CT shooter

skavier480 said:

hmm whats wrong ? did i miss something while stalking entire LPF?

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InfinitusEquitas said:

Children and adults gunned down in Connecticut school massacre

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sinner said:

What a tragic event for the whole america, i hope he's burning forever for this sh*t..

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"He was always carrying around his laptop holding onto it real tight,'' Lapple said. "He walked down the halls against the wall almost like he was afraid of people. He was definitely kind of strange but you'd never think he'd do something like this."

Rebecca Jaroszewski said she was in the same first- and third-grade classes with Lanza at Sandy Hook Elementary. She said the memory that stands out most is Lanza standing alone while other children played at recess, straining himself to make his face turn red and making animal-like noises.

He did this often, Jaroszewski said. "He would seem really angry, but he wouldn't tell people why," she said.

When she heard the news about the shootings, "It clicked for me when I realized who it was," Jaroszewski said.

Another former classmate of Lanza's remembered him as quiet and shy and socially awkward.

Kateleen Foy, now an undergraduate at Hofstra University in New York, said she was in Lanza's seventh-grade class at St. Rose of Lima School in Newtown.

She recalled that he joined the class after the school year began and left before school got out for the summer.

"He was really shy, really painfully shy," Foy said. "He was a little hard to talk to."

Foy said she didn't recall seeing Lanza again after he left St. Rose until she spotted him in a hall while they were students at Newtown High School.

"I want people to know he wasn't always a monster," Foy said. "He became one, but he wasn't always that way."

Foy said she and other students accepted his shyness because, she said, he had been home-schooled and "hadn't really been socialized."

In high school, "There were never any concrete signs of anything like [violence]. He went with the flow. … He flew under the radar,'' Foy said.

Another high school classmate, Ryan Schmidt, said Lanza "kept to himself. … He was just a bit off. He seemed like he was always awkward and looking around expecting something or someone to be coming at him. Twitchy, almost."

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Seoul_lasers said:

Well, I can't excuse the outcome of this event. Nothing can. What was done was horrific. This case even has a connection to Canada as one of the students killed went to school in Winnipeg while her father worked as a prof at University of Manitoba, Jimmy Greene whom is well known in the world of Jazz lost his 6 yr old daughter in the shooting.
This 20 year old shooter, Adam Lanza had shown some severe psychological problems long before this incident occurred.
There is some indication that he suffered from Aspergers Syndrome and was socially withdrawn. However I've taught students with this condition and none of them were prone to violence at all. So, more than likely there was something else.
Here's a quote from courant.com



What troubles me about the story is that there was obviously some warning signs that were ignored. Sure we can go on and say "I hope he burns forever @$#$" but, you see that's part of the problem. It's our lack of understanding of others that allows for kids like these to fly under the radar. We ignore them and we ignore their problems. Instead of dealing with their anger and or organic (mental) problems, we treat it with indifference. We allow the wounds to fester, until finally they snap.
Not everyone with these problems will snap like this and this case is obviously extreme in the worst way.
The second part of the story is how Adam was able to access the weapons he did.
However, I am not against firearms ownership at all, even after a severe case like this.
Had Adam had access to chemicals, I am sure we would have heard about a school bombing.
We can't blame objects for outcomes like these. We have to look at our society and at ourselves and how we deal with mental illness in our communities.
May this be a wakeup call.

My sincere condolences to all those in the community of Newtown, Conn.
Canada and Korea is with you all the way.

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Super Critical said:

That article you quoted shows no clear warning signs. There are weird shy kids at every school. Okay weird shy people may have a 1/500,000 chance of going postal as opposed to the 1/2,000,000 chance normal people have. His mom would have been the only one to see serious warning signs if there were any.

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The gunman who slaughtered 20 children and six adults at a Connecticut elementary school may have snapped because his mother was planning to commit him to a psychiatric facility, according to a lifelong resident of the area who was familiar with the killer’s family and several of the victims’ families.
Adam Lanza, 20, targeted Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown after killing his mother early Friday because he believed she loved the school “more than she loved him,” said Joshua Flashman, 25, who grew up not far from where the shooting took place. Flashman, a U.S. Marine, is the son of a pastor at an area church where many of the victims' families worship.
“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. He thought she just wanted to send him away. From what I understand, he was really, really angry. I think this could have been it, what set him off.”
A senior law enforcement official involved in the investigation confirmed that Lanza's anger at his mother over plans for “his future mental health treatment” is being looked at as a possible motive for the deadly shooting.

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