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Adam Lanza's Father Speaks: “You Can't Get Any More Evil”
Taylor Berman · 03/10/14 09:05AMIn a harrowing interview with the New Yorker, the first since his son, Adam, shot and killed 20 students and six teachers in December 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary, Peter Lanza described the horror, guilt, and regret he's felt since the tragedy. "Any variation on what I did and how my relationship was [with Adam] had to be good, because no outcome could be worse," Lanza said. "You can't get any more evil."
Adam Lanza Compared Face-Ripping Chimp to a “Teenage Mall Shooter”
Taylor Berman · 01/16/14 10:50AMAn X-Mas Card with a Check for a Gun and 1,000 Rounds of Ammo Among Objects Confiscated from Sandy Hook Shooter's Home
Max Read · 03/28/13 10:25AMAdam Lanza spent only five minutes at Sandy Hook Elementary School on the morning of December 14—from the moment he "shot his way into the school" to the minute he took his own life. But police found 154 spent casings from his Bushmaster rifle—and over a thousand rounds more at his home, authorities announced today.
The Unbearable Invisibility of White Masculinity: Innocence In the Age of White Male Mass Shootings
David J. Leonard · 01/12/13 02:15PMI have been profiled my entire life as innocent. When disruptive in class, I was told that I was eccentric, that I needed to work on my focus. Growing up, I looked for fights and conflicts yet I never fit the profile of a juvenile delinquent. The chip on my shoulder never signified a thug; I was just a kid with a bad temper who needed to mature and grow out of it.
School Suspends, Shames Student For Not Excoriating Adam Lanza in Private Poem
Jordan Sargent · 01/01/13 10:06PMHere is evidence of mental health protocols in America being fucked up, which is something we might want to collectively figure out if we're going to stop things like mass shootings. Courtni Webb is a student at Learning Life Academy in California, and last month a teacher found a poem in her notebook that empathized with Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza. In the poem, Webb wrote the following:
Police Raid Gun Store Where Nancy Lanza Purchased Rifle After Owner Was Unaware That a Man Stole an AR-15 With Plan For a Massacre
Jordan Sargent · 12/20/12 10:31PMOne way in which to keep guns out of the hands of people that shouldn't have them is to make sure that gun stores stop thieves, especially ones that brazenly walk into a store, take a gun off the rack and walk out. Or, at the very least — like, the absolute least there's ever been — gun stores should realize that a gun has been stolen in the first place. A gun store in East Windsor, Conn. failed miserably at both of these tasks earlier this week, and consequently was raided by the feds tonight. Oh, in a poetic coincidence, the store sold one of the guns used in the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting.
Investigators Say Information on Adam Lanza's Destroyed Hard Drive May Be 'Impossible' to Retrieve
Robert Kessler · 12/20/12 01:25PMBushmaster Firearms, Your Man Card Is Revoked
Hamilton Nolan · 12/17/12 03:00PMWriter of 'I Am Adam Lanza's Mother' Blog Post Criticized as Unfit Mother with Own History of Violent Tendencies, Mental Illness [UPDATE]
Neetzan Zimmerman · 12/17/12 09:04AMAdam Lanza Had Hundreds of Rounds of Ammo Left When He Killed Himself
Taylor Berman · 12/16/12 05:21PMImpossible as it might seem in the aftermath of Friday's horrific shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, the tragedy could've been worse. According to new reports, shooter Adam Lanza didn't shoot himself until after first responders arrived on the scene. Police found "hundreds of rounds" of ammo on Lanza's body, enough to have inflicted even more damage.
I Am Adam Lanza's Mother
Liza Long · 12/16/12 09:33AMChief Medical Examiner Releases Victims' Names: "I Believe Everybody was Hit More than Once"
MTanzer · 12/15/12 04:21PMH. Wayne Carver, the Chief Connecticut State Medical Examiner, just held a press conference to explain the findings of his examination. He determined that the cause of death for all of the victims was by gunshot wound, he classified all of the deaths as homicides. "I believe everybody was hit more than once," he told reporters.
What Was Adam Lanza Actually Like?
MTanzer · 12/15/12 12:33PMWhat We Know from Last Night and this Morning: Lanza Forced His Way into the School
MTanzer · 12/15/12 11:04AMOver the night, a bunch of news has trickled out of Connecticut. A press conference held by state police managed to establish a few new facts. The press conference was led by Lieutenant J. Paul Vance and the biggest nugget of new information he gave reporters was that the shooter, Adam Lanza, forced his way into the school.
Connection Between Nancy Lanza, Mother of Newtown Shooter, and Sandy Hook Elementary Still in Question
Jordan Sargent · 12/15/12 12:40AMThere are now conflicting reports as to whether Nancy Lanza — the mother of Newtown shooter Adam Lanza and the woman believed to be his first victim — taught at Sandy Hook Elementary, where Lanza killed 26 others, or if her relationship with the school was much more nebulous. It had been reported for much of Friday that Nancy taught at the school — and that Adam may have targeted children in her classroom — but that hypothesis got much murkier late Friday night.
First Two Victims Identified as Sandy Hook Principal, Psychologist Who Immediately Confronted Shooter
Jordan Sargent · 12/14/12 07:56PMThe first two victims in the Sandy Hook massacre have been identified: Principal Dawn Hochsprung and school psychologist Mary Sherlach. The Wall Street Journal spoke to Diane Day, a school therapist at Sandy Hook, who was in a room with Hochsprung and Sherlach when the shooting first occurred, and she provided some new details as to what happened when the shots broke out:
Actually, Now Is the Time to Talk Politics
Cord Jefferson · 12/14/12 07:05PMProbably the most widely viewed Twitter trending topic in the United States right now is "#prayfornewton." The ad hoc hashtag is indicative of both the public's desire to show support for the victims in today's Connecticut school shooting—most of whom were children— but also our ignorance of what exactly happened at Sandy Hook Elementary: the shooting was in Newtown, not "Newton."
Here's the First Photo of Newtown Shooter Adam Lanza, Plus More Details of His Relationship With His Mother
Jordan Sargent · 12/14/12 06:40PMThis is the first photo (undated, but not current) of Newtown shooter Adam Lanza, via ABC. We know that Lanza, the suspected Newtown shooter, had a mother, Nancy, who taught at Sandy Hook Elementary. Though it has not yet been confirmed by police, the AP is reporting that Nancy was the unnamed adult victim found dead later this afternoon. More details have now emerged regarding the relationship between Lanza and his mother.