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A Lidl worker who planned to gun down his former classmates and teachers with homemade firearms has been jailed for life.
Reed Wischhusen, 32, used his home in Worle, Somerset, as a makeshift weapon factory while plotting a rampage through the town aimed at wreaking ‘revenge’ on people he thought had wronged him in the past.
He scrawled the names of 10 former classmates, teachers and police staff in a 1,700-word manifesto detailing a ‘hitman-style’ attack, a court heard.
Armed officers stormed the 32-year-old’s house in November 2022 and shot him three times after he pointed one of his handguns at them.
The plot was only uncovered after he was reported for converting blank-firing guns into lethal ones.
An ‘armory’ of illegally converted weapons was found stashed around the house and an outhouse to its rear.
They included pistols, submachine guns and a shotgun, as well as ammunition, bombs, grenades and poison, jurors were told.
Evidence was also uncovered indicating Wischhusen was obsessed with mass killings such as the Oklahoma bombing in 1995, the Dunblane massacre in 1996 and the Columbine shooting in 1999.
He was said to have a ‘macabre interest in infamous killers’ including Dunblane shooter Thomas Hamilton, shotgun killer Raoul Moat and American cop killer Ralph McLean.
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Reed Wischhusen, 32, planned to kill teachers, ex-classmates and police officers in Somerset using an ‘armory’ of homemade weapons.