Adam Lanza visited gun range with mom
18 Dec 2012 5:39 AM IST
Adam Lanza, the 20-year-old who slayed 26 people, including 20 children, and his mother both spent time at a gun range in Connecticut, US media reports said on Monday.
Investigators have determined Lanza did visit a gun range, but they have not determined whether he shot there, officials probing the second-deadliest school shooting in US history said.
Investigators have also learned his mother, Nancy Lanza, visited a gun range on multiple occasions, but they have not determined whether her son was with her during those visits, a spokesperson of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was quoted by the ABC News as saying. ATF agents have been canvassing area gun ranges and gun dealers to learn whether Adam Lanza had been a customer or a visitor. As with many murder-suicides, the gunman in the Newtown, Connecticut, shooting took to his grave the reasons that compelled him to kill more than two dozen people before taking his own life. In 2007, a gunman had killed 32 people in a massacre in Virginia Tech, the deadliest shooting incident in the country.
Those who knew the shooter struggled to reconcile the difference between the quiet, withdrawn youngster without a criminal record and the man who donned black fatigues and a military vest and rained hell at Sandy Hook Elementary School last week. Police identified Adam Lanza as the shooter and that he killed his 52-year-old mother, Nancy, in their home before walking into the school and spraying bullets, killing 26 more people - 20 of them children no older than 7.
The rampage ended when Lanza apparently took his own life in a classroom. He was carrying three firearms, a semiautomatic .223-caliber rifle made by Bushmaster and two handguns, a Glock and a Sig Sauer. Connecticut law requires gun owners to be at least 21. The guns, authorities said, belonged to his mother. Police are yet to disclose a motive for the attack - which left those who knew Lanza trying to discern whether anything in his past could have foreshadowed the present, CNN reported.
OBAMA VOWS TO KEEP KIDS SAFE
Consoling the grieving families of the victims of the deadly Connecticut school shooting, US President Barack Obama on Monday said the nation has failed to keep its children safe and vowed to use all his power to prevent such ‘tragedies’. ‘Can we truly say, as a nation, that we are meeting our obligations? Can we honestly say that we are doing enough to keep our children all of them safe from harm?,’ asked Obama, who attended an emotional inter-faith memorial service held at the Newtown High School in Connecticut.
‘If we are honest with ourselves, the answer is no,’ he said. ‘We are not doing enough, and we will have to change.’ Obama travelled to Newtown, where a young man gunned down 26 people, including 20 first-graders at the Sandy Hook Elementary School before committing suicide last week.
The police said accused Adam Lanza, 20, used a long rifle and shot the 6-7 year olds multiple times in the carnage that shocked the world and left the America searching for answers.
Investigators have determined Lanza did visit a gun range, but they have not determined whether he shot there, officials probing the second-deadliest school shooting in US history said.
Investigators have also learned his mother, Nancy Lanza, visited a gun range on multiple occasions, but they have not determined whether her son was with her during those visits, a spokesperson of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was quoted by the ABC News as saying. ATF agents have been canvassing area gun ranges and gun dealers to learn whether Adam Lanza had been a customer or a visitor. As with many murder-suicides, the gunman in the Newtown, Connecticut, shooting took to his grave the reasons that compelled him to kill more than two dozen people before taking his own life. In 2007, a gunman had killed 32 people in a massacre in Virginia Tech, the deadliest shooting incident in the country.
Those who knew the shooter struggled to reconcile the difference between the quiet, withdrawn youngster without a criminal record and the man who donned black fatigues and a military vest and rained hell at Sandy Hook Elementary School last week. Police identified Adam Lanza as the shooter and that he killed his 52-year-old mother, Nancy, in their home before walking into the school and spraying bullets, killing 26 more people - 20 of them children no older than 7.
The rampage ended when Lanza apparently took his own life in a classroom. He was carrying three firearms, a semiautomatic .223-caliber rifle made by Bushmaster and two handguns, a Glock and a Sig Sauer. Connecticut law requires gun owners to be at least 21. The guns, authorities said, belonged to his mother. Police are yet to disclose a motive for the attack - which left those who knew Lanza trying to discern whether anything in his past could have foreshadowed the present, CNN reported.
OBAMA VOWS TO KEEP KIDS SAFE
Consoling the grieving families of the victims of the deadly Connecticut school shooting, US President Barack Obama on Monday said the nation has failed to keep its children safe and vowed to use all his power to prevent such ‘tragedies’. ‘Can we truly say, as a nation, that we are meeting our obligations? Can we honestly say that we are doing enough to keep our children all of them safe from harm?,’ asked Obama, who attended an emotional inter-faith memorial service held at the Newtown High School in Connecticut.
‘If we are honest with ourselves, the answer is no,’ he said. ‘We are not doing enough, and we will have to change.’ Obama travelled to Newtown, where a young man gunned down 26 people, including 20 first-graders at the Sandy Hook Elementary School before committing suicide last week.
The police said accused Adam Lanza, 20, used a long rifle and shot the 6-7 year olds multiple times in the carnage that shocked the world and left the America searching for answers.
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