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Why Did America Swallow Sandy Hook, Line and Sinker?

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By John W. Spring

Why did America swallow Sandy Hook, line and sinker? Yes, I am talking about the shootings and murders that had allegedly taken place in Newton, Connecticut at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012. But the FBI Report, CRIME in the United States 2012, Table 8, in the column “Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter,” does not list any homicides in Newtown or even Monroe where the students from Sandy Hook Elementary School were allegedly using a school building after theirs had been closed due to asbestos and other toxic materials inside the former classrooms, which were then only used for storage at the apparently then vacated edifice.

During that same time period, Robert Swan Mueller III had served as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from September 4, 2001 until September 4, 2013, which meant that he was in charge of the FBI during the time of the alleged shootings and murders of 20 students and six adults at the Sandy Hook Elementary School building in Newtown, Connecticut.

So, rather than attacking Alex Jones at InfoWars.com, perhaps, we should question former FBI Director Robert S. Mueller who was responsible for the report of CRIME in the United States 2012, Table 8 for Newtown, Connecticut. JWS


From Wikipedia:

Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting
Police at the scene of the shooting

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Location Sandy Hook Elementary School
Newtown, Connecticut, U.S.
Coordinates 41°25′12″N 73°16′43″WCoordinates41°25′12″N 73°16′43″W[1]
Date December 14, 2012; 5 years ago 
9:35 a.m. – 9:40 a.m.[2][3][4] EST(UTC−05:00)
Target Students and staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School

Attack type

School shootingmurder–suicidematricidespree shooting
Weapons

[5][6][7][8][9]

Deaths 28 total; 27 at the school (including the perpetrator) and the perpetrator’s mother at home[10][11]

Non-fatal injuries

2[12]
Perpetrator Adam Lanza[13][14]

The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, ConnecticutUnited States, when 20-year-old Adam Lanza fatally shot 20 children between six and seven years old, as well as six adult staff members. Prior to driving to the school, he shot and killed his mother at their Newtown home. As first responders arrived at the scene, Lanza committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.

The incident was the deadliest mass shooting at either a high school or grade school in U.S. history and the fourth-deadliest mass shooting by a single person in U.S. history.[a] The shooting prompted renewed debate about gun control in the United States, including proposals for making the background-check system universal, and for new federal and state gun legislationbanning the sale and manufacture of certain types of semi-automatic firearms and magazines with more than ten rounds of ammunition.

A November 2013 report issued by the Connecticut State Attorney’s office concluded that Lanza acted alone and planned his actions, but provided no indication why he did so, or why he targeted the school. A report issued by the Office of the Child Advocate in November 2014 said that Lanza had Asperger’s syndrome and as a teenager suffered from depressionanxietyand obsessive-compulsive disorder, but concluded that they had “neither caused nor led to his murderous acts.” The report went on to say “his severe and deteriorating internalized mental health problems… combined with an atypical preoccupation with violence… (and) access to deadly weapons… proved a recipe for mass murder”.[18]

Contents

Background

As of November 30, 2012, 456 children were enrolled in kindergarten through fourth grade at Sandy Hook Elementary School.[19] The school’s security protocols had recently been upgraded, requiring visitors to be individually admitted after visual and identification review by video monitor. Doors to the school were locked at 9:30 a.m. each day, after morning arrivals.[20]

Newtown is located in Fairfield County, Connecticut, about 60 miles (100 km) from New York City.[21] Violent crime had been rare in the town of 28,000 residents; there was only one homicide in the town in the ten years prior to the school shooting.[22]

Under Connecticut law at the time,[23] the 20-year-old Lanza was old enough to carry a long gun, such as a rifle or shotgun,[24] but too young to own or carry handguns.[25]

Events

List of casualties

Killed:

  • Perpetrator’s mother

    • Nancy Lanza, 52, (shot at home)
  • School personnel
    • Rachel D’Avino, 29, teacher’s aide[26]
    • Dawn Hochsprung, 47, principal
    • Anne Marie Murphy, 52, teacher’s aide[27]
    • Lauren Rousseau, 30, teacher
    • Mary Sherlach, 56, school psychologist
    • Victoria Leigh Soto, 27, teacher
  • Students
    • Charlotte Bacon, 6[28]
    • Daniel Barden, 7
    • Olivia Engel, 6
    • Josephine Gay, 7
    • Dylan Hockley, 6
    • Madeleine Hsu, 6
    • Catherine Hubbard, 6
    • Chase Kowalski, 7
    • Jesse Lewis, 6
    • Ana Márquez-Greene, 6
    • James Mattioli, 6
    • Grace McDonnell, 7
    • Emilie Parker, 6
    • Jack Pinto, 6
    • Noah Pozner, 6
    • Caroline Previdi, 6[29]
    • Jessica Rekos, 6
    • Avielle Richman, 6
    • Benjamin Wheeler, 6
    • Allison Wyatt, 6
  • Perpetrator
    • Adam Lanza, 20 (suicide)

