Tamietti said in testimony Friday that after she revealed the alleged threat in December, she and her husband asked both Chico city and Chico State Police to post extra patrols on their street out of fears Stachura could retaliate. Stachura has denied making the alleged threat and sued Tamietti for libel. Another professor who has since left the university told EdSource she also learned of the threat and reported it to Hassenzahl. He declined to elaborate or say what he did with the information Tamietti and Gorman provided. Hassenzahl, who was in court observing the proceedings later said outside the courtroom, “I don’t dispute anything I have heard” in testimony.
“They didn’t follow up on it,” Tamietti testified Friday The university has not made public what was done with the information. Tamietti testified that even after seeing Hassenzahl, she had second thoughts and considered retracting what she had reported. On Thursday, one of the professors Stachura allegedly threatened to kill, Kristen Gorman, testified she also told Hassenzahl of the threat after learning of it. I was terrified of him.” She said she told the dean of the College of Natural Sciences, David Hassenzahl, on Jan. She said waited three months to report the remarks because “I was afraid of being on the record against him. Tamietti testified Stachura told her that if he “wanted people dead they’d be dead” and perhaps he’d skip her office if he shot up the department. Her testimony echoed what she told a large campus meeting in December where she first revealed Stachura had threatened a shooting in the biology department in October 2021 shortly after he returned to work after being investigated for an earlier threat to kill two colleagues who cooperated in a university investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct against Stachura. The lecturer, Betsey Tamietti, said on the stand that she was so shaken by what she said Stachura had allegedly told her, she at first repeated it only to her husband. CHICO - A biology lecturer testified in Superior Court on Friday that she reported suspended Chico State Professor David Stachura’s alleged 2021 threats of a campus shooting to the department dean nearly three months after they were made.
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