This explains the rage to me. He was determined not to be locked away, and everyone would remember him. too too sad. Hated everyone and everything.
I need to do some Christmas things now.
Connecticut school district on lockdown after shooting report at a Newtown elemen #6
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...0e8eb0-4890-11e2-ad54-580638ede391_print.html
For Lanza family, son Adams difficulties dominated
By Michael S. Rosenwald, Tim Craig and Peter Slevin, Published: December 17
KINGSTON, N.H. Her nickname was Beanie.
She grew up here in her familys 1740s farmhouse not far from the towns center, an idyllic New England backdrop of general stores, ice cream shops, and the historic home of Josiah Bartlett, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
By all accounts, Nancy Jean Champion or Beanie, as her high school yearbook calls her had a charmed upbringing. Her mom was a school nurse. Her brother became a town police officer. And after she married her sweetheart in 1981, becoming Mrs. Peter J. Lanza, the couple built a house next door to her childhood home.
They were very nice people, said the owner of the local pizza shop here. They are from a lovely family.
In 1988, the couple welcomed a baby boy, Ryan. Four years later, another baby boy arrived: Adam. Nancy, who worked in the Boston financial district to put her husband through college, became a stay-at-home mother increasingly focused on the challenges of her youngest.
Last week, Adam shot his mother four times in her bed, authorities said, killing her. Next he gunned down 26 other people, most of them not much older than he was when he bounced around the grassy family homestead as a little boy.
While investigators dont know or haven't said why Adam Lanza went on a horrific killing spree at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., a clearer portrait of the family that raised him is emerging through interviews around the country with friends and family and in divorce documents sealing the end of the Lanzas marriage three years ago.
From the outside, the Lanza family portrait was one of wealth and privilege, of jobs landed at marquee corporations he at General Electric, she briefly at John Hancock. They moved to a hilltop home in Newtown, a village exurb of New York City.
But it was their difficult second son who came to dominate the familys time and collective psyche, especially Nancys. He had few friends, had trouble in schools and had difficulty reaching the steppingstones of normal teenage life. At age 20, he had only recently begun to drive.
As time passed, the family fractured and broke apart. Around the time of the divorce, Ryan Lanza graduated from college and moved to work in New York. Adam stayed with Nancy Lanza, and her life took on strange habits. She didnt let visitors into their home. She collected powerful weapons. And she began to bring her increasingly troubled son to multiple shooting ranges, officials from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said Monday, to practice using those guns together.
She wasnt afraid to be there for her kids, Marsha Lanza, who is married to Peter Lanzas brother Michael, said at her home in Crystal Lake, Ill. She was involved. Thats why, when I heard that he shot her, that floored me. That just didnt make sense to me, because your mom did all this stuff for you. What the hell were you thinking? Why did you take your revenge out on her? What did she do?
Nancy and Peter moved to Newtown in 1998. Peter commuted to New York City to work as a vice president for GE. Nancy had health problems multiple sclerosis for which she sought treatment in New York, according to her former sister-in-law.
In 2009, the couple filed for divorce, saying their 28-year marriage had broken down irretrievably, according to court records. What led to the breakup is unclear. Peter has remarried, to Shelley Rae Cudiner, a librarian at the University of Connecticut.
Nancy was a stay-at-home mom when they divorced, listing no income in court papers. Peter made $445,000 a year and agreed to pay $240,000 a year in alimony and child support, according to court records. That sum was set to rise in 2012 to $289,800.
Adam had Aspergers syndrome, the parents told Paula Levy, the family therapist who was their divorce mediator, Levy said in an interview with the Associated Press. The parents were unified in their commitment to meet all of Adams needs, Levy said, and gave few details about his condition.
The generous settlement, said John Aldrich, a family law attorney in Connecticut, could have been, they took into account that with a special-needs child, the mother was going to be more hands-on, require more money for her son. There is no magic percentage.
The couple agreed to joint custody of Adam and of their partial set of Boston Red Sox season tickets. Nancy got the house and the rights to final decisions about Adam.
They always stayed civil, Marsha Lanza said. They always stayed friends.
Caring for Adam took time and patience, and educating him presented challenges.
Newtown school officials couldnt be reached to comment on his schooling, but interviews in recent days with acquaintances and family members, as well as published reports, suggest that Adam bounced from public school, to a private Catholic school, to home schooling, to taking college courses at Western Connecticut State University, according to the Associated Press.
He was not close with his older brother, Ryan, who lives in Hoboken, N.J., and works for Ernst & Young.
