Connecticut school district on lockdown after shooting report at a Newtown elemen #11

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Commission weighs challenge on Newtown 911 calls

By The Associated Press

Updated: Monday, June 3, 2013, 4:13 pm
Published: Monday, June 3, 2013, 2:20 pm

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A state Freedom of Information commission on Monday ordered Newtown officials to provide it with 911 calls from the day of the shooting inside Sandy Hook Elementary School as it considers an appeal for their release by The Associated Press.

A hearing officer, Kathleen Ross, directed the town to provide the copies to the FOI commission within two weeks. She said the commission would weigh objections raised by investigators as it evaluates whether the material should be made available publicly.

The prosecutor leading the investigation into the massacre, Danbury State’s Attorney Stephen Sedensky III, argued that releasing the calls could jeopardize the ongoing probe, subject witnesses to harassment from conspiracy theorists who have suggested the shooting never took place, and expose callers who should be protected as witnesses to a crime that amounted to child abuse.

“What you have here is a child abuse case,” Sedensky said. “Twenty children were murdered.”

The AP requested documents including copies of 911 calls in part to examine how well law enforcement responded to one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history.

The town ultimately denied the AP’s request, citing legal exemptions that allow the government to withhold documents if they claim they’re being used for an ongoing investigation and should remain secret. The AP appealed to the state’s Freedom of Information Commission and compelled Newtown’s police chief to testify about the records at the hearing.

The governor’s office and legislative leaders also have taken steps to prevent 911 call recordings from ever being released...

Kehoe said that prior to the shooting Newtown had records for only two police calls at the Lanza house: one for a suspicious person in 2003 and another for larceny in 2006.

Read more: http://www.kansasfirstnews.com/2013/06/03/commission-weighs-challenge-on-newtown-911-calls/

 

[onebyone]

Good to see there was a nice service for Nancy Lanza. Thanks for sharing those links, and everything else that you share Dark Man.

 

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Legislature approves Newtown exemptions

Ken Dixon

Updated 6:23 am, Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Armed federal agents approach Sandy Hook Elementary School in response to shootings that killed 20 children and six teachers on Friday, Dec. 14, 2012. Photo: Michael Duffy​

HARTFORD -- In a dramatic conclusion to days of negotiations and controversy over access to public records in the aftermath of the Newtown school massacre, lawmakers early this morning approved legislation to make all murder-scene video and photos private and to embargo the Dec.14 radio recordings of police describing the dead at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

As families of the Newtown victims looked on in the hushed Senate chamber, Senate President Pro Tempore Donald E. Williams Jr. and Senate Minority Leader John McKinney said the bill, brokered among lawmakers and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's staff, is their best effort to balance the public's right to know with the desire to protect the families from the release of graphic depictions of the 20 dead children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

The recording embargo does not include the 9-1-1 recordings of the Dec. 14 murders, nor does it allow the Newtown town clerk to withhold death certificates as she has since the slaughter and which would have been allowed in an early draft of the bill.

The identities of minor child witnesses will be redacted from the final report of the crime, as well. The embargo on the police recordings will end on May 7 of next year.

Read more: http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Legislature-approves-Newtown-exemptions-4576673.php (includes Photo Gallery)

 

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NY Woman Pleads Guilty to Newtown Shooting Fraud

By Associated Press | June 6, 2013
Last Updated: June 6, 2013 6:32 pm

BRIDGEPORT, Conn.—A New York City woman pleaded guilty Thursday to engaging in a fraudulent fundraising scheme in which she posed as the aunt of a child killed in the mass shooting at a Connecticut elementary school in December.

Nouel Alba, 37, of the Bronx, pleaded guilty in Bridgeport, Conn., to wire fraud and making false statements, the U.S. attorney’s office said.

Alba, who has been released on a $50,000 bond since her arrest Dec. 27, is scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 29. She faces up to 20 years in prison on the wire fraud count and up to five years for making false statements.

Alba claimed to have met and cried with President Barack Obama at a prayer service for the victims and to have identified her nephew’s body, authorities said.

Telephone and email messages left for her attorneys were not immediately returned.

Read more: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/94747-ny-woman-pleads-guilty-to-newtown-shooting-fraud/

 

[Darkman00]

from elsewhere on the net:

"Adam Lanza's Dad Helps Decide Where Next Sandy Hook School is Built"

WTF.

