52 Lock Up: Sandy Hook

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Warning Discretion Viewer is ADVISED! Today I am covering the famous Sandy Hook Elementary shooting. The details of what happened to the children are not graphic but I will walk you through Adam Lanza’s life and spiral that lead to the most heinous mass shooting in American history.

Nancy Lanza was born Nancy Jean Champion in Newton Connecticut; nicknamed Beanie in high school. Her mom was a school nurse. Her brother became a town police officer. She’s described as having a charmed life.

She met Peter J Lanza and wed on June 6th 1981. The couple built their home next door to Nancy’s childhood home. She went on to become a stay at home mom.

In 1986 they had their first son Ryan John Lanza.

Adam Peter Lanza was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, on April 22, 1992. was quiet and socially awkward. He didn’t speak until he was three, and he always understood many more words than he could muster. He showed such hypersensitivity to physical touch that tags had to be removed from his clothing. In preschool and at Sandy Hook, where he was a pupil till the beginning of sixth grade, he sometimes smelled things that weren’t there and washed his hands excessively. A doctor diagnosed sensory-integration disorder, and Adam underwent speech therapy and occupational therapy in kindergarten and first grade. Teachers were told to watch for seizures. Ryan his older brother remembers how incredibly close Adam was with their father. They’d spend hours playing at two Lego tables in the basement, making up stories for the little towns they built. Adam even invented his own board games.

According to The New Yorker interview with Peter Lanza, Adam loved Sandy Hook school,” Peter said. “He stated, as he was growing older, how much he had liked being a little kid.”. Although he was close with his father he still struggled with basic emotions, and received coaching from his mother Nancy whom left her stockbroker lifestyle to become a stay at home mom. It’s said that When he had to show feelings for a school play, His mother told a friend, “Adam has taken it very seriously, even practicing facial expressions in the mirror!”

However in hindsight when Adam was in the fifth grade According to the state’s attorney’s report, Adam began to think that other people in the world deserved more than he did in life. Later in the same year year, Adam paired up with another boy wrote a story called “The Big Book of Granny,”. The story is about an old woman with a gun in her cane kills and by the 3rd chapter, Granny & her son want to taxidermy a boy for their mantelpiece. In one of the other chapters, a character called Dora the Berserker says, “I like hurting people. . . . Especially children.” Adam even tried to sell copies of the book at the school and got in trouble. This is strange because the school did not react to this. That’s not the average book publishing story a fifth grader produces. Again A couple of years later, a teacher noted “disturbing” violence in his writing and described him as “intelligent but not normal, with anti-social issues.”

Peter and Nancy’s marriage was starting to unravel. Peter’s own father had been relatively disengaged from his wife and buried himself in work, and Peter didn’t have a strong model for family life. “I’d work ridiculous hours during the week and Nancy would take care of the kids,” he told me. “Then, on the weekends, she’d do errands and I’d spend time with the kids.” Peter frequently took the boys on weekend hiking trips.

In 2001, Peter and Nancy separated. Adam was nine; when a psychiatrist later asked him about it, he said that his parents were as irritating to each other as they were to him. The father would describe the separation as being the same as when they were together because he still only saw the children on the weekend even though he did live in Stamford.

Adam has now entered middle school. He was incredibly excited about entering middle school and became extremely loquacious about it when discussing it with his father. He enjoyed doing political debates and apparently was a fan of Ron Paul, and liked to argue economic theory. He became fascinated with guns and with the Second World War, and even showed an interest in joining the military. He never talked about mass murder and then he also was not known to be violent in school. Although he did struggle to express his emotions he did have a sharp sense of humor which his father remembers especially when he took him to see Bill Cosby live. He loved reruns of “The Bob Newhart Show” and “Get Smart,” which he would watch with his dad. One Christmas, Adam told his parents that he wanted to use his savings to buy toys for needy children, and Peter took him shopping for them. It seems like much of his happiness revolved around his father and the closeness of their relationship.

