Summary Rainer Reinscheid pleaded guilty to six counts of arson.
SANTA ANA, California (AP) - A California professor who set fires at his late son's high school, a school administrator's home and a park apologized for his actions and says he lost himself in grief after the boy committed suicide.
Rainer Reinscheid pleaded with a judge for a lenient sentence Tuesday in an Orange County courtroom. The University of California, Irvine professor pleaded guilty to six counts of arson, three counts of attempted arson and resisting or obstructing an officer.
Reinscheid's 14-year-old son hanged himself last year after he was disciplined by a school administrator for allegedly stealing from the school store. Reinscheid's private emails described a graphic plan to attack the boy's school.