"Ms Alzapiedi and Ms Rallo [of Peter Lanza's company, GE Capital] worked together throughout the Sandy Hook School Task Force decisionmaking process tied to selecting a school facility rebuilding site, including being on hand for a series of Friday night task force meetings leading up to the panel’s final decision."

Source: RE:

Newtown’s GE Support Team Updates Selectmen On Progress

By John Voket

Friday, June 7, 2013

Read more: http://newtownbee.com/news/0001/11/30/newtown-s-ge-support-team-updates-selectmen-progre/141922

 

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At Colt’s Connecticut factory, no apologies for arming America – CNN International

Posted by admin on Jun 8th, 2013

Jan Gwinnell uses a tiny hammer to engrave an intricate design onto the cylinder of a Colt revolver in the custom design shop at Colt Manufacturing Company’s headquarters in West Hartford, Connecticut.

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Read more: http://www.latestcurrentnews.com/at...ologies-for-arming-america-cnn-international/​

 

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Six months since Sandy Hook: Newtown residents find their voice

By Wayne Drash, CNN

updated 11:32 AM EDT, Sat June 8, 2013

Newtown, Connecticut (CNN) -- The door to the shuttered mental hospital swings open onto a scene of decay: Chunks of fallen plaster and mold-infested insulation rest on the floor of a once magnificent room.

Chandeliers have given way to crumbling ceilings. Walls are stained from rain running down the sides after two decades of neglect.

Standing amid the ruins, it's hard not to think about Adam Lanza, our mental health system -- and whether it failed him and the people of Newtown.

The hilltop campus of Fairfield Hills, a former Connecticut state mental institution that closed in 1995 after more than 60 years, overlooks the community.

To the left, about a half mile down Church Hill Road, stands the National Sports Shooting Foundation, a lobbying arm for the gun industry. To the right and around a few bends sits Sandy Hook Elementary School, the site of the horrific massacre of 26 people, including 20 children.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/08/us/newtown-six-months-later/

 

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Concert Saturday In Newtown To Highlight Sandy Hook Promise

By ERIK OFGANG, Special To The Courant
The Hartford Courant
June 7, 2013

Musician Peter Yarrow, of Peter, Paul and Mary, has lent his voice to champion many social causes; latest is rallying support for the children of Newtown. (June 6, 2013)


As a member of the folk group Peter, Paul and Mary, Peter Yarrow has lent his voice in support of the civil rights movement and many other social causes. On Saturday, he's coming to Newtown to perform in a concert to support the Sandy Hook community and its children.

Yarrow is scheduled to perform at 9 p.m. at the Newtown Congregational Church, 14 West St.

His performance is part of an event called "Within Our Reach: A Gathering of Song and Spoken Word." A choir featuring Newtown children, Newtown Youth Voices, will be joined by Yarrow, poet Martin Espada, singer Vaneese Thomas, and other guests.

The concert is planned to extend past midnight into June 9, which is National Children's Day. At midnight, bells will be rung across Newtown, and over the weekend bells will be rung in solidarity at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., and Grace Cathedral in San Francisco.

Read more: http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-newtown-concert-0607-20130607,0,2355825.story
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[Darkman00]

State Sets Aside $50 Million for New Sandy Hook School

Posted by Davis Dunavin (Editor), June 7, 2013 at 12:10 am

Since the Dec. 14 shooting, Newtown officials have publicly relayed promises from state lawmakers that Connecticut would contribute to the price of a rebuilt Sandy Hook Elementary School.

On Thursday, state lawmakers made good on those promises.

As one of the final acts of the year's legislative session, legislators included a package of up to $50 million for the new school, expected to be built on the site of the old school at 12 Dickenson Drive in Sandy Hook.

Read more: http://newtown.patch.com/groups/politics-and-elections/p/state-50-million-to-new-sandy-hook-school

 

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Sandy Hook families 'marching to different drummers'

Nanci G. Hutson and Dirk Perrefort

Updated 9:34 pm, Saturday, June 8, 2013

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 17: Mark Barden, the father of a victim at Sandy Hook Elementary School, joins U.S. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden in making a statement on gun violence in the Rose Garden of the White House on April 17, 2013 in Washington, DC. Earlier today the Senate defeated a bi-partisan measure to expand background checks for gun sales. Also pictured are family members of gun violence victims, and victims of gun violence, Gabby Giffords, Jimmy Greene, Nicole Hockley, Jeremy Richman, Neil Heslin, Jackie Barden, Natalie Barden and James Barden. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Photo: Win McNamee, Getty Images

NEWTOWN -- Neil Heslin never expected his 6-year-old to be the poster boy for anything. But these days a portrait of his slain son, Jesse Lewis, is often clutched in his hands as he makes the case for gun control to politicians across the land.