Wounded:

  • Natalie Hammond, 40, lead teacher
  • Deborah Pisani[30]

Sources:[31][32][33]

Murder of Nancy Lanza

Some time before 9:30 a.m. EST on Friday, December 14, 2012, Lanza shot and killed his mother Nancy Lanza, aged 52, at their Newtown home.[34] Investigators later found her body clad in pajamas, in her bed, with four gunshot wounds to her head.[35] Lanza then drove to Sandy Hook Elementary School in his mother’s car.[34][36]

Red circle: Sandy Hook Elementary School
Black circle: Lanza household

Mass shooting begins

Shortly after 9:35 a.m., using his mother’s Bushmaster XM15-E2S rifle and ten magazines with 30 rounds each,[5][6][7][8][9] Lanza shot his way through a glass panel next to the locked front entrance doors of the school.[37][38][39] He was wearing black clothing, yellow earplugs, sunglasses,[40] and an olive green utility vest.[8] Initial reports which had stated that he had been wearing body armor were incorrect.[41] Some of those present heard the initial shots on the school intercom system, which was being used for morning announcements.[20]

Principal Dawn Hochsprung and school psychologist Mary Sherlach were meeting with other faculty members when they heard, but did not recognize, gunshots. Hochsprung, Sherlach, and lead teacher Natalie Hammond went into the hall to determine the source of the sounds and encountered Lanza. A faculty member who was at the meeting said that the three women called out “Shooter! Stay put!” which alerted their colleagues to the danger and saved their lives.[42] An aide heard gunshots. A teacher hiding in the math lab heard school janitor Rick Thorne yell, “Put the gun down!” (Thorne survived.)[43] Lanza killed both Hochsprung and Sherlach.[44] Hammond was hit first in the leg, and then sustained another gunshot wound. She lay still in the hallway and then, not hearing any more noise, crawled back to the conference room and pressed her body against the door to keep it closed.[45] She was later treated at Danbury Hospital.[44][46]

A nine-year-old boy stated that he heard the shooter say: “Put your hands up!” and someone else say “Don’t shoot!” He also heard many people yelling and many gunshots over the intercom while he, his classmates, and his teacher took refuge in a closet in the gymnasium.[47] Diane Day, a school therapist who had been at the faculty meeting with Hochsprung, heard screaming followed by more gunshots. A second teacher, who was a substitute kindergarten teacher, was wounded in the attack. While she was closing a door further down the hallway, she was hit in the foot with a bullet that ricocheted. Lanza never entered her classroom.[12][48][49]

After killing Hochsprung and Sherlach, Lanza entered the main office but apparently did not see the people hiding there, and returned to the hallway.[39] School nurse Sarah (Sally) Cox,[50][51] 60, hid under a desk in her office. She later described seeing the door opening and Lanza’s boots and legs facing her desk from approximately 20 feet (6.1 m) away. He remained standing for a few seconds before turning around and leaving. She and the school secretary Barbara Halstead called 9-1-1 and hid in a first-aid supply closet for as long as four hours.[52] Janitor Rick Thorne ran through hallways, alerting classrooms.[53]

Classroom shootings

Floorplan of Sandy Hook Elementary; Classrooms 8 (Rousseau / D’Avino), 10 (Soto / Murphy) and 12 (Roig) are labeled along with the main office (o) and Conference Room 9 (Hochsprung / Sherlach / Hammond)

