Connecticut shooting suspect was honors student

Law enforcement canvass an area following a shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., about 60 miles (96 kilometers) northeast of New York City, Friday, Dec. 14, 2012. An official with knowledge of Friday's shooting said 27 people were dead, including 18 children. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill) / Jessica Hill

WASHINGTON He was an honors student who lived in a prosperous neighborhood with his mother, a well-liked woman who enjoyed hosting dice games and decorating the house for the holidays.

Now Adam Lanza is suspected of killing his mother and then gunning down more than two dozen people, 20 of them children, at a Connecticut grade school before taking his own life.

The 20-year-old may have suffered from a personality disorder, law enforcement officials said.

Investigators were trying to learn as much as possible about Lanza and questioned his older brother, who is not believed to have any involvement in the rampage.

Lanza killed his mother at their home before driving her car to Sandy Hook Elementary School and — armed with at least two handguns — carried out the massacre, officials said.

A third weapon, a .223-caliber rifle, was found in the car, and more guns were recovered during the investigation.

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So far, authorities have not spoken publicly of any possible motive. They found no note or manifesto, and Lanza had no criminal history.

Witnesses said the shooter didn't utter a word.

Lanza's aunt said her nephew was raised by kind, nurturing parents who would not have hesitated to seek mental help for him if he needed it.

Marsha Lanza, of Crystal Lake, Ill., said she was close with Adam Lanza's mother and sent her a Facebook message Friday morning asking how she was doing. Nancy Lanza never responded.

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Marsha Lanza described Nancy Lanza as a good mother and kind-hearted.

If her son had needed counseling, "Nancy wasn't one to deny reality," she told The Associated Press late Friday.

Marsha Lanza said her husband saw Adam as recently as June and recalled nothing out of the ordinary about him.

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Catherine Urso, who was attending a vigil Friday evening in Newtown, Conn., said her college-age son knew the killer and remembered him for his alternative style.

"He just said he was very thin, very remote and was one of the goths," she said.

Adam Lanza belonged to a technology club at Newtown High School that held "LAN parties" — short for local area network — in which students would gather at a member's home, hook up their computers into a small network and play games.

Gloria Milas, whose son Joshua was in the club with Lanza, hosted one of the parties once.

She recalled a school meeting in 2008 organized by the gunman's mother to try to save the job of the club's adviser. At the meeting, Milas said, Adam Lanza's brother Ryan said a few words in support of the adviser, who he said had taken his brother under his wing.

"My brother has always been a nerd," Ryan Lanza said then, according to Milas. "He still wears a pocket protector."

Joshua Milas, who graduated from Newtown High School in 2009, said Adam Lanza was generally a happy person but that he hadn't seen him in a few years.

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"We would hang out, and he was a good kid. He was smart," Joshua Milas said. "He was probably one of the smartest kids I know. He was probably a genius."

Lanza and his mother, Nancy, lived in a well-to-do part of Newtown, a prosperous community of 27,000 people about 60 miles northeast of New York City.

A grandmother of the suspect — who is also the mother of Nancy Lanza — was too distraught to speak when reached by phone at her home in Brooksville, Fla.

"I just don't know, and I can't make a comment right now," Dorothy Hanson, 78, said in a shaky voice as she started to cry. She said she hadn't heard anything official about her daughter and grandsons. She declined to comment further and hung up.

A law enforcement official speaking on condition of anonymity said investigators believe Lanza attended the school several years ago but appeared to have no recent connection to the place.

At least one parent said Lanza's mother was a substitute teacher there. But her name did not appear on a staff list. And the law enforcement official said investigators were unable to establish any connection so far between her and the school.

Adam Lanza's older brother, now 24 and living in Hoboken, N.J., was being questioned, a law enforcement official said. He told authorities that his brother was believed to suffer from a personality disorder, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the record about the unfolding investigation.

The official did not elaborate, and it was unclear exactly what type of disorder he might have had.

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Ryan Lanza had been extremely cooperative and was not under arrest or in custody, but investigators were still searching his computers and phone records. Ryan Lanza told law enforcement he had not been in touch with his brother since about 2010.

Brett Wilshe, a friend of Ryan Lanza's, said he sent him a Facebook message Friday asking what was going on and if he was OK. According to Wilshe, Lanza's reply was something along the lines of: "It was my brother. I think my mother is dead. Oh my God."

Adam Lanza attended Newtown High School, and several local news clippings from recent years mention his name among the school's honor roll students.

