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New Details On Newtown Shootings Released By State’s Attorney
Stephen J. Sedensky III, State’s Attorney for the Judicial District of Danbury, on Thursday (March 28) released a statement concerning the December 14, 2012, tragedy at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut that revealed new details of the tragedy.
On the morning of December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza, the shooter, age 20, of 36 Yogananda St., Newtown, shot his mother, Nancy Lanza, age 52, in her bed with a .22 caliber rifle. There was no indication of a struggle.
Later the shooter went to Sandy Hook Elementary school where he shot his way into the building and killed 20 children and 6 adults with a Bushmaster .223 caliber model XM15 rifle. The Bushmaster was loaded with a 30-round capacity magazine. Fourteen rounds were in the magazine when the Bushmaster was recovered by police. There was one round in the chamber.
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The shooter took his own life with a single shot from a Glock 10 mm handgun. He also had a loaded 9mm Sig Sauer P226 handgun on his person. Recovered from the person of the shooter, in addition to more ammunition for the handguns, were three, 30-round magazines for the Bushmaster, each containing 30 rounds. Located in the area of the shootings were six additional 30-round magazines containing 0, 0, 0, 10, 11, and 13 live rounds respectively. One-hundred-and-fifty-four spent .223 casings were recovered from the scene.
It is currently estimated that the time from when the shooter shot his way into the school until he took his own life was less than five minutes.
The police found a loaded 12-gauge shotgun in the passenger compartment of the car the shooter drove to the school. The shotgun was moved by police from the passenger compartment of the car to the trunk for safekeeping.
The guns used in the shootings were apparently all purchased by the shooter’s mother. There is currently no indication that the shooter attempted to purchase the guns and was denied. The gun locker at 36 Yogananda St. was open when the police arrived. It was unlocked and there was no indication that it had been broken into.
Under Connecticut General Statutes Section 51-276 the State’s Attorney for the Judicial District of Danbury is in charge of the investigation. I asked the Connecticut State Police to conduct the criminal investigation. We are being assisted by numerous other state and federal agencies.
Five search warrants were obtained on December 14, 15, and 16, 2012, for the car the shooter drove and his home at 36 Yogananda St. I sought and obtained sealing orders for these five warrants and the returns. The orders were issued by the Honorable John F. Blawie for 90 days. The orders expired March 27, 2013.
Those warrants and their returns are being released subject to redactions that were requested of the court by Sedensky. This is an ongoing and active criminal investigation which is most effectively done confidentially. Indeed the rules of Professional Responsibility as they apply to prosecutors require that I take steps to not make extra judicial statements that I know or reasonably should know will be disseminated by means of public communication and will have a substantial likelihood of materially prejudicing an adjudicative proceeding in the matter. The rule also applies to investigators working under my authority. As this criminal investigation is ongoing, active and no definitive conclusions have been reached by myself, the release of any information could potentially jeopardize a future prosecution if evidence were developed to support one. It is not unusual to develop a viable prosecution late in an investigation when one was not contemplated earlier.
While a shockingly large stock of weapons and ammunition was found in the home Lanza shared with his mother, the young adult’s literature collection also shows insight into his state of mind before the massacre. Investigators found books about autism and Asperger’s syndrome, a National Rifle Association guide to pistol shooting, a book entitled “Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Mind of an Autistic Savant”, and a book entitled “Train your brain to get happy” – all of which may reinforce the psychological problems with which the shooter may have self-diagnosed himself.
Investigators also found three photographs “of what appears to be a deceased human covered with plastic and what appears to be blood,” and a 2008 New York Times article about a massacre that took place at an Illinois university, the warrants state.
The documents also describe Lanza as “an avid gamer” who preferred first-person shooter game Call of Duty, an unnamed source close to the shooter told investigators.