Lanza then entered a first-grade classroom where Lauren Rousseau, a substitute teacher, had herded her first grade students to the back of the room, and was trying to hide them in a bathroom, when Lanza forced his way into the classroom.[48] Rousseau, Rachel D’Avino (a behavioral therapist who had been employed for a week at the school to work with a special needs student), and fifteen students in Rousseau’s class were all killed. Fourteen of the children were dead at the scene; one injured child was taken to a hospital for treatment, but was later declared dead.[45] Most of the teachers and students were found crowded together in the bathroom.[54] A six-year-old girl, the sole survivor, was found by police in the classroom following the shooting.[45] The surviving girl was hidden in one of the corners of the classroom’s bathroom during the shooting.[55] The girl’s family pastor said that she survived the mass shooting by remaining still, and playing dead. When she reached her mother, she said, “Mommy, I’m okay, but all my friends are dead.” The child described the shooter as “a very angry man.”[56][57] A girl hiding in a bathroom with two teachers told police that she heard a boy in the classroom screaming, “Help me! I don’t want to be here!” to which Lanza responded, “Well, you’re here,” followed by more hammering sounds.[58]

Lanza next went to another first-grade classroom nearby; at this point, there are conflicting reports about the order of events. According to some reports, the classroom’s teacher, Victoria Leigh Soto, had concealed some of the students in a closet or bathroom, and some of the other students were hiding under desks.[48] Soto was walking back to the classroom door to lock it when Lanza entered the classroom.[59] Lanza walked to the back of the classroom, saw the children under the desks, and shot them. First grader Jesse Lewis shouted at his classmates to run for safety, and several of them did. Lewis was looking at Lanza when Lanza fatally shot him.[60] Another account, given by a surviving child’s father, said that Soto had moved the children to the back of the classroom, and that they were seated on the floor when Lanza entered. According to this account, neither Lanza nor any of the occupants of the classroom spoke. Lanza stared at the people on the floor, pointed the gun at a boy seated there, but did not fire at the boy, who ultimately survived.[61] The boy got up and ran out of the classroom and was among the survivors.[58]

Hartford Courant report said that six of the children who escaped did so when Lanza stopped shooting, either because his weapon jammed or he erred in reloading it.[48] Earlier reports said that, as Lanza entered her classroom, Soto told him that the children were in the auditorium. When several of the children came out of their hiding places and tried to run for safety, Lanza fatally shot them. Soto put herself between her students and the shooter, who then fatally shot her.[62] Anne Marie Murphy, the teacher’s aide who worked with special-needs students in Soto’s classroom, was found covering six-year-old Dylan Hockley, who also died.[63][64] Soto and four children were found dead in the classroom, Soto near the north wall of the room with a set of keys nearby.[45]:14 One child was taken to the hospital, but was pronounced dead.[45]:14 Six surviving children from the class and a school bus driver took refuge at a nearby home.[65]According to the official report released by the state’s attorney, nine children ran from Soto’s classroom and survived, while two children were found by police hiding in a class bathroom.[45]:14 In all, 11 children from Soto’s class survived.[60] Five of Soto’s students were killed.[66]

Survivors

First grade teacher Kaitlin Roig, 29 years old, hid 14 students in a bathroom and barricaded the door, telling them to be completely quiet to remain safe.[67][68] It is believed that Lanza bypassed her classroom, which was the first classroom on the left side of the hallway; possibly because, following a lockdown drill weeks earlier, Roig had failed to remove a piece of black construction paper that was covering the small window in her classroom door. Lanza may have assumed that Roig’s classroom was empty because the door was closed and the window covered.[48]

School library staff Yvonne Cech and Maryann Jacob first hid 18 children in a part of the library the school used for lockdown in practice drills. Discovering that one door would not lock, they had the children crawl into a storage room, where Cech barricaded the door with a filing cabinet.[10][47][69]

Music teacher Maryrose Kristopik, 50, barricaded her fourth-graders in a tiny supply closet during the rampage.[70] Lanza arrived moments later, pounding on the door and yelling, “Let me in,” while the students in Kristopik’s class quietly hid inside.[71]

Two third-grade students, chosen as classroom helpers, were walking down the hallway to the office to deliver the morning attendance sheet as the shooting began. Teacher Abbey Clements pulled both children into her classroom, where they hid.[72]

Laura Feinstein, a reading specialist at the school, gathered two students from outside her classroom and hid with them under desks after they heard gunshots.[73] Feinstein called the school office and tried to call 911, but could not connect, due to the lack of reception on her cell phone. She hid with the children for approximately 40 minutes, at which point law enforcement came to lead them out of the room.[74]

Shooter’s suicide

The police heard the final shot at 9:40 a.m.; they believe that it was Lanza shooting himself in the lower rear portion of his head with the Glock 20SF in classroom 10.[75] Lanza’s body was found wearing a pale green pocket vest over a black polo shirt, over a black T-shirt, black sneakers, black fingerless gloves, black socks, and a black canvas belt.[75][76]Other objects found in the vicinity of Lanza include a black boonie hat and thin frame glasses. The Glock was found, apparently jammed, near Lanza, and the rifle was found several feet away from him.[75] A 9 mm SIG Sauer P226, which was not fired during the incident, was found on the shooter’s person.[77]

