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-Lurid Crime Tales-
University Professor Arrested over U.S. School Shooting Threat
2012-08-03
[An Nahar] Police in Caliphornia have nabbed
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a German university professor after he wrote about gunning down students at his late son's high school and then killing himself, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday.

Officers acted after they found the emails, by 48-year-old Reiner Reinscheid, a professor at the University of Caliphornia
...a formerly great educational system, the most generous contributor to the 2008 Obama campaign, with a total of $1,648,685. Is there a reason universities are among the top financiers of political campaigns?
, Irvine.

Reinscheid was angry at University High School because his 14-year-old son, Claas Stubbe, had did away with himself in March after being disciplined for a theft from a school store, the newspaper said.

In emails sent in April to his wife and to himself, Reinscheid threatened to kill the school's assistant principal, shoot hundreds of students and then burn the school down, the Times said.

"I need a gun, many guns, and then I have the ride of my life," Reinscheid wrote in an email to himself, the Times reported.

"I will give myself a wonderful ending and be with Claas very soon. I like this plan, finally a good idea."

Reinscheid was first nabbed
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July 24 for trying to start a fire in a park, near where his son hanged himself.

He was released the same day on bail, but renabbed
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July 27 after police found the emails on examining his cellphone.

Prosecutors submitted the emails in court on Tuesday as part of a motion that he be denied bail, the Times said.
Sounds like the man needs some intensive grief counseling...
Posted by:Fred

#4  The Marinus van der Stubbe society...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2012-08-03 15:00  

#3  He did need grief counseling. I suppose the left will spin this into part of their gun control theme. Since he was probably part of the left, maybe nothing will come of it. He was just a guy with mental problems.
Posted by: JohnQC   2012-08-03 09:23  

#2  A professor of pharmacology......?

Clearly another....."Painters house which needs painting" story.
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-08-03 07:08  

#1  Sounds like he needs more than counselling!
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2012-08-03 07:06  

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