Friday, April 20, 2007

UPDATE 6-California towns lock schools; man turns self in

(Reuters) - YUBA CITY, California, April 19 - Teachers locked classroom doors, lowered shades and kept nearly 22,000 school children inside all day on Thursday in two northern California cities after a man threatened to go on a killing spree inspired by Monday's mass murder at Virginia Tech.

Police patrolled public schools in Yuba City and nearby Marysville 40 miles north of state capital Sacramento after Jeffery Thomas Carney allegedly said he intended to make the mass slaying at Virginia Tech "look mild."


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