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

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lol ... (re: "fuzzyfaced" people) ... i think they "fuzzed" 'em faces on purpose .. to conceal those people's indentities ...

but pretty sure you knew that already :)

p.s.

♦◊♦ ------ Do you like that thingy? (re: ♦◊♦) ...

Me too! :D
 
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Once I asked that same question ... / I mean, linked an article from some blog about "something like that" ...

... but, if I am not mistaken now, was asked not to speculate about it ...

More and more info is coming out about this issue, so we shall see.

I know nothing about Newtown, but Minnesota has basically just about eliminated the statute of limitations on reporting and the Vatican is cleaning house,
 
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Mass Murders Captivated Online User Believed To Be Adam Lanza

June 30, 2013, 7:17 pm ET by Alaine Griffin and Josh Kovner, The Hartford Courant

In posts on gun message boards and gaming chat rooms, a user who authorities believe was Newtown gunman Adam Lanza showed a technical prowess about weapons and computers, a “fetish” for a certain bullet and a near-fixation with correcting Wikipedia articles about mass killers.

He would have been 17 years old at the time of the posts, which are being examined by investigative agencies. The posts linked to Lanza reflect his interests and thoughts, publicly revealed for the first time in the killer’s own words.

Although Lanza did not use his name, investigators linked the poster’s user name to Lanza, according to sources familiar with the probe of the Dec. 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The same user name appears in the Wikipedia edits, discovered by The Courant. A Wikipedia spokesman said the website could not identify the poster, citing privacy policies. Investigators are now looking into whether the same person did the Wikipedia editing.

The Courant, which is not revealing the user name, reviewed several dozen posts written from April 2009 to February 2010.

Read the full story here.

Source: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/front...ivated-online-user-believed-to-be-adam-lanza/
 
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Adam Lanza Edited Wikipedia Mass Killer Pages, Wrote Of Bullet 'Fetish', According To Authorities - Courant.com

Mass Murders Captivated Online User Believed To Be Adam Lanza

By ALAINE GRIFFIN, [email protected] and JOSH KOVNER, [email protected]
The Hartford Courant
4:35 p.m. EDT, June 30, 2013

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Adam Lanza's Sixth Grade Class Photo / Adam Lanza's 6th grade class photo.

The poster who authorities suspect is Lanza questions Connecticut's assault-gun ban, offers a blueprint for his laptop computer and provides YouTube links to a commercial for a laughing doll from the 1970s and for The Rock-afire Explosion, an animatronics band that played in ShowBiz Pizza locations in the 1980s.

In one thread on the website thehighroad.org in October 2009 at 1 a.m., the poster believed to be Lanza asks whether a ban on a certain semiautomatic pistol might extend to other weapons.

Another poster suggests that he ask the Connecticut State Police.

"I always prefer asking through proxy when I can avoid speaking to someone directly. I was just wondering if anyone knew because I have a fetish for .32 ACP," the poster suspected to be Lanza responds, referring to ammunition.

The posts reveal an intense and well-developed interest in high-capacity weaponry and an almost obsessive attention to details both in the user's own writing and his editing of articles about mass murder.

Shunning normal abbreviations and quips in chat-room speak, the poster writes in unemotional academic tones about his step-by-step "build" of his laptop computer and asks detailed questions about the modification of certain firearms.

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The poster also was not shy about starting a debate online, asking in chat rooms on glocktalk.com in April 2009 whether adding RAM to a computer increases its speed.

"Am I just an inattentive philistine or has additional RAM in a computer which was not already deprived of it never helped any of you?" the poster asks.

The poster appears to be part of a video gaming "clan," communicating with the others through myshoutbox.com in February 2010. At one point, some fellow gamers appear to be lamenting the departure of the poster, and of others, from the clan.

"I know," said one person in March 2010, referring to the poster believed to be Lanza and two others. They "set the clan apart from all other clans."

Another poster said, "Same. It's just not the same without them."

The posts suspected to be Lanza's stop abruptly in late February 2010.

Read more: http://www.courant.com/news/connect...za-online-posts-20130630,0,3834109,full.story
 
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Sandy Hook Foundation meets with families

Dirk Perrefort

Published 9:12 pm, Sunday, June 30, 2013

NEWTOWN -- Families of those slain at Sandy Hook Elementary School met privately with officials of the Newtown-Sandy Hook Community Foundation recently to discuss the distribution of donations in the organization's coffers.

