Sandy Hook gunman forced his way into the school, police say - Mother never worked at the school

[underpants]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/gunman-kills-mother-then-26-in-grade-school-rampage-in-connecticut/2012/12/15/9017a784-46b6-11e2-8061-253bccfc7532_story.html

NEWTOWN, Conn. — The man responsible for massacring 26 people, mostly children, at a small-town Connecticut elementary school forced his way into the building, authorities said Saturday.

“We have established a point of entry,” Vance said, declining to elaborate. “He was not let in voluntarily ... [He] forced his way into the school.”

Sandy Hook’s principal, Dawn Hochsprung, had recently installed a new security system in which the school doors were kept locked all day starting at 9:30 a.m. Some parents and other officials initially speculated that the the shooter likely was able to walk in unquestioned because school employees knew he was a teacher’s son. Authorities said that was not the case.

It also remained unclear early Saturday whether Nancy Lanza, the shooter’s mother, was indeed a teacher at the school. Numerous reports on Friday, including those in the Washington Post, initially identified her as a kindergarten teacher there, but Newtown Schools superintendent Janet Robinson said there is no record that Nancy Lanza ever worked at the school, according to ABC News.

[underpants]

1. "the shooter didn’t utter a word" - another Wash.Post article

In Newtown, Robert Licata said his 6-year-old son was in class when the gunman burst in and shot the teacher. “That’s when my son grabbed a bunch of his friends and ran out the door,” he said. “He was very brave. He waited for his friends.”

He said the shooter didn’t utter a word.

Kaitlin Roig, a teacher at the school, said she implored her students to be quiet.

“I told them we had to be absolutely quiet. Because I was just so afraid if he did come in, then he would hear us and just start shooting the door. I said we have to be absolutely quiet. And I said there are bad guys out there now and we need to wait for the good guys to come get us out,” Roig told ABC.

“If they started crying, I would take their face and say, ‘It’s going to be OK. Show me your smile,’” she said. “They said, ‘We want to go home for Christmas. Yes, yeah. I just want to hug my mom.’ Things like that, that were just heartbreaking.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/conn-police-27-killed-in-school-shooting-including-gunman-and-20-kids-1-dead-at-2nd-scene/2012/12/14/5f05622c-464c-11e2-8c8f-fbebf7ccab4e_story_2.html


This article confirms that he forced his way into the school and that his mother never worked there.

[MrsBrady]

2. ok so is his mother dead?

I'm confused.

Why did they think she worked there?

and is the killing in Hoboken NJ still connected, or was that bad info too?

[cthulu2016]

3. It turns out there was no killing in Hoboken

[underpants]

6. He killed his mother in Newtown CT - his brother lives in Hoboken.

I don't recall there being a report of a killing on Hoboken but this story has changed a lot over the last two days.

[MrsBrady]

7. so he killed is mother where?

at her home?

[underpants]

11. Apparently so

The NY Daily News (so you know the source) has this info:

“She said she would often go target shooting with her kids,” landscaper Dan Holmes said.

Holmes, who often mowed the grass at the Lanza’s sprawling Newtown home, told Reuters the doomed mom was proud of her arsenal and once showed him a “high end rifle” she had just purchased.

Lanza’s dad, Peter, a successful financial services expert, was divorced from his mother. But it was the dad, who reportedly took the divorce hard. And he made sure his ex, and his kids, were well provided for.

Peter Lanza was paying his ex annual alimony payments that started at $240,000 and would have reached $298,800 in 2015. He left her the family home before he decamped for Stamford.

How Lanza reacted to his parents’ divorce was also unclear, but a family insider told The Daily News after the killings that they were “lovely, very generous people who were very kind to each other during the divorce.”
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021990374

[RomneyLies]

4. Okay, did Adam Lanza attend school there over a decade ago?

The more we learn, the weirder it gets.

[underpants]

5. In the first link and the one after that it says that yes he did attend school there n/t

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. MSNBC just reported he had an altercation with 4 staff members the day before.

He killed 3 of them. The 4th one wasn't there on Friday.

[leeroysphitz]

10. What was he doing there the day before? What is going on here? Anyone?

[underpants]

12. we still don’t know the “substance or nature” of the argument

NBC’s Pete Williams reported Saturday on the Today Show that Adam Lanza was allegedly involved in an altercation at Sandy Hook Elementary School the day before the shooting.

Williams said though we still don’t know the “substance or nature” of the argument, the staff member’s testimony might be an “important piece of information” for discerning motive in this case.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/adam-lanza-reportedly-in-altercation-at-school-day-before-shooting/

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. Thank you. I was just bashed for pointing this out.

I alerted and the jury voted to leave it alone.

I guess facts don't matter to everyone.

[jody]

13. Facts don't matter when rants are loose. nt