Jeremy Richman and his wife, Jennifer Hensel, are scientists who are pushing for more research into the causes of the sort of violence that took the life of their only child, Avielle.

Danielle Vabner watched as her family grew closer after the death of her brother, Noah, at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Now, the 19-year-old says, the strains of the last few months are tearing at those bonds.

They stand together but they are also alone, the 26 families of the Sandy Hook shooting victims.

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Read more: http://www.greenwichtime.com/local/article/Sandy-Hook-families-marching-to-different-4589110.php (includes Photo Gallery)​

 

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Conn. lawmakers not done yet with Newtown issues

By SUSAN HAIGH / Associated Press / June 8, 2013

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Even though Connecticut lawmakers have passed numerous bills addressing the school shooting in Newtown, their work on the subject is far from finished.

When they return to the state Capitol in February for the next regular legislative session, members of the General Assembly expect to receive numerous recommendations for new laws from task forces and commissions charged with reviewing various matters related to the Dec. 14 massacre such as the adequacy of behavioral health services in Connecticut, school safety standards and possible changes to open government laws that would protect the privacy of victims and their families.

‘‘We’re not done talking about Newtown,’’ said Mark Ojakian, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s chief of staff. This year’s legislative session ended at midnight Wednesday.

Read more: http://www.boston.com/news/educatio...town-issues/UmbjpULbqq2YJ8u0ngCRSJ/story.html

 

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Newtown, Connecticut, schools placed on lockdown after threat

Mon Jun 10, 2013 5:32pm EDT


NEW YORK (Reuters) - Newtown, Connecticut, put its school system on lockdown on Monday afternoon after a threatening call was placed to an elementary school about a mile from the site of a mass shooting six months ago.

The Hawley school, one of Newtown's four elementary schools, received a phone call shortly after 2 p.m. ET on Monday that contained "an implied threat to the Hawley staff and students," Superintendent John Reed said in an email message to parents.

No one was injured and no threat was found after the brief closure.

Read more: http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCABRE95914C20130610

 

[Darkman00]

Newtown, Connecticut places schools in 'modified lockdown' Monday in response to threatening call made to elementary school

An 'unspecified threat' was called into the Hawley School, an elementary school in the town still reeling from the Sandy Hook bloodshed

The scare came almost exactly 6 months after the December massacre where Adam Lanza gunned down 26 people at the Connecticut elementary school

By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED:19:19 GMT, 10 June 2013| UPDATED:22:02 GMT, 10 June 2013

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...nts-schools-district-briefly-locked-down.html
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Harry Connick Jr. song to remember Winnipeg girl killed in Newtown

Love Wins written for Ana Marquez-Greene

CBC News

Posted: Jun 10, 2013 10:49 AM ET

Last Updated: Jun 10, 2013 5:16 PM ET

Well-known jazz musician and entertainer Harry Connick Jr. has written a song to help a former Winnipeg family who lost their little girl in the Newtown, Connecticut mass shooting last year.

Love Wins is the name of the song he wrote for six-year-old Ana Marquez-Greene. She was the daughter of Jimmy Greene, a saxophonist and a long-time friend and band member of Harry Connick Jr.
She was one of 20 students and six staff members killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School after a gunman opened fire on Dec. 14 before taking his own life.
The family had recently moved from Canada to the U.S. The song Love Wins will be released Tuesday with all proceeds going to a fund in her name to help her family.

Connick sang at Ana Grace's funeral and says he was inspired by a speaker at the service who said love trumps the greatest tragedies.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2...shooting-ana-marquez-greene-song-connick.html

 

[Darkman00]

Six months after Newtown shootings, we have nothing to show but pain

The massacre in Connecticut took the lives of 26 people, but there's nothing to show for it in the form of gun control, legislation or even safer streets, with even more mass shootings having taken place and more people dead. It seems the legacy of this tragedy will only be hurt.

