 A Lidl warehouse worker obsessed with the Dunblane and Columbine mass shootings turned his home into a weapons factory while plotting a 'revenge' attack on his old school, a court has heard. Reed Wischhusen, 32, is said to have penned a 1,700-word manifesto outlining his intended 'hitman-style attack', naming 10 ex-classmates, teachers and police staff as targets. After killing teachers and bombing Priory School, in Worle, Somerset, he planned to target Avon and Somerset Police's headquarters before taking his own life, Bristol Crown Court was told. Jurors heard armed officers were forced to shoot Wischhusen three times after he pointed a handgun at them while they searched the house for weapons in November 2022. They had gone there following reports he was converting blank firearms into lethal ones but ended up finding an 'armoury' of homemade weapons, it was said. Among the haul were pistols, sub-machine guns and a shotgun, as well as ammunition, bombs, grenades and poison, the jury heard. Wischhusen, who survived the shooring and was in hospital for four months before his arrest, denies having an explosive substance with intent to endanger life, having an explosive substance, possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life, possessing ammunition with intent to endanger life and possessing a prohibited firearm without a certificate. He has admitted possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence, possessing a prohibited firearm and possessing ammunition without a firearm certificate in relation to the handgun incident last year. Jonathan Rees KC, opening the trial, said: '(Wischhusen's) quiet house and its outhouse to the rear of it contained a dark secret. 'Over a sustained period of time, Mr Wischhusen, who had a macabre interest in infamous killers such as Thomas Hamilton of Dunblane and Raoul Moat in the UK, and the 'cop hater' Ralph McLean in the US, and a){kind=link}
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A Lidl warehouse worker obsessed with the Dunblane and Columbine mass shootings turned his home into a weapons factory while plotting a ‘revenge’ attack on his old school, a court has heard.
Reed Wischhusen, 32, is said to have penned a 1,700-word manifesto outlining his intended ‘hitman-style attack’, naming 10 ex-classmates, teachers and police staff as targets.
After killing teachers and bombing Priory School, in Worle, Somerset, he planned to target Avon and Somerset Police’s headquarters before taking his own life, Bristol Crown Court was told.
Jurors heard armed officers were forced to shoot Wischhusen three times after he pointed a handgun at them while they searched the house for weapons in November 2022.