Immediate aftermath

Authorities determined that Lanza reloaded frequently during the shootings, sometimes firing only fifteen rounds from a thirty-round magazine.[78] He shot all but two of his victims multiple times.[79][80] Most of the shooting took place in two first-grade classrooms near the entrance of the school.[81] The students among the victims totaled eight boys and twelve girls, all either six or seven years of age,[82] and the six adults were all women who worked at the school. Bullets were also found in at least three cars parked outside the school, leading police to believe that he was firing at a teacher who was standing near a window.[48][78] When police interviewed survivors, a teacher recalled hearing Lanza curse several times, as well as say such things as, “Look at me!” and “Come over here!” and “Look at them!”[58]

Police response

First response timeline [45]
Time Event
9:35 a.m. Shooter is believed to first enter SHES.
9:35:39 a.m. First 911 call to Newtown Police is received.
9:36:06 a.m. 911 dispatcher broadcasts shooting at SHES.
9:37:38 a.m. Connecticut State Police dispatched to SHES.
9:39:00 a.m. First Newtown police arrives behind SHES.
9:39:13 a.m. Two more Newtown officers arrive at SHES.
9:40:03 a.m. Last shot heard. Believed to be shooter’s suicide.
9:42:39 a.m. Newtown police reports shooter’s car license plate.
9:44:47 a.m. Newtown police officers enter SHES.
9:46:23 a.m. Connecticut State Police arrive at SHES.
9:46:48 a.m. Connecticut State Police enter SHES.

The first call to 911 was around 9:35 a.m. Newtown 911 police dispatch first broadcast that there was a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary (SHES) at 9:36 a.m., about thirty seconds after they received the first call.[83]Connecticut State Police (CSP) were dispatched at 9:37 a.m.[67] Newtown police arrived at the school street at 9:39 a.m., approximately four and a half minutes after the 911 call and Connecticut State Police arrived at the school street at 9:46 a.m. Newtown police first entered the school at 9:45 a.m., approximately ten minutes after the first 911 call and approximately fourteen minutes after the shooting had started. This was approximately five minutes after the last shot was heard.[45] No shots were fired by the police.[3][84]

The Newtown police and Connecticut State Police mobilized local police dog and police tactical units, a bomb squad, and a state police helicopter.[85] Police locked down the school and began evacuating the survivors room by room, escorting groups of students and adults away from the school. They swept the school for other shooters at least four times.

At approximately 10:00 a.m., Danbury Hospital sent extra medical personnel in expectation of having to treat numerous victims. Three wounded patients were evacuated to the hospital, where two children were later declared dead.[86] The other was an unidentified adult.[12]

The New York City medical examiner dispatched a portable morgue to assist the authorities.[20] The victims’ bodies were removed from the school and formally identified during the night after the shooting.[87][88] A state trooper was assigned to each victim’s family to protect their privacy and provide them with information.

On December 4, 2013, seven 911 calls relating to the shooting were made public.[89]

Investigation

On-site

Investigators did not find a suicide note or any messages referring to the planning of the attack.[76][90] Janet Robinson, superintendent of Newtown schools, said she had not found any connection between Lanza’s mother and the school in contrast to initial media reports that stated Lanza’s mother had worked there.[10][91] Police also investigated whether Lanza was the person who had been in an altercation with four staff members at Sandy Hook School the day before the massacre. It was presumed that he killed two of the four staff members involved in the altercation (the principal and the psychologist) and wounded the third (the lead teacher) in the attack; the fourth staff member was not at the school that day.[92] The state police stated that they did not know of any reports about any altercations at the school.[93]

Police sources initially reported Lanza’s sibling, Ryan Lanza, as the perpetrator. This was likely because the perpetrator was carrying his brother’s identification, Ryan told The Jersey Journal.[94] Lanza’s brother voluntarily submitted to questioning by New Jersey State Police, Connecticut State Police, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Police said he was not considered a suspect, and he was not taken into custody.[36][95][96] Ryan Lanza said he had not been in touch with his brother since 2010.[97][98] Connecticut State Police indicated their concern about misinformation being posted on social media sites and threatened prosecution of anyone involved with such activities.[99]