Lanza's parents filed for divorce in 2008, according to court records. His father, Peter Lanza, lives in Stamford, Conn., according to public records, and he reportedly works as a tax director for General Electric.

A neighbor in Newtown, Rhonda Cullens, said she knew Nancy Lanza from monthly get-togethers the neighborhood women had a few years back for games of bunco, a dice game.

"She was a very nice lady," Cullens said. "She was just like all the rest of us in the neighborhood, just a regular person."

Cullens recalled that Lanza liked to garden and to make her house look nice for the holidays. Lanza joked, though, that no one noticed because the house was out of view, up a hill, she said.

Sandeep Kapur, who lives two doors down from the Lanza family in Newtown, said he did not know them and was unaware of any disturbances at the Lanza house in the three years that he and his family have been in the neighborhood.

He described the area as a subdivision of well-tended, 15-year-old homes on lots of an acre or more, where many people work at companies like General Electric, Pepsi and IBM. Some are doctors, and his next-door neighbor is a bank CEO, said Kapur, a project manager at an information technology firm.

"The neighborhood's great. We have young kids, and they have lots of friends," he said. "If you drive past this neighborhood, it gives you a really warm feeling."

[ForbiddenKnowledge]

Remote Neural Stimulation and Recording

The type of "mind control" we talk about at MoFK has nothing to do with subconscious messages through advertising and television. It's not related to flickering lights, or "brain wave entrainment." For the effects we have noticed, these things are really, really stupid suggestions as mechanisms.

Real mind control involves the activation and suppression of action potentials, the firing of an individual neuron, in a pattern which creates a real effect in the brain of humans. It can so subtle, you might not even notice it happening to you. Neurons fire in patterns, and in groups, and the result of these firing patterns is thoughts, feelings, movements, etc. It is scientifically possible to cause these firing patterns to be activated remotely, without the use of an implant, by "injecting" electricity into individual neurons using advanced technology.

This is done by teleporting charge via entanglement, something that has been alluded to in recently published research.

For the last 5 decades, U.S. intelligence has done a significant amount of research and development into a technology called "TEMPEST." This technology was originally used in order to reconstruct usable information from monitors, integrated circuits, etc in order to remotely surveil electronic devices. Later, technology was developed which was able to do the reverse, and cause these machines to act in a certain manner.

Human brains are, for all intents and purposes purposes, advanced computers whose mechanism of action is the product of electrical impulses, and the technology surrounding "TEMPEST" could be modified to take control of, and remotely surveil the thoughts and feelings of human beings.


Throw in a "bit" of neuroscience research, and you have the proverbial Manchurian Candidate... and with a bit of infrastructure build out, Orwell's prophesy fulfilled.

There's proof that this technology is perfected, and it's all around you. A Lockheed Martin researcher spoke about it publicly in 1999, and it may have gotten him killed. John Norseen had a lot to say about mind control. NASA has talked about its potential use in airports. There are a significant number of victims complaining about it all over the world.

If the technology is sufficiently advanced enough, it can be so subtle you won't even notice it. If you look at the big picture though, you'll probably agree it might be happening.

It appears the United States Military used it to cover up the existence of a network of spy satellites.

There's a significant amount of public research in the field, imagine where the military is.

We are trying to save the world from a tyrannical intergovernmental organization that is hell bent on destroying our species. Please help by reading the links below, and then acting. I'd like it if the first action you took was telling everyone you know to read the same thing. This will start what has been called an awakening at which point public knowledge of something really insidious might help to stop it from happening.
It's also possible to destroy entanglement, which might be the equivalent of a modern day exorcism, or 'freeing yourself from the matrix'. More about that here: http://unduecoercion.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-science-of-satan.html

A pattern in history, we believe it is a map and a signature, proving that the 'voice of god' technology, has been given to humanity.
http://unduecoercion.blogspot.com/2012/10/evil-empire.html

How it works, The map above leads us to a specific mechanism of how this technology works. This is the science behind modern day mind control.
http://unduecoercion.blogspot.com/2012/11/forbidden-knowledge-quantum-charge.html

It's Mark on history, this means that prior to the last half century, this technology was in the hands of a nefarious force, one which pulled strings in major human events without our knowledge or approval.
http://unduecoercion.blogspot.com/2012/11/angels-and-demons.html

Relation to religion
http://unduecoercion.blogspot.com/2012/11/of-divinity-and-devil.html

Why we care
http://unduecoercion.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-truth-about-mindwar-to-victims.html

