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Was Connecticut Shooter, Adam Lanza, on Psychiatric Drugs? Medical Examiner Snubs Official Request for Toxicology Report

By Kelly Patricia O’Meara
March 15, 2013

While state and federal lawmakers frantically push for massive mental health reform and sweeping gun control laws, two Connecticut mothers recently took to the streets of Newtown, connecting with local residents and gathering signatures on a petition that asks a simple but essential question—did prescription psychiatric drugs play a role in the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting?

Seems like an easy and obvious question that, remarkably, has escaped the consideration of legislators who seem hell-bent on legislating increased mental health services without first having all the necessary information to make thoughtful, fact-based decisions.

Sheila Matthews, co-founder of AbleChild, a national parents’ rights organization, and Newtown resident, Patricia Sabato, went one-on-one with local residents to collect hundreds of signatures requesting the release of the complete autopsy/toxicology results and medical/psychiatric records of alleged shooter, Adam Lanza.

Read more: http://www.cchrint.org/2013/03/15/was-connecticut-shooter-adam-lanza-taking-psychiatric-drugs/
 
Friday, March 15, 2013

The Next Adam Lanza Before He Strikes

The New York Times reports today on a unique program going on in Los Angeles that identifies kids who fool around with guns and shrapnel and/or have said they want to shoot up a school. According to Erica Goode, the program hopes to find these ticking time bombs before they detonate.

They even have nicknames for the kids, calling one "Jared Loughner," after the man who mowed down people in the Colorado theater last year, who was obsessed with guns and killing, staying in touch with his mother to make sure the teen was stable and not showing any signs of committing violence, Goode writes.

Read more:

http://hotmedfax.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-next-adam-lanza-before-he-strikes.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/15/us/in-los-angeles-focusing-on-violence-before-it-occurs.html
 
The hotmed blog you linked to is worthless and is one of the reasons why generally speaking linking to blogs as sources is not allowed at WS. The NY Times article actually says (correctly):

"They called the mother of another teenager — they have nicknamed him “Jared Loughner,” after the man who shot Representative Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson in 2011 — who was obsessed with weapons and killing, had access to firearms and had extensively researched school shootings.

Focusing on Violence Before It Happens

By ERICA GOODE
Published: March 14, 2013
New York Times

LOS ANGELES — "In the days after the elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn., Tony Beliz and his staff at the county’s mental health department here made a series of calls.

They checked in with a 16-year-old boy with a fondness for bomb-making chemicals who, two years before, told them, “I have to get rid of the bad people in this world,” and described a “special plan” he said he would put into action in a few years."

And, much more...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/15/us/in-los-angeles-focusing-on-violence-before-it-occurs.html?_r=0
 
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They even have nicknames for the kids, calling one "Jared Loughner," after the man who mowed down people in the Colorado theater last year, who was obsessed with guns and killing, staying in touch with his mother to make sure the teen was stable and not showing any signs of committing violence, Goode writes.

Read more:

http://hotmedfax.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-next-adam-lanza-before-he-strikes.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/15/us/in-los-angeles-focusing-on-violence-before-it-occurs.html
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i.b.nora,

I hear you, lol...

It happens ...

But If it was not for the 1st source, however .. i might've not even ended at the 2nd source (the original source) ... so in cases like that, i have a habit of indicating both source.
 
Adam Lanza's Crime Against Newtown Unites Residents in Several Response Groups

Published: Saturday, March 16, 2013

By Mark Zaretsky
mzaretsky@nhregister.com
@markzar on Twitter

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Some of the volunteers that staff the Newtown Volunteer Task Force call center, including Robin Fitzgerald, lower left, and Deborra Zukowski, lower right. They are shown with some of the many items that are sent to the town from people all over the world, that needed to reach out after the Sandy Hook shootings. Photo by Peter Casolino/New Haven Register.

NEWTOWN — Until three months ago, Robin Fitzgerald was a “full-time stay-at-home mom.”

Po Murray, a mother of four with one kid in college, two in high school and one in intermediate school, was a self-described “soccer mom” who in her spare time volunteered for a program that arranges educational exchanges.

