A law enforcement source with detailed knowledge of the investigation identified that person as Lanza’s mother, Nancy.ĭespite earlier reports that said she was a teacher, Nancy Lanza was not a teacher at the school where the killings took place, said Janet Vollmer, a kindergarten teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary School. In addition to the killings at Sandy Hook, another adult was found dead at a second location in Newtown, Vance said.
Paul Vance of the Connecticut State Police said that the medical examiner will determine the cause of death for the gunman, though he noted that police never discharged their weapons. The official said Lanza died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. A fourth weapon, a shotgun, was recovered from a car in the school parking lot, police said. The weapons were legally purchased by Lanza’s mother, the official said. 223 Bushmaster rifle, a Glock and a Sig Sauer, a law enforcement official familiar with the investigation said. Three weapons were recovered from the school: a semi-automatic. “He was really quiet, he kept to himself.” “You could definitely tell he was a genius,” Israel told CNN, adding she hadn’t talked with him since middle school. Lanza had no known criminal record, a law enforcement official said.Īlex Israel, a former classmate of Lanza’s, described him as “quiet” and “reserved.” Police declined to speculate on a motive Friday evening, citing the ongoing investigation. “Why? Why?” one woman wailed as she walked up a wooded roadway leading from the school. ‘I hope my mom is ok’: Tweets from the shootingĪs reports of the shooting surfaced, frantic parents descended on a nearby firehouse where the children had been taken. Responding police officers helped evacuate the children, telling them to hold hands and keep their eyes closed to the carnage as they exited the building. The shooter “must have shot a hundred rounds.” “I cowered,” she told CNN’s Meredith Artley. The parent ducked under the table and called 911. All three left the room and went into the hall to see what was happening. In the room with her were Hochsprung, the vice principal and Sherlach.
One parent who was in the school at the time of the shooting said she heard a “pop, pop, pop,” sound around 9:30 a.m. “And I just heard the police officers yelling.” Third-grader Alexis Wasik said police and teachers barged into her classroom and told students to hide in the corner.
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Janet Vollmer, a kindergarten teacher, locked her classroom doors, covered the windows and read a story to her 19 students to keep them calm. Young students described being ushered into bathrooms and closets by teachers as the first shots rang out. “Evil visited this community today,” Connecticut Gov. history, behind only the 2007 shooting at Virginia Tech that left 32 people dead. With the death toll at 26, the Newtown shooting is the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S.
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