UCI professor sentenced to more than 14 years for arson attacks

A UC Irvine professor who set a sequence of fires after his son’s suicide was sentenced Thursday to 14 years and 4 months in state jail.

Rainer Klaus Reinscheid, 49, of Irvine pleaded responsible in July to 1 felony depend of arson of one other’s property, three felony counts of arson of forest land, two felony counts of arson of a construction, three felony counts of tried arson and one misdemeanor depend of resisting or obstructing an officer.

Reinscheid, who taught in UC Irvine’s division of pharmaceutical science and is on unpaid go away from the college, additionally confronted sentencing enhancements for utilizing an accelerant to set the fires.

Prosecutors stated Reinscheid was upset at College Excessive Faculty in Irvine for the way it dealt with his son’s suicide in March 2012. Claas Stubbe, 14, hanged himself at Mason Park Protect after being disciplined for a “minor” theft from a pupil retailer.

That July, Reinscheid dedicated six arsons and three tried arsons by setting hearth to newspapers, brush and a plastic porch chair, amongst different gadgets. The fires occurred at College Excessive Faculty, at Mason Park Protect and outdoors an assistant principal’s house.

Officers with the Irvine Police Division who have been patrolling Mason Park Protect within the wake of the arsons noticed Reinscheid try to begin a hearth utilizing a newspaper and lighter fluid. He ignored their orders to cease, and resisted arrest.

Reinscheid was launched after posting bail, then arrested once more after investigators found e mail drafts threatening to kill the assistant principal of College Excessive Faculty, shoot a whole lot of scholars and burn the college to the bottom in a “firestorm that destroys each single constructing.”

He's scheduled for a restitution listening to Nov. 15.

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