GLENDORA, Calif. (AP) - A California man has been charged with threatening to shoot up a college that was locked down for hours as police searched the campus.
Thirty-year-old Terrell Lee Bennett of Pomona is charged with making criminal threats and illegally possessing ammunition.
It’s unclear if he has an attorney.
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Prosecutors say Bennett called police Tuesday and made threads toward Citrus College in Glendora, 30 miles east of Los Angeles.
The threat sparked a lockdown that lasted more than six hours as students and staff barricaded in classrooms.
Police later arrested Bennett inside a campus building without incident. Police said he may have been trying to commit suicide by cop.
Prosecutors are asking Bennett’s bail to be set at $500,000. He faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted of the charges.
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