I know they were totally different kids, Marsha said. Just totally different kids. Oil and water. I mean, they didnt obviously click. They tolerated each other because they were brothers.
Father and son have been in seclusion since the shooting, and through an attorney issued a statement that read, in part, Our family is grieving along with all those who have been affected by this enormous tragedy. . . . We are in a state of disbelief and trying to find whatever answers we can. We too are asking why.
The Champion family also issued a statement to express our heartfelt sorrow for the incomprehensible and profound loss of innocence.
At some point while he was in high school, Adam joined a technology club, a move Nancy apparently supported.
Gloria Milas, whose son Joshua was in the club, said the teens would sit around and link to each other by computer and play games called LAN parties, for local area network with each player on a computer. She said that contrary to published reports, the games were not violent. She likened them to Mario Bros. games.
They were always laughing, she said. When this all came out, I asked my son, I begged him, Were you playing games that were violent? He said no.
Adam did like to shoot guns real ones, with his mom. It is not clear when Nancy became a gun collector, but she had at least six firearms registered to her, including the semiautomatic assault rifle used in the massacre, and she sometimes showed off an antique rifle to visitors. The mother and sons shooting activities at multiple ranges went back several years, ATF officials said, but the last activity was more than six months ago.
If Adam Lanzas mental health had begun to worsen, Nancy Lanza had not shared it widely. The crowd at My Place, a local restaurant where she often hung out, always was happy to see her show up and have a microbrew at the bar. But those friends didnt really know her home life.
She did confide that she had recently discovered a school in Washington state that she thought would be good for Adam, said Mark Tambascio, the restaurants proprietor.
They were going to move out there together, Tambascio, who had known Nancy Lanza for several years, said Sunday night.
Her connections to her New Hampshire home town remained strong.
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial]Nancy had health problems multiple sclerosis
This is the first I have seen this .. She had a lot on her plate !!
ATF officials said, but the last activity was more than six months ago.
How do they know this? At least it shows she was not out there every weekend training a sniper ... I am getting tired of the allegations.
She did confide that she had recently discovered a school in Washington state that she thought would be good for Adam, said Mark Tambascio, the restaurants proprietor.
They were going to move out there together, Tambascio, who had known Nancy Lanza for several years, said Sunday night.
This is also news to me ..The change might of been just too much for Adam to deal with. [/FONT]
For Lanza family, son Adams difficulties dominated
By Michael S. Rosenwald, Tim Craig and Peter Slevin, Published: December 17
KINGSTON, N.H. Her nickname was Beanie.
She grew up here in her familys 1740s farmhouse not far from the towns center, an idyllic New England backdrop of general stores, ice cream shops, and the historic home of Josiah Bartlett, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
By all accounts, Nancy Jean Champion or Beanie, as her high school yearbook calls her had a charmed upbringing. Her mom was a school nurse. Her brother became a town police officer. And after she married her sweetheart in 1981, becoming Mrs. Peter J. Lanza, the couple built a house next door to her childhood home.
They were very nice people, said the owner of the local pizza shop here. They are from a lovely family.
In 1988, the couple welcomed a baby boy, Ryan. Four years later, another baby boy arrived: Adam. Nancy, who worked in the Boston financial district to put her husband through college, became a stay-at-home mother increasingly focused on the challenges of her youngest.
Last week, Adam shot his mother four times in her bed, authorities said, killing her. Next he gunned down 26 other people, most of them not much older than he was when he bounced around the grassy family homestead as a little boy.
While investigators dont know or haven't said why Adam Lanza went on a horrific killing spree at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., a clearer portrait of the family that raised him is emerging through interviews around the country with friends and family and in divorce documents sealing the end of the Lanzas marriage three years ago.
From the outside, the Lanza family portrait was one of wealth and privilege, of jobs landed at marquee corporations he at General Electric, she briefly at John Hancock. They moved to a hilltop home in Newtown, a village exurb of New York City.
But it was their difficult second son who came to dominate the familys time and collective psyche, especially Nancys. He had few friends, had trouble in schools and had difficulty reaching the steppingstones of normal teenage life. At age 20, he had only recently begun to drive.
As time passed, the family fractured and broke apart. Around the time of the divorce, Ryan Lanza graduated from college and moved to work in New York. Adam stayed with Nancy Lanza, and her life took on strange habits. She didnt let visitors into their home. She collected powerful weapons. And she began to bring her increasingly troubled son to multiple shooting ranges, officials from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said Monday, to practice using those guns together.
