Reed Wischhusen, 32, is said to have penned a 1,700-word manifesto outlining his intended ‘hitman-style attack’.
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
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. Jonathan Rees KC, opening the trial, said: ‘ quiet house and its outhouse to the rear of it contained a dark secret. Mr Rees told jurors the defendant had listed ex-classmates, teachers and police staff, who he believed had wronged him in the past, as targets.
Mr Rees said Wischhusen took ‘real, concrete steps’ to compile the weapons and that his writings about them were ‘no fantasy at all’.
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