At the same time, the investigators and myself are aware of the work some members of the public, the Governor and the General Assembly are trying to do. It is with that work in mind and our obligations to the investigation that the above statement regarding some facts of the case are described and only limited redactions to the search warrants and returns were requested. Additionally, recognizing the importance of the work of the Governor and the General Assembly, the Division of Criminal Justice through the Office of the State’s Attorney and the Office of the Chief State’s Attorney communicated with representatives of the Governor and the legislature to hear concerns regarding facts of the incident within the context of the ongoing criminal investigation.
Recently, information purporting to relate to this investigation was published in the media attributed to a presentation at a law enforcement conference. To prevent such disclosure in the future, I have instructed that any and all such presentations involving evidence in the criminal investigation be ceased while the investigation is pending and my report is still outstanding.
In not seeking to continue the complete sealing of all the search warrants and in providing the information above, this State’s Attorney, as well as the Connecticut State Police investigators, were mindful of the work our elected leaders are undertaking. After consultation with the investigators, it was decided that much of the information in the search warrants would not sought to be sealed and that the release of the above basic crime scene information would not jeopardize the active and continuing criminal investigation into this unprecedented tragedy.
The released search warrants were obtained on December 14, 15, 16, 2012, within a short time of the shootings. Subsequent investigation revealed that shootings took place in two of the classrooms, not three, and that the shooter was not wearing a bullet-proof vest, nor was he a teenager. Paragraph 5 of the December 16, 2012, warrant contains excess verbiage that was the result of incorporating information from prior search warrants. Finally, page numbers on returns do not necessarily follow the page listed before them as the returns are prepared after the warrant has been executed. The officer filling out the return may have used different equipment for the form which may result in discrepancies in the page numbering for the returns.
As mentioned, this is an active, ongoing investigation. No conclusions have been reached and no final determinations have been made. The estimation of completion in the summer remains. After the investigation is complete, Sedensky will prepare a report regarding the matter which will include an evaluation of the crimes committed and whether or not there will be any prosecutions as a result. Myself and the investigators ask that the investigative process be respected.
Our sympathy for this tragedy continues to go out to the victims’ families, friends and the Newtown community. We continue to be grateful to those working with us on the investigation, the Newtown Police Department, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, the United States Attorney’s Office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the United States Marshal’s Service, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and all of the other local, state and federal agencies that have been working with the Connecticut State Police and the State’s Attorney’s Office involved in this investigation.
Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy released the following statement regarding the release of information by the Office of the Chief State’s Attorney:
“I want to thank the Office of the Chief State’s Attorney for providing this information today. In some cases, the facts really do speak for themselves, and in this case they only add starker detail to what we already knew.
“We knew that a disturbed individual entered a school and fired 154 rounds in less than 5 minutes, killing 20 innocent children and 6 dedicated educators. We knew that he had ready access to weapons that he should not have had access to. We knew that these weapons were legally purchased under our current laws. We knew he used 30 round magazines to do it, and that they allowed him to do maximum damage in a very short period of time. And we now know that he left the lower capacity magazines at home.
“This is exactly why we need to ban high capacity magazines and why we need to tighten our assault weapons ban. I don’t know what more we can need to know before we take decisive action to prevent gun violence. The time to act is now.”
Where’s the video surveillance tape showing Adam shooting his way into the school???
The bullet count is off….should be 161 not 154…
Where’s the eye witness interviews of the only survivors that could have seen Adam as the shooter (Natalie Hammond and Rick Thorne)????
Where’s the data on the Honda (who owned it)?????
Where’s the autopsy findings indicating number of rounds and calibre?????
Oh…..where’s the video surveillance tapes??????
Why are they placing evidence taken from the perpetrator’s vehicle, back inside the perpetrator’s vehicle for “safekeeping.” Wouldn’t they want to place it in some kind of evidence bag and put it in police custody somewhere in a van or something?
cover-up!
Oh….”the time to act is now”
Act before the data is in?????
Act before the Truth is revealed??????
Act now to strip law abiding gun owners of their Constitution Rights?????
