Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas left Nice, France, hours before a man drove a truck through a crowd, killing dozens.
Thomas was abroad teaching at under a program run by San Diego’s Thomas Jefferson School of Law, school spokesman Edgar Hopida told the San Diego Union-Tribune. Thomas left Nice Thursday morning.
Hopida added that an unknown number of students and faculty were participating in the program. Though not everyone has been accounted for, there are so far no reports of injuries or deaths of anyone associated with the program.
Thomas agreed to participate in the program in March following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. Scalia had taught in the program four times.
“This is the first time that Justice Thomas will teach in the Nice Study Abroad Program, and we’re honored to have him participate,” Thomas Guernsey, president and dean of Thomas Jefferson School of Law, said in a statement at the time. “Justice Scalia would be proud to have Justice Thomas teach Constitutional Law in his place, a subject about which the late Justice Scalia was passionate.”
The law school program is held in France in a partnership with the University of Nice School of Law.
On Thursday night, a man drove a large truck loaded with grenades and explosives into a crowd on a closed-off street during Bastille Day celebrations in Nice. At least 84 people were killed, and roughly 50 more remain in critical condition. The motive has yet to be determined and no terror group has claimed responsibility.
