Von I. Meyer Arrested With 47 Guns: Threatened To Burn Wife Alive At Jane Ball Elementary School, 'Kill As Many People'

Police in northern Indiana arrested a man who threatened to shoot up an elementary school after a heated argument with his wife. Friday morning, Von I. Meyer, 60 threatened to set his wife on fire while she was sleeping in their home and said he would, "kill as many people as he could."

Meyer was arrested on Saturday on seven felony charges for threatening to kill his wife at a school and "would kill as many people as he could before police could stop him police." His threats comes after the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting in Newton, Connecticut after 20 children and 6 adults were murdered by gunman, Adam Lanza who then killed himself on Friday.

Meyer's wife works at Jane Ball Elementary School in the cafeteria close to their home. Interim Cedar Lake Police Chief Jerry Smith said Meyer's wife contacted authorities, and that he often made threats to her, "If people followed through on all the threats they've ever made - things said in anger that they don't really mean and regret - our population in this country would be half of what it is," he said according to the Associated Press. "This was something he said in the heat of an argument. He hadn't been plotting this."

Police searched their home and found 47 guns (most antique collector's gun) and ammunition hidden throughout the two-story home and believe that Meyer's wasn't going to follow through on his threat.