A large quantity of unused ammunition was recovered inside the school along with three semi-automatic firearms found with Lanza: a .223-caliber Bushmaster XM15-E2S rifle, a 10mm Glock 20SF handgun, and a 9mm SIG Sauer P226 handgun.[5] Outside the school, an Izhmash Saiga-12 shotgun was found in the car Lanza had driven.[5][7]

On March 28, 2013, court documents released from the investigation showed that the school shooting had occurred in the space of less than five minutes with 156 shots fired. This comprised 154 shots from the rifle and two shots from the 10mm pistol. Lanza fired one shot from the Glock in the hallway and killed himself with another shot from the pistol to the head.[100][101]

Off-site

Shortly after the shooting, police announced that Lanza used the rifle to kill the victims at the school.[102] At a press conference on December 15, Dr. H. Wayne Carver II, the Chief Medical Examiner of Connecticut, was asked about the wounds, and replied “All the ones that I know of at this point were caused by the long weapon.”[10][103][93] When asked if the children suffered before dying, Carver replied by stating that “If so, not for very long”.[104] Carver, whose office autopsied the victims and who personally performed seven, said the injuries were “devastating” and that parents identified their children from photographs to spare them the sight. All the child victims were first graders, and all were killed with the Bushmaster X15. Carver said the bullets used were “designed in such a fashion the energy is deposited in the tissue so the bullet stays in.”[10][82]

Investigators evaluated Lanza’s body, looking for evidence of drugs or medication through toxicology tests.[105] Unusually for an investigation of this type, DNA testing of Lanza was utilized.[106][107] The results of the toxicology report were published in October 2013, and stated that no alcohol or drugs were found in his system.[108] Lanza’s autopsy showed no tumors or gross deformities in his brain.[109]

Lanza removed the hard drive from his computer and damaged it prior to the shooting, creating a challenge for investigators to recover data.[110] At the time of publication of the final report, it had not been possible to recover data from it.[76] Police believe that Lanza extensively researched earlier mass shootings, including the 2011 Norway attacks and the 2006 West Nickel Mines School shooting at a one-room school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania. Police found that Lanza had downloaded videos relating to the Columbine High School massacre, other shootings and two videos of suicide by gunshot.[111]

Details of the investigation were reported by law enforcement officials at a meeting of the International Association of Police Chiefs and Colonels held during the week of March 11, 2013. An article published in the New York Daily News on March 17, 2013, provided purported details of this report by an anonymous law enforcement veteran who had attended the meeting.[112] The source stated that the investigation had found that Lanza had created a 7-by-4-foot sized spreadsheet listing around 500 mass murderers and the weapons they used, which was considered to have taken years of work and to have been used by Lanza as a “score sheet”.[112] On March 18, 2013, Lt. Paul Vance of the Connecticut State Police responded that the information from this meeting was “law enforcement sensitive information” and considered the release to be a leak.[113]

The March 28 documents also provided details on items found at Lanza’s home, including three samurai swords, a newspaper article about the Northern Illinois University shooting, and a National Rifle Association certificate.[100] The NRA denied that Adam Lanza or Nancy Lanza were members and reporters noted that the NRA site provides training certificate completion templates for courses offered by NRA Certified Instructors.[114] A gun safe was found in a bedroom and investigators found more than 1,400 rounds of ammunition and other firearms.[115] At home, Lanza had access to three more firearms: a .45 Henry rifle, a .30 Enfield rifle, and a .22 Marlin rifle.[116][117][118] These were legally owned by Lanza’s mother who was described as a gun enthusiast.[119][120] According to Time, authorities also found a photograph of Lanza holding a gun to his head at his home following his death.[121]

According to The New York Times, law enforcement officials commented that Lanza would spend most of his time in his basement doing solitary activities. According to the same officials, it also appeared that Lanza “may have taken target practice in the basement”.[122]

Final reports

State Attorney’s report

The final report of the State Attorney summarizing the investigation into the shooting was published on November 25, 2013. It concluded that Adam Lanza had acted alone, and that the case was closed. The report noted that “[Lanza] had a familiarity with and access to firearms and ammunition and an obsession with mass murders, in particular the April 1999 shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado.” The report did not identify a specific motive for the shooting, stating, “The evidence clearly shows that the shooter planned his actions, including the taking of his own life, but there is no clear indication why he did so, or why he targeted Sandy Hook elementary school.”[123][124]

