a "lockdown" on Thursday after the county sheriff warned a man had threatened to go on a killing spree inspired by Monday's mass murder at Virginia Tech. The Sutter County Sheriff's Department said on its Web site it had been warned that Jeffery Thomas Carney intended to make the mass slaying at Virginia Tech "look mild" and that he had said he was armed with an AK-47 rifle, improvised explosive devices and poison, and would seek to provoke a confrontation with police to "commit suicide-by-cop." Yuba City is located north of the state capital of Sacramento. The sheriff's department described Carney, 28, as a transient and reportedly a methamphetamine abuser possibly under the influence and exhibiting symptoms of methamphetamine psychosis. Yuba City schools were sealed and on a heightened level of security until further notice, according to a statement on the city school district's Web site. "Local law enforcement is providing teams of officers to increase patrol around all schools in the district and county," the statement said. "Local law enforcement is using all available resources and assigning off duty officers in unmarked vehicles in the vicinity of each school in the city and county." Virginia Tech student Cho Seung-Hui shot and killed 32 people and himself on the Blacksburg, Virginia campus on Monday in the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history. The murders have prompted universities and schools across the United State to review their security policies. |
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