How I know about mind control.
This is a work in progress, updated daily. It is a personal story of Illuminati mind control, gang-stalking, psycho-surveillance, and general weirdness. It takes you through the story of events that occurred between 2010 and 2011, and describes my inner thoughts and interaction with the dark force shaping the future of humanity. I believe this force to be older than humanity, unearthly, and directly responsible for many religious phenomenon throughout our history. It is also current engaging world governments, intelligence agencies, and organized crime in a conspiracy designed to fulfill the prophesy of Revelation.
http://unduecoercion.blogspot.com/p/silence-betrayal_10.html

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[ArtsCAT]

AMEN! And THAT should be changed immediately! We should be promoting diversity and religious tolerance and freedom, not by outlawing from school by separation of church and state or whatever.... I'm tired of policy makers putting restrictions against "Good" in humanity and doing NOTHING to put an end to corruption, starting at the top with themselves.

[Pentagear]

ARTSCAT: Do you really think that God would have changed the outcome here? God is a belief, he is not a physical force. He will not stand in front of the door and block a gunman's path. He will not wrap himself around a child and become some sort of bullet proof armor. If you really want to argue the involvement of God in situations like this, you've already relinquished your mind to emotion, not to logic and reason.

[manoffinland]

How do I get in to school with so many weapons. He was disturbed but still free access to weapons at home. Why is that the home is full of weapons? The problem is that if there are weapons, so they may be used when the head breaks. Should set up a depot where you can visit the sign for his own weapon. At the same time can be checked to human intentions. Not in the home is not a gun store. Three pistols and a rifle at home, why?

A day earlier in China, a man shot 26 children. This is not just America's problem. There is no motivation for this normal. School, day care center and supermarket are the sights as they can be easily reached, and the resistance is not much. These killers are cowards who are looking for the weak and the young. Most of them eat Prozac drugs. The study shows that 80% of school violence factors eats psychoactive drugs.

[jaglenn1]

"A day earlier in China, a man shot 26 children" He used a knife you dimwit.......

[manoffinland]

How do I get in to school with so many weapons. He was disturbed but still free access to weapons at home. Why is that the home is full of weapons? The problem is that if there are weapons, so they may be used when the head breaks. Should set up a depot where you can visit the sign for his own weapon. At the same time can be checked to human intentions. Not in the home is not a gun store. Three pistols and a rifle at home, why?

A day earlier in China, a man shot 26 children. This is not just America's problem. There is no motivation for this normal. School, day care center and supermarket are the sights as they can be easily reached, and the resistance is not much. These killers are cowards who are looking for the weak and the young. Most of them eat Prozac drugs. The study shows that 80% of school violence factors eats psychoactive drugs.

[scvblwx]

DIANA4LO's idea of making insurance for gun ownership mandatory like car insurance is a good idea. The insurance industry would back it.

[ArtsCAT]

Absolutely agree, 100%!!! Violent Video Gaming is absolutely responsible for this! Why has this never been outlawed??? It infects minds and desensitizes the emotions... blackens the soul. I've always worried it could drive twisted minds to seek thrills in real life, if they discover a taboo existing in Gaming such as children for victims. Can't attest to that, just always feared it was a probable outcome to desensitization from video games that put the gamer in the roll of shooter.

[Pentagear]

I completely agree with NEWSTER, insurance will not do a thing to PREVENT these things from happening, merely more money gets shuffled around when it does.

ARTSCAT I have to say that is the most ridiculous thing I've heard in a while. Video Games have nothing to do with creating crimes. If a video game, as you put it, pollutes the mind of the individual playing it, than that individual cannot delineate between fact and fiction, which means they are not stable minded. The ESRB rating are there for a reason. If a kid ends up playing a game that isn't rated acceptable for them, than it is the PARENT who is to blame, not the child.

[JdelPasl]

Because the first thing a parent do, as soon as their kid can move their hands is buy them a violent video game, their brains are being educated by the minds of those that develop those games.

[Think4times]

Stop blaming the video games!

Blame the PARENTS that don't make sure kids understand the difference between fantasy and reality!

[manoffinland]

How do I get in to school with so many weapons. He was disturbed but still free access to weapons at home. Why is that the home is full of weapons? The problem is that if there are weapons, so they may be used when the head breaks. Should set up a depot where you can visit the sign for his own weapon. At the same time can be checked to human intentions. Not in the home is not a gun store. Three pistols and a rifle at home, why?