The drastic changes continued because 1 day The structure of the school day changed; instead of sitting in one classroom, he had to move from room to room, & he took it as a punishment. He began to feel sensory overload which ended up affecting his ability to concentrate in class. His mother started to try to help him by Xerox copying his textbooks to strictly black-and-white because the color graphics were considered to be unbearable to him.

He actually stop playing music because he enjoyed playing the saxophone and doing a little quirky things you enjoy doing like climbing trees he began avoiding eye contact with everyone. His gait was off. As a side note your gait is a person’s walking pattern however, for it to become abnormal it can include neurological conditions motor impairments or sensory; perhaps he quit saxophone because there was a neurological condition that’ was overlooked. He could have had orthopedic issues like osteoarthritis (inflammation in the bones) or a skeletal deformity to explain the change in his gait. A gait disorder can also come from other medical conditions like heart failure, respiratory insufficiency or peripheral arterial occlusive disease which is a blockage of an artery in the legs but can happen in the arms too but it’s rare. But that would have meant that by his age would have been exposed to atherosclerosis, clogged arteries. When you look at potential reasons for the gait disorder occurring and what happened and the other things going on, it seems neurological. He was going through sensory overload which is when the brain has too much sensory information coming in at the same time and the brain cant interpret it all at the same time. The brain can’t prioritize what sensory information it needs to focus on.

Adam started saying he hated birthdays and holidays which would make sense for the sensory overload. When someone is going through sensory overload they begin to have difficulty focusing on which sensory to focus on, they can become extremely irritable, restless, have the urge to cover their ears or shield her eyes from whatever it is that is causing the overload. They can also feel overly excited and extreme amounts of stress, fear or anxiety. They can also feel sensory overload from whatever is touching their skin. Adam is going from enjoying things to suddenly the things he once loved becoming too much for him. He began to have panic attacks that were so extreme Nancy his mother needed to be at the school frequently.

Now by the time he is 13 people are associating his symptoms with signs of Autism or also known as Austic spectrum Disorder Which refers to a broad range of conditions characterized by challenges with social skills, repetitive behaviors, speech and nonverbal communication. DO NOT judge anyone on the spectrum based on Adam, I am only telling the story. There are people who do not have Autism and committed crimes. The spectrum is wider than most people realize which is still being studied today. His parents were doing the best they could on co-parenting to tend to their son’s needs.

By the time Adam was 13 years old his parents took him to see a psychiatrist named Paul J Fox who actually diagnosed Adam with Asperger syndrome, which is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication, along with restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests. The term is still used but it has been changed over to being part of the Autistic spectrum disorder but the American Psychiatric Association. The family was happy about getting a diagnoses so they can help their son but Adam was consenting to it or rather not accepting it.

Both of his parents began to engage in a way to make his life better by doing a multitude of things. His father Peter started attending meetings of the global and regional Asperger syndrome partnership in order to talk to other adults are on the spectrum so he can gain insight to what his sons life would be like in the future. He was hoping to get him into the partnership so this way he’d be able to form relationships with other people who have Asperger’s as well. The mother Nancy was considering moving to a town that was about 50 miles away with their were more schools structured for those with special needs.

He was briefly enrolled in a Catholic school that seemed to offer more structure, but unfortunately that didn’t go well, either. His psychiatrist Fox recommended homeschooling. His psychiatrist made the argument to the parents that they were disadvantages of sending Adam to a regular school versus homeschooling because it seems he was more isolated at a regular school with his peers. From the eighth grade his mother taught him humanities and his father would meet up with Adam twice a week to teach him science. Nancy even coördinated the homeschool curriculum with Newtown High School to make sure that Adam could graduate rather than simply get a G.E.D.

His mother was active and made many of the decisions, she was driven to help him. Although homeschooled Adam continued to attend Newtown High’s Tech Club meetings; he seemed to fit in there better; he even held a party for the club at home. Those small moments Where relief to his parents but Adam still struggle with the idea of having friends. Adam once asked his father why do you need friends?