Lee Shull, the husband of a Reed Intermediate School teacher and father of seventh-grade fraternal twins who previously attended Sandy Hook Elementary School, was raising his family and working at his job at Dell Computers.

Sandy Hook residents Debra and Robert Accomando were raising their three boys while running a health care consulting business out of their home.

These days, all of their lives have been redirected and transformed.

They are among the hundreds of people in Newtown and beyond who have been moved to shift gears to a new or higher calling as a result of one of the worst mass shootings ever.

Read more: http://www.countytimes.com/articles/2013/03/16/news/doc5144fca51fc62447560583.txt?viewmode=fullstory
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Sandy Hook families rip Michael Moore's call to release crime scene photos

By Joshua Rhett Miller, Published March 15, 2013, FoxNews.com

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Filmmaker Michael Moore’s proposal to release crime scene photographs from Sandy Hook Elementary School would be a 'horrendous offense' to relatives of victims, Dorrie Carolan, co-president of the Newtown Parent Connection, Inc., told FoxNews.com. (AP)​

Filmmaker Michael Moore’s suggestion that showing crime scene photos of the children slain at Sandy Hook will hasten the demise of the National Rifle Association is not getting rave reviews in the shattered Connecticut community.

The left-wing social critic wrote in his blog Wednesday an item titled "America, You Must Not Look Away (How to Finish Off the NRA)," in which he recommended releasing the undoubtedly gruesome photos of the 20 children killed on Dec. 14, 2012, some of whom were shot up to 11 times. Moore said the fact that Americans have “done nothing to revise or repeal” the Second Amendment “makes us responsible.”

“ … and that is why we must look at the pictures of the 20 dead children laying (sic) with what's left of their bodies on the classroom floor in Newtown, Connecticut.”

Moore predicted a parent of a child killed in the horrific elementary school massacre or another high-profile mass shooting would make pictures available, adding “and then nothing about guns in this country will ever be the same again.”

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Jeremy Richman, whose 6-year-old daughter Avielle was killed in the attack by gunman Adam Lanza — a 20-year-old, mentally-troubled local man who later killed himself as police responded — said Moore’s idea is off-base.

“I would be very strongly against that,” an incredulous Richman said when being informed of Moore’s idea.

Another parent of a 6-year-old boy killed in the attack, in Newtown, Conn., was upset that such an idea would be proposed.

“You can imagine what my reaction to that is,” the outraged mom said, declining any further comment.

Several other parents of young victims declined to comment when reached by FoxNews.com. Attempts to reach Veronique Pozner, who took Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy by the hand to show him her son's body at his open-casket funeral in December, were unsuccessful.

Pozner later told a reporter that she "owed it" to her son, the youngest of the Newtown victims, when asked why she wanted Malloy to see the damage to Noah Pozner's body.

"I owed it to him as his mother — the good, the bad, the ugly," Pozner told the Stamford Advocate. "It is not up to me to say I am only going to look at you and deal with you when you are alive, that I am going to block out the reality of what you look like when you are dead. And as a little boy, you have to go in the ground. If I am going to shut my eyes to that I am not his mother. I had to bear it. I had to do it."

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/03/1...idents-blast-moore-crime-scene-photo-proposal - includes Video (5:25)
 
Active-shooter preparedness at the local, national level

Mar. 16, 2013 | Mary Rose Roberts | Fire Chief

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Active-shooter incidents continue to rise, so the fire service needs to take a serious look at preparing firefighters to protect themselves while saving victims trapped in nightmarish environments


Chief Bill Halstead needed to burn up vacation days. So instead of going to his day job on Dec. 14, 2012, he headed to the Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire and Rescue station in Newtown, Conn., about 800 feet away from the Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Halstead was inside when he heard sirens coming toward the station. He didn’t think much of it. As police and fire are on different radio frequencies — police on digital and fire on analog — he didn’t hear their dispatch about a gunman at the elementary school.

“I got the idea something was going on when I heard ambulances dispatched and told to stage behind the firehouse,” he said. “It was then when I realized that the sirens never went by. They just stopped.”

To get information, Halstead called dispatch. They informed him that there was an active shooter inside the elementary school and reported injuries.