A day earlier in China, a man shot 26 children. This is not just America's problem. There is no motivation for this normal. School, day care center and supermarket are the sights as they can be easily reached, and the resistance is not much. These killers are cowards who are looking for the weak and the young. Most of them eat Prozac drugs. The study shows that 80% of school violence factors eats psychoactive drugs.

[diana4lo]

5. He had access to not only the guns but the ammo to use them successfully. We need to start restricting ammo even more than guns and to ban semi automatics and other assault weapons. A ban works for machine guns and bazookas, and it can work for these as well. Make a grace period for a guns for cash program and then make owning them a highly punishable offense. Make it mandatory for each gun to have have an insurance policy just as we have car insurance. Tax weapons and ammo higher than we do alcohol and tobacco. Other developed countries manage to not have a fraction of our gun violence and they all have stricter laws than here. 34 people die every single day in the US from gun violence. That costs us in law enforcement, medical care, public defenders, court costs, etc... Make the owners of the guns pay for the havoc caused via insurance. We treat owning motor vehicles more seriously than we do owning weapons, intended for harming others.

6. Any citizen who is horrified by the continuing parade of gun violence needs to make their politicians realize that the gun lobby does not own the country. It is our country and we need to make it safe. The NRA will yammer about the right to bear arms in order to keep our country safe, yet we have a military for that and the over 12,400 who die every year due to gun violence in the US are not safe. We have wars with fewer annual casualties!

[diana4lo]

5. He had access to not only the guns but the ammo to use them successfully. We need to start restricting ammo even more than guns and to ban semi automatics and other assault weapons. A ban works for machine guns and bazookas, and it can work for these as well. Make a grace period for a guns for cash program and then make owning them a highly punishable offense. Make it mandatory for each gun to have have an insurance policy just as we have car insurance. Tax weapons and ammo higher than we do alcohol and tobacco. Other developed countries manage to not have a fraction of our gun violence and they all have stricter laws than here. 34 people die every single day in the US from gun violence. That costs us in law enforcement, medical care, public defenders, court costs, etc... Make the owners of the guns pay for the havoc caused via insurance. We treat owning motor vehicles more seriously than we do owning weapons, intended for harming others.

6. Any citizen who is horrified by the continuing parade of gun violence needs to make their politicians realize that the gun lobby does not own the country. It is our country and we need to make it safe. The NRA will yammer about the right to bear arms in order to keep our country safe, yet we have a military for that and the over 12,400 who die every year due to gun violence in the US are not safe. We have wars with fewer annual casualties!

[diana4lo]

1. Autistic kids are not killers due to autism. While he may have been autistic, there was obviously something at play here mentally.

2. Why the heck did his mother have multiple semi automatic hand guns and rifles in her possession?

3. This family does not sound perfect to me. The brother has not been in contact with him in 2 years, so something was going on with that. The parents recently split. I am sure we will find out more in the coming days.

4. Being smart does not mean someone is not deranged. Many killers have been brilliant just as many are dim.

5. He had access to not only the guns but the ammo to use them successfully. We need to start restricting ammo even more than guns and to ban semi automatics and other assault weapons. A ban works for machine guns and bazookas, and it can work for these as well. Make a grace period for a guns for cash program and then make owning them a highly punishable offense. Make it mandatory for each gun to have have an insurance policy just as we have car insurance. Tax weapons and ammo higher than we do alcohol and tobacco. Other developed countries manage to not have a fraction of our gun violence and they all have stricter laws than here. 34 people die every single day in the US from gun violence. That costs us in law enforcement, medical care, public defenders, court costs, etc... Make the owners of the guns pay for the havoc caused via insurance. We treat owning motor vehicles more seriously than we do owning weapons, intended for harming others.

6. Any citizen who is horrified by the continuing parade of gun violence needs to make their politicians realize that the gun lobby does not own the country. It is our country and we need to make it safe. The NRA will yammer about the right to bear arms in order to keep our country safe, yet we have a military for that and the over 12,400 who die every year due to gun violence in the US are not safe. We have wars with fewer annual casualties!

[diana4lo]

1. Autistic kids are not killers due to autism. While he may have been autistic, there was obviously something at play here mentally.

2. Why the heck did his mother have multiple semi automatic hand guns and rifles in her possession?

3. This family does not sound perfect to me. The brother has not been in contact with him in 2 years, so something was going on with that. The parents recently split. I am sure we will find out more in the coming days.

4. Being smart does not mean someone is not deranged. Many killers have been brilliant just as many are dim.