California Prof Was Planning High School Rampage Cops Allege
Cops say when they arrested the UC Irvine professor on charges of arson they found e-mails on his cellphone detailing an attack on the high school his son attended when the teen committed suicide.
A California college professor plotted a shooting rampage at the high school his son had attended before the teen killed himself, planning to kill teachers and administrators before burning the school the ground, authorities say.
MyFoxLA.com reports 48-year-old Rainer Reinscheid has been charged with five counts of arson, one count of attempted arson and a misdemeanor count of resisting or obstructing a police officer after allegedly setting or attempting to set a number of fires around the area.
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Like the Aurora, Co. massacre and the UofA Huntsville shootings the alleged perp is, once again, a neuro-science scholar.