She wasnt afraid to be there for her kids, Marsha Lanza, who is married to Peter Lanzas brother Michael, said at her home in Crystal Lake, Ill. She was involved. Thats why, when I heard that he shot her, that floored me. That just didnt make sense to me, because your mom did all this stuff for you. What the hell were you thinking? Why did you take your revenge out on her? What did she do?
Nancy and Peter moved to Newtown in 1998. Peter commuted to New York City to work as a vice president for GE. Nancy had health problems multiple sclerosis for which she sought treatment in New York, according to her former sister-in-law.
In 2009, the couple filed for divorce, saying their 28-year marriage had broken down irretrievably, according to court records. What led to the breakup is unclear. Peter has remarried, to Shelley Rae Cudiner, a librarian at the University of Connecticut.
Nancy was a stay-at-home mom when they divorced, listing no income in court papers. Peter made $445,000 a year and agreed to pay $240,000 a year in alimony and child support, according to court records. That sum was set to rise in 2012 to $289,800.
Adam had Aspergers syndrome, the parents told Paula Levy, the family therapist who was their divorce mediator, Levy said in an interview with the Associated Press. The parents were unified in their commitment to meet all of Adams needs, Levy said, and gave few details about his condition.
The generous settlement, said John Aldrich, a family law attorney in Connecticut, could have been, they took into account that with a special-needs child, the mother was going to be more hands-on, require more money for her son. There is no magic percentage.
The couple agreed to joint custody of Adam and of their partial set of Boston Red Sox season tickets. Nancy got the house and the rights to final decisions about Adam.
They always stayed civil, Marsha Lanza said. They always stayed friends.
Caring for Adam took time and patience, and educating him presented challenges.
Newtown school officials couldnt be reached to comment on his schooling, but interviews in recent days with acquaintances and family members, as well as published reports, suggest that Adam bounced from public school, to a private Catholic school, to home schooling, to taking college courses at Western Connecticut State University, according to the Associated Press.
He was not close with his older brother, Ryan, who lives in Hoboken, N.J., and works for Ernst & Young.
I know they were totally different kids, Marsha said. Just totally different kids. Oil and water. I mean, they didnt obviously click. They tolerated each other because they were brothers.
Father and son have been in seclusion since the shooting, and through an attorney issued a statement that read, in part, Our family is grieving along with all those who have been affected by this enormous tragedy. . . . We are in a state of disbelief and trying to find whatever answers we can. We too are asking why.
The Champion family also issued a statement to express our heartfelt sorrow for the incomprehensible and profound loss of innocence.
At some point while he was in high school, Adam joined a technology club, a move Nancy apparently supported.
Gloria Milas, whose son Joshua was in the club, said the teens would sit around and link to each other by computer and play games called LAN parties, for local area network with each player on a computer. She said that contrary to published reports, the games were not violent. She likened them to Mario Bros. games.
They were always laughing, she said. When this all came out, I asked my son, I begged him, Were you playing games that were violent? He said no.
Adam did like to shoot guns real ones, with his mom. It is not clear when Nancy became a gun collector, but she had at least six firearms registered to her, including the semiautomatic assault rifle used in the massacre, and she sometimes showed off an antique rifle to visitors. The mother and sons shooting activities at multiple ranges went back several years, ATF officials said, but the last activity was more than six months ago.
If Adam Lanzas mental health had begun to worsen, Nancy Lanza had not shared it widely. The crowd at My Place, a local restaurant where she often hung out, always was happy to see her show up and have a microbrew at the bar. But those friends didnt really know her home life.
She did confide that she had recently discovered a school in Washington state that she thought would be good for Adam, said Mark Tambascio, the restaurants proprietor.
They were going to move out there together, Tambascio, who had known Nancy Lanza for several years, said Sunday night.
Her connections to her New Hampshire home town remained strong.
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial]Nancy had health problems multiple sclerosis
This is the first I have seen this .. She had a lot on her plate !!
ATF officials said, but the last activity was more than six months ago.
How do they know this? At least it shows she was not out there every weekend training a sniper ... I am getting tired of the allegations.
She did confide that she had recently discovered a school in Washington state that she thought would be good for Adam, said Mark Tambascio, the restaurants proprietor.
They were going to move out there together, Tambascio, who had known Nancy Lanza for several years, said Sunday night.
This is also news to me ..The change might of been just too much for Adam to deal with. [/FONT]
Nobody from the school came forward to say that she even volunteered there.
