The students interviewed described a normal Friday morning. Soto's students were sitting in a circle having just finished their morning meeting. They were about to read the messages on the Smart Board when they heard loud bangs that some thought was someone "banging a hammer."
They then described a man "busting into their room" holding a "long bazooka-style gun." They said he was wearing a green army jacket, seemed to have a beard and didn't say a word before shooting.
He then started firing at them, with one boy telling police the man "missed him" and then he ran out of the room as fast as he could.
After leaving the main office, the shooter then went down the same hallway in which he had just
killed two people and entered first grade classrooms 8 and 10, the order in which is unknown.
I know it's saying the order is unknown but I think this is the timeline that makes the most sense based on what has been released:
According to a survivor in Victoria's room, Lanza started firing at the class in their circle, and then ran out of the room. We know that the students who died in Victoria's room were killed when they ran out of their hiding spots, so it does not sound like anyone was killed in the circle. So I think that Lauren's class heard the gunshots, and started running into the bathroom. Adam went to that classroom, and killed everyone in the room but the lone survivor.
Then, he went back into Victoria's room. Articles have said that Victoria had finished hiding her students, when Lanza entered the classroom. Her sister said she heard Victoria's body was found near the classroom door, with her keys in her hand, like she was getting ready to lock the door. So maybe Lanza came back to Victoria's room, asked her where all her students were, and this is when she told him they were at the gym?
We know that the students who were killed in Victoria's room ran out of the hiding spots. We also know that the students who survived (and ran to the neighborhood house) were able to escape when Lanza had to recharge his gun. I am not sure what the order of all of that happened in.
It really does sound to me like Lanza entered Victoria's room twice, because the story that the one survivor gives about them sitting in a circle, and the story about how they were all in their hiding spots, and Victoria told Lanza they were at the gym could not have happened in the same instance. But if Lanza returned to the classroom, he would have likely asked Victoria "Where did they all go?" and then out of desperation, she would have said they were at the gym or wherever.
If you look at a map of the school, it shows that the first classroom Lanza passed was Kaitlyn Roig's classroom (Room 12) where they think the black paper on the windows made him think it was empty. The next classroom was Victoria's (Room 10). If my theory is correct about the timeline, I think the reason why Lanza did not kill the class when they were sitting in the circle is because he is very obsessed with order, and he felt that he had to kill the students in Classroom 8 (Lauren's room) before Classroom 10.
So does that make sense or is there some big piece of info I left out?
not sure what to say.
