Connecticut School Shooting: Shooter's home offers clues to motive (VIDEO)

By: Crimesider Staff
Topics: 911 ,; Daily Blotter

(CBS) Newtown, Conn. - "CBS This Morning" senior correspondent John Miller reports on the latest developments in the investigation of the attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, Connecticut on Friday.

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Miller says there have been reports that Adam Lanza, the shooting suspect, showed up at the school door and was buzzed in. He also notes there have been reports that he shot out a window and either walked through the glass or opened the door there.

According to Miller, investigators entered Adama Lanza's home that he shared with his mother, who was found fatally shot in the face at the residence, and found the 20-year-old's room "immaculate, everything was folded and put away, nothing strewn around."

Miller says it seems "telling in some ways, of the organized personality of someone who would go to such intricate and detailed planning for such a terrible crime."

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by whywhywhy56 December 17, 2012 6:51 AM EST: Why are people talking about race when a whole kindergarten class was just mowed down? Plese try to be sensitive to this artice, and this subject because people are in a nightmare over their children dying like this before Christmas. Thank you.; Reply to this comment

by mnbv9 December 15, 2012 11:27 PM EST

When the suspect is a muslim/middle eastern, they call him a "terrorist" and everyone starts going ape **** on every brown person they see. When the suspect is black, they call him a "gangster", "thug", and everyone starts discriminating against the blacks. BUT when the suspect is white, he has a "mental illness" .... typical americans..

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by bsnews12 December 16, 2012 12:13 AM EST: Here is the logic:
Muslims kill for 72 virgins.
Whites kill because they are crazy.
Blacks kill, EVERYDAY, for absolutely no reason at all.

Now, do you understand? The first two follow a train of thought. The last follows no train of thought; and, can only be likened to a sub human species.


by standupfanatic December 15, 2012 8:38 PM EST: Don't be stupid, Linkovich. It may be one piece of the profile puzzle or the mother may have been compulsive or controlling.; Reply to this comment


by Linkovich December 15, 2012 12:53 PM EST: Should we call the police if we know someone with a really clean room, since it's a clue to a motive for mass murder?; Reply to this comment