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“From what I've been told, Adam was aware of her petitioning the court for conservatorship and (her) plans to have him committed," Flashman told FoxNews.com. "Adam was apparently very upset about this."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/12/1...sed-connecticut-madman-to-snap/#ixzz2FRPVOkMi
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/12/1...sed-connecticut-madman-to-snap/#ixzz2FRPVOkMi
Other sources claims she was looking for a college for him. So which one was it? Locked away or going to college? I am not sure people who are interviewed and provide this insight know much of anything at all.
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If this is true I would bet this was why he killed mom (fear of being committed) but why go to the school and kill kids. Maybe he harbored jealousy because he was not like them..IDK
Whatever his reasons it is just so tragic and sad.
Yeah, hmmm. It does say...
But wouldn't others from the school have recognized her and come forward sooner?
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:waitasec: Maybe those that really knew her were dead?
But the parents of all the children are alive so they should know if she ever volunteered there.
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Well, if that is true there is a paper trail and the investigators should be aware of it.
Maybe she was a hoarder.
Maybe she didn't want anybody to see her son who looked emaciated (just going from that one black and white photo that we have seen).
Maybe she had mental health issues herself.
How come the older son never had friends over?
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"Nancy Lanza died of four gunshots to the head from a .22-caliber rifle, Dr. H. Wayne Carver, the chief state medical examiner, said Tuesday. Nancy Lanza was likely asleep she was killed.
The rifle was not among the weapons Adam Lanza took with him to the school on Friday.
http://www.courant.com/news/connect...hook-school-shooting-20121214,0,6861962.story
Yep that is what I thought. She probably did wear the key to a safe.
He killed her to get at the big guns. IMO
The rifle was not among the weapons Adam Lanza took with him to the school on Friday.
http://www.courant.com/news/connect...hook-school-shooting-20121214,0,6861962.story
Yep that is what I thought. She probably did wear the key to a safe.
He killed her to get at the big guns. IMO
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I agree--I think this is going to end up to be less about mental health and more about evil left unchecked.
And rifle is not a big gun? Seriously? Bushmaster .22 is what he used in school. Why is .22 rifle not a big gun, but Bushmaster .22 rifle is?
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OK here's where I am at now. I think he planned this for a long time and he's been fantasising about committing an act like this for years - I think these dark fantasies were fuelled and able to fester because he had isolated himself in his basement for so long with no friends, little human contact, and only outlet was violent video games and guns. The fact that he had made little contact with people in his life meant that people meant very little to him anyway.
He also had a mental disturbance .. paranoid? schizophrenia? schizoid? schizotypal? Something more than aspergers that's for sure. This just fuelled the fire, I don't believe the mental issues were the cause, I believe the cause was him deciding to do it (possibly years ago) and planning and training for it. But it was part of the perfect storm.
I believe he chose children because he would be able to kill more people if they were too young to fight back and because it would upset society the most. He wanted to have maximum impact. He destroyed his hard drive for privacy reasons.
For all the discussion in the media about not mentioning his name etc, they are slipping into making the story all about AL which is no doubt inspiring some other kid just like him out there to top his high score on the video game 'mass shooter USA'.
He also had a mental disturbance .. paranoid? schizophrenia? schizoid? schizotypal? Something more than aspergers that's for sure. This just fuelled the fire, I don't believe the mental issues were the cause, I believe the cause was him deciding to do it (possibly years ago) and planning and training for it. But it was part of the perfect storm.
I believe he chose children because he would be able to kill more people if they were too young to fight back and because it would upset society the most. He wanted to have maximum impact. He destroyed his hard drive for privacy reasons.
For all the discussion in the media about not mentioning his name etc, they are slipping into making the story all about AL which is no doubt inspiring some other kid just like him out there to top his high score on the video game 'mass shooter USA'.
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Day-um!!..SANDY HOOK.. right there..odd coincidence?..maybe..maybe not..
Maybe this article was previously posted?
Expert: Adam Lanza's smashed computers could still yield data
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162...zas-smashed-computers-could-still-yield-data/
Expert: Adam Lanza's smashed computers could still yield data
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162...zas-smashed-computers-could-still-yield-data/
Hahahah I can't cook
MO it's just odd that a 20yr male would play a game with "cooking AND engineering" as profession you aquire, and in real life he was reported to be interested in cooking and going to engineering school.
Life imating art? So to speak?
Just a thought that these are two things among millions of combinations he could be interested in I just saw a link between a game he played and reported real life interests.
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