Multiple deaths, including children, at Connecticut school shooting

[dog eat dog world]

Another chilling tale. Teen shoots woman's baby on the street.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/de-marquis-elkins-17-and-unidentified-teen-charged-in-brunswick-ga-baby-s-shooting-death-1.4867592

this makes me rethink my anti death penalty stance. The father and mother of the killers should be executed for raising monsters.

This is inconceivably sad, to watch you baby murdered before your eyes.

When a biscuit does that in clear sight, there should be no trial. Grab him and hang him right there.

 

[dog eat dog world]

On a brighter note, the father of Emilie Parker has been invited to throw out the season's first pitch in Arlington.....

http://rangersblog.dallasnews.com/2013/03/robbie-parker-father-of-sandy-hook-elementary-victim-to-throw-out-first-pitch-at-texas-rangers-opener.html/
I think I read on another account that Emilie went out and ate dinner with her dad to take his mind off the Josh Hamilton signing by the Angels and told her dad "We're still gonna be good." The day before she died.

 

[dog eat dog world]

yep...she did.
http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/03/22/4723245/father-of-sandy-hook-victim-will.html

 

[Riptide]

Another chilling tale. Teen shoots woman's baby on the street.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/de-marquis-elkins-17-and-unidentified-teen-charged-in-brunswick-ga-baby-s-shooting-death-1.4867592

this makes me rethink my anti death penalty stance. The father and mother of the killers should be executed for raising monsters.

This is inconceivably sad, to watch you baby murdered before your eyes.

When a biscuit does that in clear sight, there should be no trial. Grab him and hang him right there.

Nah, shoot him full of holes with an assault rifle. Give those guns some good pub.

 

[KJIM]

Another chilling tale. Teen shoots woman's baby on the street.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/de-marquis-elkins-17-and-unidentified-teen-charged-in-brunswick-ga-baby-s-shooting-death-1.4867592

this makes me rethink my anti death penalty stance. The father and mother of the killers should be executed for raising monsters.

This is inconceivably sad, to watch you baby murdered before your eyes.

When a biscuit does that in clear sight, there should be no trial. Grab him and hang him right there.

Except there were no witnesses besides the mother.

 

[deskslave]

I know my first instinct when I heard about this was to think that the mother was somehow responsible, as so often turns out to be the case. Now I wonder if I wasn't hoping that -- and if I'm not still hoping that -- because I don't want to have to accept that there's people in the world depraved enough to randomly shoot a baby.

Not that there wouldn't be tremendous depravity at play in the alternate scenario. But that at least has precedent. That at least could have some sort of explanation, however terrible it might be.

 

[LongTimeListener]

NRA robocalling in Newtown about gun control proposals. Classy bunch.

http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20130325/US-School-Shooting-NRA-Robocalls/

 

[dog eat dog world]

So you know for a fact that every single victim's families back liberal policy on guns?

 

[YankeeFan]

More details emerge:

As the police combed through his home after the shooting, they discovered Ms. Lanza lying dead in a bed in a second-floor bedroom with a gunshot wound to her forehead and a rifle nearby.

They also found hundreds of rounds of ammunition and a host of weapons in a brown safe and in bedroom closets. The police also discovered numerous books related to autism, including one titled "Born on a Blue Day – Inside the Mind of an Autistic Savant." Another book was called "Train Your Brain to Get Happy."

Neighbors and classmates of Mr. Lanza have said he had an autism variant known as Asperger syndrome, though investigators have never confirmed that he had such a diagnosis. Even so, his association with the disorder have raised alarms among parents of children with the diagnosis, fearing it may be associated with violence.

Experts say individuals with autism spectrum disorders are often bullied in school and the workplace, and frequently suffer from depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts. But the experts also say there is no evidence that they are more likely than any other group to commit violent crimes

The police also found a certificate from the National Rifle Association bearing the name Adam Lanza, and an N.R.A. guide to the basics of pistol shooting.

Among other items police officers found were seven journals written by Mr. Lanza, along with several of his drawings. The contents of the journals or the nature of the drawings was not disclosed. They also found three photographs of what appeared to be a dead person covered with plastic and what appears to be blood, and a New York Times article dated Feb. 18, 2008, about a school shooting at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Ill. In that shooting, Steven Kazmierczak killed 5 people and injured 21 on Valentine's Day before he killed himself.

The day of the Newtown shooting, agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation interviewed a person who said Mr. Lanza rarely left his home. The person, whose name is redacted, considered Mr. Lanza to be a "shut-in and an avid gamer who plays Call of Duty, amongst other games," a law enforcement affidavit accompanying the warrants stated.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/29/nyregion/search-warrants-reveal-items-seized-at-adam-lanzas-home.html?pagewanted=all

 

[93Devil]

Why do you edit the stories you link?

 

[YankeeFan]

I don't think you know the definition of the word edit.

 

[93Devil]

I don't think you know the definition of the word edit.

An extensive assortment of ammunition and weapons, including rifles, knives and samurai swords; damaged computer equipment; journals, a newspaper clip of a school shooting at Northern Illinois University and a report card from the time Adam Lanza attended Sandy Hook Elementary School.
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Those were among a chilling inventory of items the police found in the home where Mr. Lanza plotted one of the deadliest school shootings in the nation's history, according to search warrants of the home unsealed on Thursday for the first time since the Newtown massacre in December.

Mr. Lanza, 20, killed his mother, Nancy Lanza, on Dec. 14 in the spacious yellow home they shared in Newtown. He then drove to Sandy Hook Elementary School, which he attended as a child, and killed 20 first graders and 6 educators before killing himself as police officers arrived.

The search warrants, which a judge agreed to partially redact at the request of prosecutors, shed a glimmer of light on Mr. Lanza's inner world that, more than three months after the tragedy, has largely remained a mystery.

Since the shootings, vague portraits of the gunman and his mother have emerged, showing a young loner who spent hours in a darkened basement room playing violent video games, and a woman who had collected numerous weapons, including powerful handguns and a semiautomatic rifle that she and her son enjoyed shooting.

The police say Mr. Lanza used a Bushmaster XM15-E2S semiautomatic rifle with several 30-round magazines in the attack at the school and also carried two semiautomatic handguns, one of which he used to kill himself. The police also found a 12-gauge shotgun in the car he drove to the school. Officials have said he fired more than 150 rounds in the school.

The police also discovered numerous books related to autism, including one titled "Born on a Blue Day – Inside the Mind of an Autistic Savant." Another book was called "Train Your Brain to Get Happy."

Neighbors and classmates of Mr. Lanza have said he had an autism variant known as Asperger syndrome, though investigators have never confirmed that he had such a diagnosis. Even so, his association with the disorder has raised alarms among parents of children with the diagnosis, who have expressed concerns that the public might believe that those with autism are more prone to violence.

Experts say individuals with autism spectrum disorders are often bullied in school and the workplace, and frequently suffer from depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts. But the experts also say there is no evidence that they are more likely than any other group to commit violent crimes.

As the police combed through the Lanzas' home after the shooting, they discovered Ms. Lanza lying dead in a bed in a second-floor bedroom with a gunshot wound to her forehead and a rifle nearby.

They also found hundreds of rounds of ammunition and a host of weapons in a brown safe and in bedroom closets. The warrants list at least four weapons, including the one found in the car Mr. Lanza drove to Sandy Hook.



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