On the question of Lanza’s state of mind, the report noted “significant mental health issues that affected his ability to live a normal life and to interact with others, even those to whom he should have been close… What contribution this made to the shootings, if any, is unknown as those mental health professionals who saw him did not see anything that would have predicted his future behavior.” The report found no evidence that Lanza had taken drugs or medication that would have affected his behavior, and observed, “‘Why did the shooter murder twenty-seven people, including twenty children?’ Unfortunately, that question may never be answered conclusively, despite the collection of extensive background information on the shooter through a multitude of interviews and other sources.”[76][125]

On December 27, 2013, police released thousands of pages of documents pertaining to the investigation. In accordance with law, the names of victims and witnesses were redacted or withheld. The summary report included information about items found on Lanza’s computer equipment, including writings and material about previous mass shootings.[126][127] A former teacher of Lanza’s noted that he exhibited antisocial behavior, rarely interacted with other students, and was obsessed with writing “about battles, destruction and war.”[128]

Report of the Office of the Child Advocate

The Report of the Office of the Child Advocate concluded: “There was not one thing that was necessarily the tipping point driving Lanza to commit the Sandy Hook shooting. Rather there was a cascade of events, many self-imposed, that included: loss of school; absence of work; disruption of the relationship with his one friend; virtually no personal contact with family; virtually total and increasing isolation; fear of losing his home and of a change in his relationship with Mrs. Lanza, his only caretaker and connection; worsening OCD; depression and anxiety; profound and possibly worsening anorexia; and an increasing obsession with mass murder occurring in the total absence of any engagement with the outside world. Adam increasingly lived in an alternate universe in which ruminations about mass shootings were his central preoccupation”.[129]

The authors also noted that despite multiple developmental and mental health problems, Lanza had not received adequate mental health treatment. They wrote: “It is fair to surmise that, had Lanza’s mental illness been adequately treated in the last years of his life, one predisposing factor to the tragedy of Sandy Hook might have been mitigated”.[130]

The report also tentatively disagreed with the conclusions of the State Attorney about why Lanza targeted Sandy Hook. They noted that “According to the FBI, shooters are likely to target places or people that are familiar to them… The elementary school may have been targeted because he could overpower people, a dynamic that is very important for mass shooters as they do not want to be thwarted”.[129]

Perpetrator

Adam Lanza
Born Adam Peter Lanza
April 22, 1992
Exeter, New Hampshire, U.S.
Died December 14, 2012 (aged 20)
Newtown, Connecticut, U.S.
Cause of death Self-inflicted gunshot wound
Nationality American
Alma mater Western Connecticut State University
Occupation None
Parent(s) Peter Lanza (father)
Nancy Lanza (mother)
 
Motive Inconclusive
Details
Date December 14, 2012
c. 9:35 a.m. – c. 9:40 a.m.
Location(s) Newtown, Connecticut, U.S.
Target(s) Students and staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School
Killed 28
Injured 2

Adam Peter Lanza (April 22, 1992 – December 14, 2012) and his mother lived in Sandy Hook, 5 miles (8 km) from the elementary school.[131] He did not have a criminal record.[13][132][133] He had access to guns through his mother, Nancy Lanza, who was described as a “gun enthusiast who owned at least a dozen firearms”.[134][135][136][137] Nancy often took her two sons to a local shooting range, where they learned to shoot.[138][139] Lanza’s father has said that he does not believe Nancy feared Adam. She did not confide any fear of Adam to her sister or to her best friend; she slept with her bedroom door unlocked and she kept guns in the house where she lived with Adam.[140]

Education

Lanza attended Sandy Hook Elementary School for four and a half years. He started at Newtown Middle School in 2004 but according to his mother, Nancy, he was ‘wracked by anxiety’. His mother told friends her son started getting upset at middle school because of frequent classroom changes during the day. The movement and noise was too stimulating and made him anxious. At one point his anxiety was so intense, his mother took him to the emergency room at Danbury Hospital. In April 2005, she moved him to a new school, St. Rose of Lima, where he lasted only eight weeks.[141]

At age 14, he went to Newtown High School, where he was named to the honor roll in 2007.[96][142] Students and teachers who knew him in high school described Lanza as “intelligent, but nervous and fidgety”. He avoided attracting attention and was uncomfortable socializing. He is not known to have had any close friends in school.[131] Schoolwork often triggered his underlying sense of hopelessness and by 2008, when Adam turned sixteen he was only going to school occasionally.[143] The intense anxiety Lanza experienced at the time suggests his autism was exacerbated by the hormonal shifts of adolescence.[143] He was taken out of high school and home-schooled by his mother and father. He earned a GED.[144] In 2008 and 2009, he also attended some classes at Western Connecticut State University.[145]

