The more we read the more it sounds like the 'move' to 'wherever' but in some ways out of the basement and into the real world was what triggered this incident. I have a 'pet' theory that AL planned this for a long time and when the Dark Knight shooting happened he followed that closely and noticed the map (below) which was posted in one of the early threads.
Noticing Sandy Hook in bottom left he saw this as a 'sign' that he was supposed to complete his 'mission' at the school he had attended as a boy and for which he harboured some old resentment, who knows how deep his anger and paranoia ran .. we will likely never know the depths of his mental illness / depression or whatever it was, if he was psychotic or not, or if he suffered from delusions. The secret of 'who is AL' is one he seems determined to keep. I was interested to read about his OCD in
this article ..
I'd noticed the repeat T-shirt wearing in these pictures but thought they were just taken on the same day, now looking at the hair I don't think so...
It's interesting, but I also think that the people with real information are talking to LE and will not speak to media, so all we will hear until there is a report will be town gossip and 'information' from people who have not known them well in recent years.