Connecticut school district on lockdown after shooting report at a Newtown elemen #6

[Elley Mae]

She said she met Nancy Lanza playing bunco, a popular dice game, with a group of women in the neighborhood, but she hadn't seen her for years since she stopped playing with the group. "She was just a sweet, caring person," Cullens said.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/hc-adam-lanza-newtown-shooting-1216-20121215,0,6228108.story?page=3

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[time]

She [Nancy Lanza] seems even to have imagined that firing guns was therapeutic for young Adam Lanza. She reportedly told a friend that it helped him become more focused and confident.

“How about bowling?” a detective said on hearing this after the massacre.

Read more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...-to-keep-guns-at-home-with-troubled-adam.html

Very interesting article, more interesting how it is written and the questions it raises ... thanks for the link.

 

[jjenny]

She said she met Nancy Lanza playing bunco, a popular dice game, with a group of women in the neighborhood, but she hadn't seen her for years since she stopped playing with the group. "She was just a sweet, caring person," Cullens said.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/hc-adam-lanza-newtown-shooting-1216-20121215,0,6228108.story?page=3

bbm

Seems like Nancy took up guns as a hobby in the last three years or so.
At about same time her son quit going to college and was probably spending time in his basement playing videogames.

 

[amandab]

She said she met Nancy Lanza playing bunco, a popular dice game, with a group of women in the neighborhood, but she hadn't seen her for years since she stopped playing with the group. "She was just a sweet, caring person," Cullens said.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/hc-adam-lanza-newtown-shooting-1216-20121215,0,6228108.story?page=3

bbm

that is very telling - i wonder how much NL had been withdrawing in recent years?.......

 

[nursebeeme]

Fwiw (not much as of now) "former classmate" Trevor Todd is claiming (in National Enquirer via Daily Mail, link below) that Adam Lanza made an "on-line devil worshipping" page.

http://tinyurl.com/bnqkb9v

bbm: :dramaqueen:

 

[callyn]

Thank you! There's a lot of sneaky, sniping going on about NL, and I believe it needs to STOP. It is my understanding she is a victim. All those who know what they would have done in her shoes, or think they would have known better need to stop. None of us know what we would or could have done, and none of us is perfect. This makes me sick.

Thank you button was not enough! Don't know how to double quote, so thank you to not_my_kids also. We don't know anything much for sure and this wild speculating about this poor woman is sickening to me :furious:

 

[oceanblueeyes]

that is very telling - i wonder how much NL had been withdrawing in recent years?.......

I dont think Nancy was withdrawing. The owner of the restaurant/bar said she was a regular and would come in about three times a week to order take out food and would sit there and have a glass of wine or two. They also said she did volunteer charity work.

She seemed to be a social butterfly but sadly her youngest son wasnt.

IMO

 

[gngr~snap]

Actually, that's a very good point. I've played Bunco and it gets very very loud -ringing bells and lots of screaming. A large group of screaming, cackling women probably would make him uncomfortable.
jmo

:waitasec: Shooting ranges and some video games are pretty loud too.
He liked them.

 

[not_my_kids]

A kid at one of the local high schools here sent his mother a text that there were shots fired and they were hiding in the closet. Turned out to be a complete hoax on the kid's part.

I hope they file charges. It's a high schooler, so it's safe to say they know better.

 

[oceanblueeyes]

Seems like Nancy took up guns as a hobby in the last three years or so.
At about same time her son quit going to college and was probably spending time in his basement playing videogames.

I recall reading she first bought guns for protection when she became divorced and then she went with some of her friends to the shooting range one day and enjoyed it. She probably bought the .223 rifle for target shooting as well. Although it wouldnt be unheard of if she also like to hunt wild game either since she grew up on a farm.

IMO

 

[~n/t~]

I dont think Nancy was withdrawing. The owner of the restaurant/bar said she was a regular and would come in about three times a week to order take out food and would sit there and have a glass of wine or two. They also said she did volunteer charity work.