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Saturday, June 15, 2013, 12:52 AM

James Mattioli, 6, was killed six months ago during the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. / CYNTHIA MCINTYRE PHOTOGRAPHY/Caters News Agency

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Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/lupica-show-newtown-pain-article-1.1373469​

 

[Darkman00]

"I stumbled across this information on the obituary of Peter Lanza's father (who sounded like an incredible man)..."

The obituary of Peter S. Lanza from 2010 ... A father of Peter J. Lanza /Ryan and Adam Lanza's grandfather.

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December 7, 2010

Peter S. Lanza, 83

PLAISTOW, N.H. — Peter S. Lanza, 83, a resident of Newton Road, Plaistow, died Sunday, Dec. 5, 2010 at Methuen Health and Rehabilitation Center in Methuen.

Born and raised in Haverhill, son of the late Michael and Mary (Simone) Lanza, he attended local schools and was a member of the Haverhill High School, Class of 1945.

An investment broker and insurance salesman, Mr. Lanza worked for the John Hancock Life Insurance Co. for 37 years until his retirement. He was a recipient of numerous achievement awards presented by the John Hancock Company including the President's Club Award and the National and Regional Honor Club Awards.

He was also an accomplished musician and played bass as a member of the former Ray Gardella Band, which was well known in the area by many generations of local residents providing music for weddings and other social events as well as entertainment on Saturday evenings at the former Lake Shores Club in Georgetown.

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The husband of the late Elodia (Wilkinson) Lanza, he is survived by sons, Michael Lanza and his wife Marsha of Crystal Lake, Ill., Mark S. Lanza and his wife Cindy of Plaistow, and Peter J. Lanza and Shelley Cudiner of Stamford, Conn.; a sister, Rose Lanza of Plaistow and Glen, N.H.; grandchildren, Jeff, Michael, Brian, Daniel, Andrew, Mark, Charles, Stephanie, Ryan and Adam.

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Read more: http://www.eagletribune.com/obituaries/x1894465863/Peter-S-Lanza-83​

BBM
"it does contain some interesting information. It mentions that Ryan AND Adam were indeed his grandchildren, and Peter's new wife Shelley Cudiner."

 

[Darkman00]

Re: the obituary (in above post)

... the Wayback Machine shows it to be unedited since it's original publication on Dec. 7, 2010.

So basically nothing was inserted into the orbituary recently ... - which confirms the existance of both, Ryan Lanza and Adam Lanza

Source / Check it out for yourself: http://web.archive.org/web/20101207...e.com/obituaries/x1894465863/Peter-S-Lanza-83

 

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Bushmaster CEO On Newtown: 'It's Very Easy To Blame An Inanimate Object'

Posted: 06/14/2013 4:08 pm EDT | Updated: 06/14/2013 4:29 pm EDT


For the first time since Adam Lanza used a Bushmaster .223 rifle to kill 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the CEO of Freedom Group, which owns the firearms maker, has something to say about the controversy.

“It’s very easy to blame an inanimate object," George Kollitides told the Washington Times in an exclusive interview. "Any kind of instrument in the wrong hands can be put to evil use."

Kollitides' comments come six months after the tragic shooting, which reignited a nationwide debate on gun rights and led to a failed attempt in the Senate to ban certain types of assault weapons.

Reada more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/14/bushmaster-newtown-ceo_n_3443364.html

 

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State legislators not done with Newtown

Posted: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 12:00 am

Associated Press

HARTFORD - Even though Connecticut lawmakers have passed numerous bills addressing the school shooting in Newtown, their work on the subject is far from finished.

When they return to the state Capitol in February for the next regular legislative session, members of the General Assembly expect to receive numerous recommendations for new laws from task forces and commissions charged with reviewing various matters related to the Dec. 14 massacre such as the adequacy of behavioral health services in Connecticut, school safety standards and possible changes to open government laws that would protect the privacy of victims and their families.

"We're not done talking about Newtown," said Mark Ojakian, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's chief of staff. This year's legislative session ended at midnight Wednesday.

Read more: http://www.myrecordjournal.com/northhavencitizen/article_4e31e23c-d467-11e2-bfce-0019bb2963f4.html

 

[nao]

Quote #834
one of the final acts of the year's legislative session, legislators included a package of up to $50 million for the new school, expected to be built on the site of the old school at 12 Dickenson Drive in Sandy Hook.

Why? is there not more usefull things that could be done with $50 million. jmo