Officials with the foundation confirmed that the meeting was held on Wednesday, but declined to discuss the nature of the meeting or how many families attended.

The meeting, however, was one that was suggested by state Attorney General George Jepsen.

The attorney general, who became involved at the suggestion of family members, urged the foundation to meet with the families to explain decisions reached about the distribution of more than $11.4 million in donations.

Foundation officials had announced this spring that $7.7 million of that amount would be distributed among the 40 most affected families, which includes relatives of the 26 killed at the school, the 12 students who witnessed and survived the shooting, as well as two educators who were injured during the ordeal.

Foundation officials have said previously that the remainder of the money, in complying with donor intent, would be retained for long term community needs.

Michelle Cruz, the former state's victim advocate, said the length of time it has taken to distribute the money is only further victimizing the families of those killed Dec. 14 at the elementary school by gunman Adam Lanza.

"The fact that these families have to go to meeting after meeting to fight for this money is ludicrous," she said Friday.

Cruz added that the situation is similar to one in Ohio, where the families of three shooting victims have filed a lawsuit against the local United Way, which has yet to distribute donations more than a year after the incident.
Read more: http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Sandy-Hook-Foundation-meets-with-families-4639536.php
 
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I wish I knew what if anything caused a bullet fetish. Did Adam maybe have a fetish to weapons per se? Talking out load.
 
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Newtown Dispatchers Honored For Heroism During Sandy Hook Elementary School Schooting

By MICHAEL MELIA 07/02/13 03:10 PM ET EDT

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HARTFORD, Conn. — From the first call from inside Sandy Hook Elementary School, the severity of the attack was immediately clear to dispatcher Robert Nute.

The person on the other end of the line was a woman Nute has known for 30 years, but it hardly sounded like her.

"There was no question in my mind," Nute said. "The woman I was speaking with, I could tell the difference in her voice."

As shots rang out from the gunman's semi-automatic rifle, the dispatchers sent police racing to the school and worked to keep panicked callers on the line. Within a few minutes, the rampage was over, with 20 children and six women killed before the gunman committed suicide as police arrived at the schoolhouse.

The staff at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center has won praise from officials and colleagues around the country for their work that day...

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/02/newtown-dispatchers-honored_n_3535784.html
 
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Mass Murders Captivated Online User Believed To Be Adam Lanza

June 30, 2013, 7:17 pm ET by Alaine Griffin and Josh Kovner, The Hartford Courant

In posts on gun message boards and gaming chat rooms, a user who authorities believe was Newtown gunman Adam Lanza showed a technical prowess about weapons and computers, a “fetish” for a certain bullet and a near-fixation with correcting Wikipedia articles about mass killers.

He would have been 17 years old at the time of the posts, which are being examined by investigative agencies. The posts linked to Lanza reflect his interests and thoughts, publicly revealed for the first time in the killer’s own words.

Although Lanza did not use his name, investigators linked the poster’s user name to Lanza, according to sources familiar with the probe of the Dec. 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The same user name appears in the Wikipedia edits, discovered by The Courant. A Wikipedia spokesman said the website could not identify the poster, citing privacy policies. Investigators are now looking into whether the same person did the Wikipedia editing.

The Courant, which is not revealing the user name, reviewed several dozen posts written from April 2009 to February 2010.

Read the full story here.

Source: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/front...ivated-online-user-believed-to-be-adam-lanza/


Interesting to say the least. Thanks
 
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Adam Lanza Frequented Gun Message Boards, Obsessively Edited Wikipedia Posts About Mass Shootings
By Joe Coscarelli
New York Magazine


7/1/13 at 3:11 PM

"Sandy Hook gunman Adam Lanza, who shot and killed twenty elementary-school children, six adult staffers, his mother, and himself in December, spent his teenage years online talking about guns. A report by the Hartford Courant reveals for the first time the details of Lanza's Internet life, including postings from 2009 and 2010, when Lanza was 17, on firearm message boards and Wikipedia entries about mass shootings. They are haunting.

Although the Courant declines to reveal the user name authorities believe belonged to Lanza, a simple Google search of the quoted sections indicates that he went by the handle "Kaynbred" on sites like TheHighRoad.org and GlockTalk.com."

More...

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/07/adam-lanza-kaynbred-guns-wikipedia.html
 
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I just wish we could keep Ryan out of this. There are still pics of him on youtube that claim he is the killer. And one of those videos seems to have one of his friends in it.
 
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