Adam became frustrated with how his parents were teaching him overtime and began to make complaints about the classes and the class material. When Adam was fourteen, his brother Ryan left for college, Peter and Nancy took him to Yale’s Child Study Center for further diagnosis. The psychiatrist there named Robert King noticed that Adam became to develop an obsessive-compulsive disorder, which can often accompany autism; he notices this because Adam refused to touch metal objects such as doorknobs and didn’t like his mother to touch them, either, because he feared contamination. He didn’t like it his mother leaned on certain objects in the house. If she walked in front of them to enter into a room he would ask her to redo it. Psychiatrist king notice that the parents were more focused on his schooling opposed to his social disabilities which he saw as an Extremely red flag. His mother was becoming a prisoner in her own home.

When he returns to Fox, Adam was prescribed Lexapro Is an anti-depressant does prescribed for 12 major types of depression or people with anxiety. Unfortunately being on the prescription turned Adam into a very vegetative state reported by his mother.

The couple divorced in 2009 when Adam was 16 years old. Thereafter, Peter reportedly relocated to Stamford, Connecticut, and agreed to pay annual alimony of $240,000 with periodic increases. They were still trying to help him but according to the New Yorker interview with Peter Lanza it is said that according to studies done, Violence by autistic people is more commonly reactive than planned—triggered, for example, by an invasion of personal space. Studies of people with autism who have committed crimes suggest that at least half also suffer from an additional condition—from psychosis, in about twenty-five per cent of cases. Some researchers believe that a marked increase in the intensity of an autistic person’s preoccupations can be a warning sign, especially if those preoccupations have a sinister aspect. It seems like hindsight is 2020 with this particular situation. As I was reading more about Adam I started to get the impression that Asperger’s was unintentionally masking potential schizophrenia or another form of psychosis.

Psychopathy and autism both lack in empathy the differences in order to distinguish them you have to look at their cognitive empathy, an autistic person may have difficulty understanding what the emotions are or perhaps trouble interpreting what other peoples nonverbal social cues are and the emotional empathy of a psychopath who has no concern about hurting other people and has the inability to share their feelings. Autism has been referred to in court rooms as a way to argue for leniency based on the grounds that the autistic person is confused about the cause-and-effect of what they were doing however and Adams case in the future it is difficult to apply that because of the precautionary steps and he talk later on; Like destroying one of his hard drives that had an electronics spreadsheet about the mass murder along with photographs of him holding a gun to his head.

There are also references that his mother when the school that just because something physically hurt Adam it doesn’t necessarily mean that he was going to stop which in recent study suggested that perhaps his lack of empathy was connected to his in ability or insensitivity to feel physical pain. Nancy would email the father about “bad nights” that Adam would have and start eventually telling Peter that he should not visit Adam during has bad days.

Peter began to distance himself from what was happening following Nancy’s protocols. Although Peter and Nancy had different parenting styles and managing Adam in hindsight Nancy’s obsession with indulging every compulsion that Adam had seemed to have exacerbated the situation. Adam begin to have difficulty with coordination which goes back to the neurological problems he was having and by the time Adam was 17 Peter had told Nancy one time during a hike they had taken that Adam had paws to tie his shoes and Nancy was actually surprised that he was able to tie his own shoes. This can be an indicator that he was aware of the control he had over his mother and was abusing the power over her and then acting differently with the father.

Adam sense of humor began to change from the ages between 16th and 17 where he had found a picture of Karl Marx, Lenin and Stalin and Mao that said “Comrades, we must rectify the faltering facial hair standards.” His father thought it was hilarious and got T-shirts made with the image and Adam’s words. Everywhere Adam blocked people are consistently trying to encourage Adam as well as engage with him as much as possible. They were doing their best to be as strong of a support system as they could for him. One of the ways to engage him was when his mother Nancy would begin to take him on trips to the shooting range. Both parents consider their son to be non-violent and they understood that the best way to build a connection to someone with Asperger‘s is to often participate in their fascinations so since they considered him to be non-violence but he did have a fascination with this; they began to indulge on it.