She seemed to be a social butterfly but sadly her youngest son wasnt.

IMO

Thanks ocean. I was just about to reply. There are so many conflicting reports it's getting ridiculous.

One media outlet says one thing and then another reports something totally the opposite.

The 3 friends were interviewed on CNN and you are correct, she still met up with them. As a matter of fact, IIRC, the lady friend said she was there just a few days before the shooting. IMO

 

[DEPUTYDAWG]

that is very telling - i wonder how much NL had been withdrawing in recent years?.......

That's a good question.

And I'm really wondering about all the travel she said she's done in the last year. Was that fact, or ? I know she wrote it, but....

 

[txsvicki]

Since he had Aspergers no one may have known what he was thinking if a mental illness developed and he didb't talk much. He may have appeared gentle and afraid of people but been imagining that someone was out to get him and fantasizing about the guns. Not much else has been said about the huge childhood melt downs reported early on. I wonder if those continued at home.

 

[ami]

:waitasec: Shooting ranges and some video games are pretty loud too.
He liked them.

Oh, it can be so different depending on the kind and level of noise. My over-sensitive, autistic and emotionally withdrawn brother loved to bang pots and pans together right in front of his own face, rhythmically, but would freak out Rain-main style at the sound of a flushing toilet. It's not as all-or-nothing as 'sound' or 'no sound'.

However it sounded as if NL was telling people that AL couldn't handle having PEOPLE there. Maybe not for the noise, but for the disorganization factor, and the "strangers are here" factor. If the house was the place he felt he could predict, control, hide, whatever - then having people over was probably painful for him and awkward for NL.

 

[wfgodot]

I recall reading she first bought guns for protection when she became divorced and then she went with some of her friends to the shooting range one day and enjoyed it. She probably bought the .223 rifle for target shooting as well. Although it wouldnt be unheard of if she also like to hunt wild game either since she grew up on a farm.

IMO

Do you have a link for the info in the first sentence handy?

 

[Elley Mae]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/17/nancy-lanza-kept-guns-for-protection/

Her sister-in-law, Marsha Lanza, told the Chicago Sun-Times that Mrs. Lanza wanted guns for protection. “She prepared for the worst,” Marsha Lanza told the newspaper. “I didn’t know that they [the guns] would be used on her.”



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/...er-of-gunman-private-home-life_n_2313027.html

Lanza also began telling friends that she'd bought guns and had taken up target shooting, John Tambascio said.

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[Nana46]

HLN reporting LE are back at the shooter's home.

 

[time]

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/12/autism-is-not-psychosis/266434/

"There is, however, another disorder that can both be linked with planned violence and mistaken for autism, which may account for part of what went wrong, in this instance or others. That's psychosis, which can occur as part of schizophrenia or in some cases of severe depression or drug misuse. While it's important to understand the differences between autism and psychosis, it's also critical to know that stigmatizing, bullying, rejecting, and isolating people who are different exacerbates every mental illness and developmental disability ever studied.

...Perry says of the shooter: "My first thought was that he might have had a psychotic break -- and that his odd, disengaged behaviors earlier in life -- reasonably labeled as something like an ASD by some -- might actually have been prodromal psychotic disorder."

 

[Hickory Born]

To tell you the truth, I wish Marsha Lanza would stop talking to media.

 

[FragileSugar]

NY Giant Victor Cruz visits home of 6-year-old Sandy Hook shooting victim Jack Pinto

A day after 6-year-old Jack Pinto was buried in a Victor Cruz jersey, the New York Giant himself arrived in Newtown, Conn. to visit the slain boy’s family.

Cruz rolled up to the Pinto home Tuesday afternoon trailed by five police cars as an escort. The 26-year-old receiver met with Jack’s family as a group of kids — some in Giants jerseys — tossed around a football on the front lawn.
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As tears shed and rain poured, the young football fan was laid to rest during an emotional service in Newtown on Monday, wearing a replica jersey with the number 80.