Fire was dispatched as a medical call with a high volume of victims. Sandy Hook volunteer firefighters tapped into their mass-casualty training and set up a triage area with a second area designated in the fire station for the walking wounded. An area also was designated for children who were evacuated from the school and parents to either pick up their children or learn they had been shot and killed, Halstead said.

For the next nine days, Sandy Hook volunteer firefighters would be coping with their grief, dealing with nightmares of children shot dead and balancing shifts at the firehouse — which became a command post for multiple agencies. Agencies included the Connecticut State Police; the FBI; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF); the U.S. Marshals Office; and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.

Read more: http://firechief.com/mass-casualty/active-shooter-preparedness-local-national-level
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Teenager who plotted school massacre insists he would have carried out attack

Judge at Birmingham Youth Court praises Asperger's sufferer for his honesty and wishes him well for the future

By Amardeep Bassey, 16 Mar 2013 14:51

A Midland schoolboy who plotted to massacre classmates with a homemade bomb told police he would have carried out his evil plan if he thought he could have got away with it.

But the 16-year-old’s shock admission didn’t stop a judge at Birmingham Youth Court praising him for pleading guilty and wishing him well for the future.

District Judge Howard Riddle heard how the mentally ill boy, from Northamptonshire, had bought bomb-making chemicals online and had even drawn an elaborate seating plan of his intended victims.

Giving him an indefinite hospital order Judge Riddle told the teen, who cannot be named: “You have faced up to the fact that what you did was wrong and I think I speak for everyone when I say we all wish you well for the future.”

The teen, who suffers from Asperger’s, had drawn a detailed classroom map marked with “must die” “save” or “neutral” against each classmate’s name.

Read more: http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/teenager-who-plotted-school-massacre-1751691
 
Saturday, March 16, 2013 4:35 PM | Updated 8:40 PM

Police officers gather in Augusta for post-trauma training

By Steve Crawford, Staff Writer

When Sgt. Troy Anderson arrived in Newtown, Conn., the morning of Dec. 14, he had a different mission than the dozens of other police officers who had responded to one of the worst school shootings in American history.

Most were there to help the children and faculty at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

It was Anderson’s job to help the cops.

Anderson was there to help his fellow officers and other first responders deal with the flood of emotions and psychological trauma that comes with such high profile tragedies – known as critical incidents.

“This was something that no police officer could prepare for. There was no way to be psychologically ready for that event,” said Anderson, the coordinator for the Connecticut State Police STOPS program, which stands for State Troopers Offering Peer Support.

Anderson will be in Augusta this week for the state’s first Post Critical Incident Seminar, which will gather area officers who have experienced on-the-job tragedies with those from other agencies across the nation. He is part of the growing field of peer counseling and critical incident stress management that was once unheard of in the world of police work...

Read more: http://m.chronicle.augusta.com/news...-officers-gather-augusta-post-trauma-training
 
Father Bob Remains Source Of Comfort In Newtown

By DAVE ALTIMARI, daltimar@courant.com
The Hartford Courant, 11:00 p.m. EDT, March 16, 2013

NEWTOWN ——

As he stood near the front door of the Sandy Hook Elementary School on the morning of Dec. 14, shattered glass near his feet, Monsignor Robert Weiss knew he was as close to evil as he would ever get.

Newtown police officers had asked the pastor of nearby St. Rose of Lima church to go into the school and bless the bodies of the 26 people, including 20 children, massacred only moments earlier by Adam Lanza.

Weiss, known as Father Bob to almost everyone in the tight-knit community, was the first religious person on the scene. He said he felt an obligation to the souls lost inside until he got close enough to see heavily armed police officers still running into the school.

"Some of the officers had told me that I didn't want to see what was in those classrooms,'' Weiss said. "I didn't think there was a need to go into the school.''

Weiss said a prayer for the dead near the front entrance and then went back up to the nearby firehouse. It was then that he began to realize the enormity of the tragedy facing the families of the dead and the town itself.

The monsignor stayed at the firehouse all day and then went back to his church, located not more than a mile from the school, to help lead an impromptu memorial service that drew more than 1,000 people.