Now let’s continue with the divorce of 2009, Peter bought Adam a car and even taught him how to drive it. Adam was even an extremely careful driver; which adds onto why his parents didn’t think he was violent or would ever break a rule. His father noticed he was losing interest in him but he didn’t take offense; which can be considered a normal teenage thing to do right? How could Peter know what that meant? Later on Adam began to talk less and less to his mother and began to obsess over mass murders. This took his attention from school and when he was struggling to focus on school Nancy tried getting him a tutor but right before they would leave he would have a meltdown and she would cater to his needs and he would not go. Adam began to frolic of different ideas of attending Cornell or joining the army then his father and him had a small argument because he wanted to go to Norwalk Community College and take 5 classes there; judging from his history his parents were concerned it would be a major sensory overload. Peter suggested to do 2 classes so they can do it together and Adam wasn’t having it. 2010 was around the last time Peter saw Adam afterwards.

In the background of all of this Adams brother Ryan graduates from college and moved to New Jersey away from his brother. Adam was very resentful towards Peter for telling him about the heavy overload and Nancy cater to what I don’t want it. Nancy have full control over the situation and would tell Peter he does not want to see you right now let’s just work around what makes him comfortable. Peter and Adam become drastically separated because Peter was afraid of showing up at the house and then it would cause a major meltdown or more problems and Nancy was going to cushion everything around her son. Peter met another woman named Shelley but he never introduced Shelley to his son because he was afraid that again that would be another major sensory overload for Adam and cause problems. Shelley was only introduced to his other son Ryan.

By 2011 Adam was going to the local movie house to play dance dance revolution DDR and his relationship with his father and even his brother became more and more strained. He did not want to respond to their emails or their phone calls and made Nancy a prisoner in her own home. Which in hindsight Peter stated that he thinks that she wanted everyone to think that she could handle the situation and just didn’t ask for help when she should’ have. She never complained. She kept guns in the house and she left her door unlocked to her bedroom so it was evidence other people that she did not fear her son; but it is also obvious that she did not understand or see oncoming danger. Even about a week before the mass shooting Nancy supposedly I told an acquaintance that she was worried she was losing him by her reference to losing him seem to be more on his personal withdrawal opposed to him becoming violent. Nancy responded to Adam with anxiety opposed to being fearful.

Nancy once asked Adam if he would feel sad if anything happened to her, he told her, “No.” He later wrote in Word about why females are inherently selfish and labeled the document selfish; it was found on his computer later. This was referencing to her question though she did everything to accommodate him in every way possible.

December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza woke up put on black clothing, yellow earplugs, sunglasses, and an olive green utility vest. (No body armor as initially reported) and shot his mother 4 times in her bed with a with a .22 caliber savage rifle. According to studies, Matricide is often committed by sons who were overprotected which does put Adam into this category. A son who is committed matricide and the studies stated and I quote “As an desperate act to free themselves from the states of their dependency on the mother, a dependency that they believe has not allowed them to grow up” although in another study it was stated that the mother child relationship became unusually intense and conflict-laden,” while the fathers “were uniformly passive and remained relatively uninvolved.” This seems to be more accurate in describing the situation with Peter and Nancy with Adam.

He grabbed his brother Ryan’s old ID & drove in his mother’s car to the school that once made him the happiest kid. Shortly after 9:35 a.m., armed with his mother's Bushmaster XM15-E2S rifle and ten magazines with 30 rounds each. Sandy Hook Elementary school protocol that locked the school doors at 9:30 promptly & he shot through the glass. This was actually a new system implemented to the school a month prior to the shooting which although still a tragedy it does make me question if you would’ve killed more children have this not been placed.

He shoots the glass door where Principal Dawn Hochsprung and the school psychologist Mary Sherlach were in a meeting with other faculty members when they heard the shots but didnt recognize it to be gunshots. The principal, school psychologist & teacher Natalie Hammond Went into the hallway to check out and see what the noise was and that is where they met Adam. The women screamed “Shooter Stay put!” A teacher hiding in a math lab heard the janitor Rick Thorne yell “Put the gun down”. Adam had killed the principal & school psychologist. The teacher Natalie Hammond that What is with them in the hallway was actually shot in the leg first and then she went down she simply state still on so she didn’t hear any more noise and crawled her way into the conference room.