Developmental and mental health problems

Lanza presented with developmental challenges before the age of three. These included communication and sensory difficulties, socialization delays, and repetitive behaviors. He was seen by the New Hampshire “Birth to Three” intervention program and referred to special education preschool services.[146]Once at elementary school, he was diagnosed with a sensory-integration disorder. Sensory-processing disorder does not have official status by the medical community as a formal diagnosis but is frequently one of the characteristics of autism.[147] His anxiety impacted his ability to attend school and in 8th grade he was placed on “homebound” status. This is for children who are too disabled, even with supports and accommodations, to attend school.[148]

When he was thirteen, Lanza was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome by a psychiatrist, Paul Fox.[149] At fourteen his parents took him to Yale University’s Child Study Center where he was also diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder. He frequently washed his hands and changed his socks 20 times a day, to the point where his mother did three loads of laundry a day.[150] In addition, he would sometimes go through a box of tissues in one day because he could not touch a doorknob with his bare hand.[151]

Lanza was treated by Robert King who recommended extensive support be put in place and prescribed the antidepressant Celexa. He took the medication for three days. His mother Nancy reported: “On the third morning he complained of dizziness. By that afternoon he was disoriented, his speech was disjointed, he couldn’t even figure out how to open his cereal box. He was sweating profusely … it was actually dripping off his hands. He said he couldn’t think … He was practically vegetative”.[152] He never took the medication again.[153] A report from the Office of the Child Advocate found that

Yale’s recommendations for extensive special education supports, ongoing expert consultation, and rigorous therapeutic supports embedded into (Lanza’s) daily life went largely unheeded.[146]

In a 2013 interview, Peter Lanza said he suspected his son might have also suffered from undiagnosed schizophrenia in addition to his other conditions. Lanza said that family members might have missed signs of the onset of schizophrenia and psychotic behavior during his son’s adolescence because they mistakenly attributed his odd behavior and increasing isolation to Asperger syndrome.[145][140][154][155][156] Because of concerns that published accounts of Lanza’s autism could result in a backlash against others with the condition, autism advocates campaigned to clarify that autism is a brain-related developmental disorder and not a mental illness.[157] The violence demonstrated by Lanza in the shooting is generally not seen in the autistic population[158] and none of the psychiatrists he saw detected troubling signs of violence in his disposition.[152]

Lanza appears to have had no contact with mental health providers after 2006. The report from the Office of the Child Advocate stated: “In the course of Lanza’s entire life, minimal mental health evaluation and treatment (in relation to his apparent need) was obtained. Of the couple of providers that saw him, only one — the Yale Child Study Center — seemed to appreciate the gravity of (his) presentation, his need for extensive mental health and special education supports, and the critical need for medication to ease his obsessive-compulsive symptoms”.[148]

Investigators found Lanza was fascinated with mass shootings, most notably the Columbine High School massacre and the Northern Illinois University 2008 shooting. Among the clippings found in his room, there was a story from The New York Times about a man who shot at schoolchildren in 1891. His computer contained two videos of gunshot suicides, movies which showed school shootings and two pictures of Lanza pointing guns at his own head.[159][160]

This only came to light after Lanza died, because he never permitted others to access his bedroom, including his mother. Lanza had also taped over the windows with black plastic garbage bags to block out sunlight.[161] He had also chosen to cut off contact with both his father and brother in the two years before the shooting and at one point communicated with his mother, who lived in the same house, only by email. A document entitled “Selfish”, about the inherent selfishness of women, was found on Lanza’s computer after his death.[140][162]

Final months

According to a report issued by the Office of the Child Advocate in Connecticut in November 2014, Lanza may have suffered from anorexia as a teenager. The authors wrote that “Anorexia can produce cognitive impairment and it is likely that anorexia combined with an autism spectrum disorder and OCD compounded Lanza’s risk for suicide”.[163] They also noted that at the time of his death, Lanza “was anorexic (six feet [180 cm] tall and 112 pounds [51 kg]), to the point of malnutrition and resultant brain damage.”[164]

He was also living in almost total isolation in his room at home spending most of his time on the internet playing World of Warcraft and other video games. The report stated that he ‘descended’ into a world where his only communication with the outside world was with members of a cyber-community, “a small community of individuals that shared his dark and obsessive interest in mass murder”.[165] Although his mother was present, he only communicated with her via email.