Read more: http://www.courant.com/news/connect...wn-father-bob-20130316-1,0,6576375,full.story
 
Newtown parents push Silicon Valley leaders for tech to curb gun violence

Published: Saturday, March 16, 2013, By JOSH RICHMAN, Bay Area News Group

SAN FRANCISCO -- Three months after their children were slaughtered, parents of Sandy Hook Elementary School students joined forces with Silicon Valley to find high-tech solutions to the nation's epidemic of gun violence.

The parents have already testified to Connecticut's legislature and to Congress in favor of stricter gun-control laws -- including the federal assault-weapons ban that the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee approved Thursday on a party-line vote. But this week, the Newtown parents flew across the country to begin exploring how the valley's technology can cut the number of people killed in America by guns.

If the guns that Connecticut shooter Adam Lanza took from his mother employed a "smartgun" technology that allowed only the owner to fire them, 20 children and six educators might still be alive today, valley investors say.

Among the Newtown parents who came to the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium on Thursday were Mark and Jackie Barden. They talked about how their son, 7-year-old Daniel, would have seen the promise of saving lives with technology.

"He would look into his heart and try to fix things," Mark Barden said. "And I can't tell you how much it touches us that you are looking into your hearts, taking your time and talents and devoting yourselves to fixing this."

Read more: http://www.dailyfreeman.com/article...5144c6648408b908911647.txt?viewmode=fullstory
 
Dozens of charities spring up in Newtown

Nanci G. Hutson

Published 10:19 pm, Saturday, March 16, 2013

NEWTOWN -- While millions of dollars have been donated in response to the tragedy of Dec. 14, more than two dozen funds, foundations and charities have sprung up in town with a wide variety of goals.

One charity wants to erect a carousel, another to build a memorial sidewalk, and one aims to place angels on the top of the Main Street flagpole.

Whether the town will grant permission for all the good intentions to materialize into granite benches, playgrounds or 26 flowering trees is an unanswered question at this point.

Three months since 20 first-graders and six educators were killed in Sandy Hook Elementary School, the town is still dealing with the many ramifications.

Read more: http://www.greenwichtime.com/local/article/Dozens-of-charities-spring-up-in-Newtown-4360649.php
 
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Dozens of charities spring up in Newtown

Nanci G. Hutson

Published 10:19 pm, Saturday, March 16, 2013

NEWTOWN -- While millions of dollars have been donated in response to the tragedy of Dec. 14, more than two dozen funds, foundations and charities have sprung up in town with a wide variety of goals.

One charity wants to erect a carousel, another to build a memorial sidewalk, and one aims to place angels on the top of the Main Street flagpole.

Whether the town will grant permission for all the good intentions to materialize into granite benches, playgrounds or 26 flowering trees is an unanswered question at this point.

Three months since 20 first-graders and six educators were killed in Sandy Hook Elementary School, the town is still dealing with the many ramifications.

Read more: http://www.greenwichtime.com/local/article/Dozens-of-charities-spring-up-in-Newtown-4360649.php
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If they are flush with donations, maybe the humanitarian thing to do would be to use the funds to easy establish a positive program for youth to stay out of gangs and end senseless violence in... I don't know maybe a city whose senseless killings of children far outweighs Newtown... Chicago. Brand it in memory of the Newtown victims and do something meaningful with all this money.
 
Newtown Legislators All Back Privacy Restrictions On Vital Records

By John Voket, Friday, February 22, 2013

On Wednesday, February 20, Newtown’s delegation of legislators Representatives Mitch Bolinsky, DebraLee Hovey, and Dan Carter joined members of the local town clerk’s staff supporting a bill to better protect the privacy of Sandy Hook families and others following the death of a child.

A release regarding the local delegation’s support was issued after several hours of testimony before the legislature’s Public Health Committee

The proposal before the committee, HB 5733, would allow officials to restrict access to the death certificates of children when it is likely to cause undue hardship for the family of the child. Current law allows any adult the ability to purchase a copy of the death certificate of any resident from their municipality’s town clerk.

The bill was prompted after Town Clerk Debbie Aurelia was inundated with media inquiries following the shootings at Sandy Hook, jeopardizing families’ privacy and capitalizing on their grief.

Read more: http://newtownbee.com/news/0001/11/30/newtown-legislators-all-back-privacy-restrictions/5012
 
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