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Children are led away from Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2012, the day Adam Lanza committed a mass shooting that killed 26 at the school.
The monster who staged the massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary School was obsessed with mass murders.
Adam Lanza was especially fixated on the April 1999 mass shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo.
But Stephen Sedensky, the state’s attorney probing the slaughter in Newtown, Conn., wrote Monday they may never know for sure why Lanza went on a deadly tear.
“The obvious question that remains is: ‘Why did the shooter murder twenty-seven people, including twenty children?” he wrote in a new summary of the tragedy. “Unfortunately, that question may never be answered conclusively, despite the collection of extensive background information on the shooter through a multitude of interviews and other sources.”
This much is clear, Sedensky wrote: Lanza acted alone.
“The evidence clearly shows that the shooter planned his actions, including the taking of his own life, but there is no clear indication why he did so, or why he targeted Sandy Hook Elementary School.”
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Lanza, who was 20, “had significant mental health issues that affected his ability to live a normal life and to interact with others, even those to whom he should have been close.”
Lanza also had “a familiarity with and access to firearms and ammunition and an obsession with mass murders, in particular the April 1999 shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado,” Sedensky wrote.
“Investigators however, have not discovered any evidence that the shooter voiced or gave any indication to others that he intended to commit such a crime himself.”
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A police officer leads two women and a child from Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
Sedensky’s summary was released nearly a year after Lanza murdered his mother and then slaughtered 20 first graders and six staffers before killing himself on Dec. 14.
All the weapons and ammunition Lanza used were legally purchased by his doomed mom, Nancy, the report states.
Lanza killed his mom with a .22-caliber Savage Mark II rifle inside the master bedroom of their family home, according to the report.
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At the school, Lanza used a .223-caliber Bushmaster Model XM15 rifle to unleash hell.
“All of the killings were done with the Bushmaster rifle,” the report states. “He then took his own life with a single shot from a Glock 20, 10-mm pistol in classroom 10.”
Police, who arrived about five minutes after the first 911 call from the school came in at 9:35 a.m., discovered that Lanza was also armed with a Sig Sauer P226, which is a 9-mm. semi-automatic pistol.
There is no evidence that Lanza fired that weapon.
Cops also found an Izhmash Saiga-12, which is a 12-gauge semiautomatic shotgun, in the trunk of Lanza’s car. It too had not been fired.
It was difficult to gauge what impact of the findings on Newtown residents because police were keeping reporters away from gathering spots like the St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church.
Sedensky did not release the full report, which is thousands of pages long and outlines all the evidence gathered in the wake of the tragedy. That remains in the hands of the Connecticut State Police.
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