In the weeks before the killings, Lanza’s mother was considering moving him to another town.[166] She planned to purchase a recreational vehicle for Adam to stay in so that potential purchasers could see the house without disturbing him.[167] The Report of the Child Advocate stated that:

In the wake of Mrs Lanza’s stated plan to move out of Sandy Hook in 2012, and perhaps stimulated by fears of leaving the “comfort zone” of his home, Adam planned and executed the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012.[168] His severe and deteriorating internalized mental health problems were combined with an atypical preoccupation with violence. Combined with access to deadly weapons, this proved a recipe for mass murder”.[169]

James Knoll, a forensic psychiatrist at SUNY was consulted about what motivated Lanza to kill. Knoll states that Lanza’s final act conveyed a distinct message:

I carry profound hurt — I’ll go ballistic and transfer it onto you. That’s as much motive as we’re likely to find.[170]

 



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    • Deadman

      Sandy Hook was a “false flag event”

    • Anonymous

      Stupidest. Headline. Ever. Click-whore BS. :smile:

    • raburgeson

      With children being sacrificed even by there parents and MK-Ultra around I believed there were victims. I didn’t believe anything else about the story.That lasted about a month and a half until a school security agent came forward and said it just was not possible.

    • unidentified

      it was all faked, the stories, the witnesses, the parents, the school kids, the fake school
      or it was a real murder scene and the students that were killed were sacrificed/murdered for some reason

      • Anonymous

        World War II was also faked. No one died there either. :cool:

        • Canderson

          Bullshit, and you are a “fucker” Sir.

        • DK

          Germany faked a Polish border incident to invade,(gleiwitz)
          Japan declared War on the US 24 hours after attacking Pearl Harbor, US readiness levels were kept at peacetime even though Japan had invaded Indochina in 1940 to the point of deliberately not training the early radar warning operatives including their CO, but for some strange reason the night before the 3 US carriers were sent out on exercises when a submarine was spotted outside pearl without their escorts.

    • Don - 1

      Why was Nancy’s car registered to Simon Rodia, a local drug dealing criminal? Oh BTW, no one was killed at that school. Telephone records for the school reveal that there was no telephone or Internet activity at that address for the previous 4 years before the hoax.

      Why were no wrongful death lawsuits filed? lol

      The car’s lic. plates parked in the school lot reveal they had all come from a Police Impound lot in another city. Props obviously.

    • Anonymous

      Fake events and fake politicians to go with it. Trump has done nothing at all about this staged fraud so no better.

    • Canderson

      Because you are part monkeys, the melting pot (none working), you all have become the plague of the Rudyard Kipling’s White Mans Burden (1899) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHTPBjCrdpk Just ask Opera. (She is not of giants, she is of freaks, 6 toes)

      About Cultural-Maxim-Communism and how it is used in one way only, only Whites can be racists, while they

      flood our Nation and re-colonizes it.

      What is DNA? Not a single person on this Earth share the same DNA. We are all still the same? It is only skin

      color? Opera does not understand Communism (undercover Satanism) = it is about sharing the common destiny as

      cattle, prey.

      Oprah Winfrey – White People Have to Die for Racism to Come to an End (She wants to kill all whites isn’t

      that racist?)
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYM8mYfK_oE

      This is Oprah proven:
      http://i0.wp.com/thealternativehypothesis.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/iq5.jpg?resize=580%2C381

      • Canderson

        It is about false flag like the sandy Hoax and the holo-hoax, because and especially because without the

        fabricated Nazi Jewish holocaust cultural Marxism can not exist, the white privilege. They that call

        themselves Jews are Asian, Mongol+Hun?Turkish on their mothers side, Asian hatred against real Whites, not

        Caucasus Asian white bullshit.
        stop
        re;
        Cultural Marxism is a furthering of Communism (economic system), now it breaks into the realm of sociology.

        Multi-multiculturalism is Cultural Marxism.

    • 2QIK4U

      Alex Jones is correct

    • Cousin_Jack

      Maybe its MSM? Look at what MSM is doing against Trump, maybe its played the same tricks before? Maybe America hasn’t swallowed it? Maybe you swallowed MSM?

    • Don - 1

      99% of America still cannot believe that cops, the Governor of CT, a US President and the media would lie to them.

      Obama went to the Sandy Hook Memorial Service and later backstage laughed his head off about it.

      Most Americans still have no clue about what happened at Sandy Hook…..they’re sound asleep.

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