Lester Dale Lee, a former substitute teacher, has been charged with sending three threatening letters to Dayton Elementary School in San Leandro, California. The letters, sent in May 2023, included threats against a teacher and her students, with racial slurs included. Additionally, one letter contained a suspicious white substance meant to provoke a reaction. Lee is also accused of sending further threatening communications to the district's director of elementary education, prompting legal action from federal prosecutors.
"The school first received a letter addressed to one of its fifth grade teachers on May 3, officials said in a criminal complaint. In the letter, Lee posed as a parent, called out students in the teacher's classroom using a racial slur and threatened to shoot her and the students if they were not removed from the class, the complaint shows."
"Inside was a white substance that the principal thought to be baking powder, used by the sender to 'scare her or provoke some kind of reaction,' officials said."
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