A nine-year-old boy stated he heard Adam say: "Put your hands up!" and someone else say "Don't shoot!". The students heard people yelling and gunshots over the intercom while the teachers were taking refuge in a closet in the gymnasium, a Substitute kindergarten teacher was wounded by a ricocheted bullet while she was closing the door.

Adam did enter the main office but he didn’t see the people that were hiding there and simply returned back to the school hallway to look from more victims. The school nurse Sarah Cox hid under her desk and remembered seeing her door open and seeing Adams boots facing her about 20 feet away but he only stood there for a few seconds and eventually just walked out and left. It was the school nurse and the school secretary Barbara Halsted who called 911 and hid inside of the first aid supply closet for four hours.

Adam walked into a first-grade classroom where Lauren Rousseau, a substitute teacher, She was hurting all of her first grade students to the back of the room I was trying to hide them inside of the bathroom but Adam had forced his way into the classroom where is Lauren and a behavioral therapist who is brand new at that job Rachel D’Avino were killed & 15 of the students were killed. Initially at the scene 14 of them were officially dead but there was one injured child who ended up dying later at the hospital.

There was a soul survivor at the age of six years old who is found by the police in a classroom that followed the shooting and it is apparent that she had any corner of the classrooms bathroom during the shooting and the little girls families pastor said that the reason why she survived was because she was playing dead. When her mother got to her the first thing she told her mother was “mommy I’m OK but all my friends are dead” at six years old.

A girl hiding in a bathroom with two teachers told police that she heard a boy in the classroom screaming, "Help me! I don't want to be here!" to which Lanza responded, "Well, you're here," followed by "hammering" sounds of gunshots.

According to reports the next part is a little conflicting with the times but to be honest I think it all happened simultaneously. Adam went to the next first grade classroom that was nearby where the classroom teacher Victoria Soto how concealed some of the students in a closet or the bathroom and some of the other students were hiding under the desk. As the teacher Soto was walking back to the classroom door to lock it Adam had just entered the classroom. Soto told him that the children were in the auditorium. When several of the children came out of their hiding places and tried to run for safety, Lanza fatally shot them. Soto put herself between her students and the shooter, who then fatally shot her. He saw that they were children under the desk And he shot at them. One of the students Jesse Lewis screamed at his classmates to run and several of them apparently did and that kid was looking right at Adam when he fatally shot him; that’s a brave fucking to do that & boldly look Adam in the face.

It’s said that the 6 kids who escaped were able to because Adam’s weapon jammed or he was reloading it. Those Six surviving children from the class and a school bus driver took refuge at a nearby home.

Here are some of the survivors.

First grade teacher Kaitlin Roig who was 29 years old at the time, hid 14 of her students in a bathroom and barricaded the door, telling them to be completely quiet to remain safe. It is believed that Lanza bypassed her classroom, which was the first classroom on the left side of the hallway; possibly because, following a lockdown drill weeks earlier, Roig had failed to remove a piece of black construction paper covering the small window in her classroom door. Lanza may have assumed that Roig's classroom was empty because the door was closed and the window covered.

School library staff Yvonne Cech and Maryann Jacob first hid 18 children in a part of the library the school used for lockdown in practice drills. They discovered that one door would not lock so instead they had the children crawl into a storage room, where Cech barricaded the door with a filing cabinet to protect them.

Music teacher Maryrose Kristopik who was 50 years old at the time, barricaded her fourth-graders in a tiny supply closet during the carnage. Lanza arrives a few moments later and begins pounding on the door & yelling, "Let me in,"; but the students in Kristopik's class quietly hid inside.

Two third-grade students who were chosen as classroom helpers were walking down the hallway to the office to deliver the morning attendance sheet as the shooting began; luckily they were spotted by Teacher Abbey Clements who pulled both children into her classroom; where they hid quietly.

Laura Feinstein was a reading specialist at the school and gathered two students who were outside her classroom and hid with them under desks after they heard gunshots. Feinstein called the school office and tried to call 911, but could not connect due to lack of reception on her cell phone. She hid with the children for approximately 40 minutes until law enforcement came to lead them out of the room to safety.