Major fail. What a total pile of steaming crap. I don’t believe a single word of these provable lies. These d.a. passages are a lie and a cover up, period. It’s really pathetic to try and continue the Sandy Hook blatant hoax. All I can see is robbie parker the confirmed actor smiling about his supposed daughter’s shot to death slaughter.
It’s offical Adam Lanza and 19 hijackers with box cutters shot up the NewTown School. Some of the students broke out their cell phones and fought back with a lets roll battle cry.
if all the dead of that day could speak ,, they would all say please president obama please take all the guns away
How about taking away all the cars from law abiding people because drunk drivers killed our loved ones…it happens every day, do something about that CRABBY. It is our right to bear ARMS….
Does anyone really believe this BS. Quite a marksman this kid. I bet our troops don’t have a 1 man kill % like this. Just like Tucson, Aurora all mind control. I would like to thank the Nazi’z from operation paperclip for providing the U.S. with the M.K. Ultra skills to pull off another fine mass murder all in an effort to keep us blind to them trying to take the 2nd amendment and piss on the constitution. You will never see the documents because the bullets grooves won’t match the guns they say were used. You can’t take over the country till you take the guns. Look for another false flag as it will surly come. The Government will keep killing our kids till they get what they want. Gun registration so they know exactly where to go no fuss no muss just dead kids trained by the crack MKultra team of murderers.
No rifle was used and the Ar-15 was recovered from the trunk of the car that belonged to Christopher Rodia. There is a news helicopter video of the Ar-15 being removed from the trunk. He did shoot his way into the school he was buzzed in.
What ever happened to the second shooter or the guy that was run down by police in the woods next to the school? This guy was wearing camo and told cops he was hunting. If you’re a hunter you know better than to hunt that close to a school much less town limits.
This story has been changed or alter so many times who can you believe.
Hegelian Dialectic
The Hegelian Dialectic is the tool that the corrupt in government use in an attempt to manipulate the minds of the people to accept their “change” when they normally would reject it.
The Hegelian Dialectic is the process in which the usurping elitists create a crisis, knowing in advance how the population will react to that created crisis, thus conditioning the people that a change is needed. Once that is achieved, they will then bring the “answer” to the crisis.
They attempt to control both sides of the debate over how and why the “change” is needed, thus diverting anyone from asking the right questions, in order to avoid bringing the right answer.
With the help of the state-run media, this process is repeated over and over again to make it seem as though society is accepting of their “change.”
Rather than citing the Bible, the Constitution, or the laws of our republic, they continue their manipulative debate until a perceived compromise is reached. The outcome of the “debate” – which purposely addressed the “concerns of the public” with the mandate to do something – is enacted as public policy (never law), and their radical agenda moves forward.
Learn your weapons; an AR-15 has a charging handle at the rear of the upper receiver that is used to operate the BCG in order to either rack a round or clear the weapon. In the video the weapon is being cleared by the use of a bolt handle on the side.
It’s funny how he managed to squeeze off over 150 rounds out of a gun left in the trunk of the car.
It doesn’t matter how many guns he had since guns weren’t the reason for the violence. Investigators have found from confiscating his computer that he spent the majority of time playing video games (combat simulators). What’s the one thing most of these shooters have in common? They all played combat video games. Millions of kids play with games that our military uses to train soldiers. Yet no one is making the correlation between the outbreak of this type of violence and these games. Guess it would impact the entertainment industry’s profits for them to do so which is why no one’s talking about the real reason for the violence.
Millions of video game players everywhere in the world, yet 99% of these shootings occur in the USA…. You must be right!
If you don’t want a gun then turn yours in but if you want mine you will have to rip it from my cold dead hand. Biggest bunch of BS ! there are country’s for people like this so plain and simple ! you do not like our constitution and our second amendment then get the hell out of America & move your ass to China scum bag
The problem is china trying to move in and take our land.