U.S. District Judge Raymond P. Moore wrote that he found Matthew Christopher Harris is “presently suffering from a mental disease or defect.”
A Colorado man accused of penning threatening messages directed at the University of California, Los Angeles philosophy department,
Harris, 31, of Boulder, was charged with two counts of making interstate threats, and one count each of lying to a firearms dealer and being a prohibited person in possession of ammunition after prosecutors allege he sent two threatening emails to faculty in the department in late January and early February 2022.
Harris was arrested Feb. 2, 2022 after a standoff with Boulder SWAT officers. Altogether, the charges filed against Harris carry a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines.The emailed threats led UCLA to cancel all in-person classes the day after they were received. The chief of police in Boulder said Harris’ emails also contained threats against individuals in that city, too.
Harris’ reported behavior at UCLA in 2021 followed years of bizarre and harassing interactions between Harris and his female classmates at previous colleges he attended, including Duke and Cornell universities,The manifesto he’s alleged to have sent to UCLA the next year included the word “kill” thousands of times as well as other repeated mentions of violent words and racist language.
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