The police heard the final shot at 9:40:03 a.m.; which they believed that it was Lanza shooting himself in the lower rear portion of his head with the Glock 20SF in classroom 10. 156 shots were fired in 5 minutes at the school.

While this is occurring Peter is at work and went to get lunch at work and found his co-workers surrounding the television news. He was shocked by the developing news and remembered saying “both of my kids went to that school. He headed back into the office and as the news is developing the story he learns that the news began to report it was a 20 and 24 year old involved in the shooting. He wasn’t able to focus at work and decided to head home; and watched the news coverage there. When he arrives home there was a reporter waiting for him in his driveway who told him that somebody in his home was involved with the shootings at the elementary school.

He closed the door and ran to the television and saw that CNN was identifying the shooter as Ryan and it didn’t sit right with him. He knew it couldn’t be Ryan. He calls up his second wife Shelley but kept repeating “It’s Peter. I think it’s Adam”. Shelley didn’t really understand what was happening so when she got home they called Ryan and headed towards him on a 2 hour drive to Hoboken New Jersey. By that tie, Ryan had left his office early and when he arrived home there were Police there taping off his apartment building. Unbeknownst to them, Adam as I said earlier was carrying Ryan’s ID. The whole family headed to the police station to answer questions. After hours of interrogation they headed to Peter’s aunt to get their heads together and then headed to a hotel, then moved again to Shelley’s family house and other places that were considered safe houses with a full protective unit supplied with even a canine unit and interviews with the FBI.

Adam Lanza made a very nefarious mark in history when he did what he did and he shot himself afterwards. He left many in need of the psychological help that even he needed but refused from the parents and families and friends of the children who died, the adults who tried to protect them and the family he leaves behind. This is a kid where there were signs and his parents genuinely did everything could. Unfortunately the coddling of his mother fed into his desires and he knew she would accommodate him as he expected; I think part of the reason he excluded his father was because he was not bending that one time.

The biggest problem is although the resources were there, Nancy paid with her life and the lives of others through coddling her son for everything he wanted, but not needed. Adam knew what he could get away with. Yes he may have been on the spectrum but that seemed to be a masking over the other conditions. Him being on the spectrum seemed to have taken from what was going on; that he was potentially, narcissistic & schizoid personality disorder.

This is a personality disorder characterized by a lack of interest in social relationships, a tendency toward a solitary or sheltered lifestyle, secretiveness, emotional coldness, detachment and apathy. Affected individuals may be unable to form intimate attachments to others and simultaneously possess a rich and elaborate but exclusively internal fantasy world. Personality disorders that are susceptible to worsening with age include paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal, obsessive compulsive, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic, avoidant, & dependent. He may have been on the autistic spectrum but I think he was more on the schizophrenic spectrum first which is why a lot of the symptoms became overlooked or rather diagnosed and properly. The other issue is his mother not asking for help when she truly needed it.

The mass shootings is school stay with you. I remember being in high school and learning about columbine and I remember threats of shootings that were supposed to occur in my school or a potential bomb. Remember the heightened security that would happen at my school and I remember how empty the school would be because of the threats of a shooter. I remember Students mapping out escape routes just in case if we had one. Facing death as a child or as a teenager will change you. Usually when you are in your youth you feel invincible and then the comprehension of your mortality sets in.

As a side note, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was sued for defamation because he stated that the families of the 26 lost loved ones faked the deaths; that the shooting was a hoax on his website InfoWars. The shooting became the advocacy for gun laws and gun advocates to fight; which is disheartening to say that children being killed was a hoax; as if adults do not harm children.

Unfortunately, there are adults who will harm children, whether it is murder, rape, beatings, abuse, torture and more; and even these things happen by other children. It’s worse when it comes from an adult because its an unsettling idea of them knowing better and still choosing a violent path. This was not the time for that. My heart went out and continues to go out to those directly affected by the tragedy and those who were traumatized from reading about it or watching it on the news.

Mass shootings are a terrifying nightmare for Americans, whether you’re at school, opening night at a movie theater, a major concert beneath a hotel, or at a club. Either way stay safe out there and make healthier decisions. There’s nothing wrong with getting help.

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