While the bodies of young children,
some of them young as five lay scattered in their school classrooms,
residents of the quiet Newton town began converging in silence and with
candles in their hands to mourn the death of 27 of their own, even as
the President of the country tearfully said “our hearts are broken
today”.
The total number of dead has been officially confirmed as 28
including 20 children in a campaign of terror that has shook the nation.
The young man who unleashed carnage of terror at the sandy hook elementary school in Connecticut on a Friday morning has been described as a socially stubborn youth as well as an honor student. But the horror that he unleashed has sent the country into mourning with thousands of heartfelt condolence messages posted on social media.
Adam Lansa, the 20 year youth killed 20 children and six adults before turning the gun to him in a cowardly act. Earlier law enforcement agencies reported that gunman was Ryan Lansa, the elder brother of Adam Lansa. Ryan Lansa has told the authorities that his brother seemed to be suffering from personality disorder and that he had not seen his brother in many months.
Adam Lansa was dressed in black and wore a military vest. Lansa was a former student of Newton High School in 2007 and was awarded high honors when he was attending ninth grade.
Adam Lansa’s mother Nancy Lansa who was shot dead by her own son was a substitute teacher at the Sandy Hook Elementary school. Nancy Lansa and her husband Peter Lansa filed for divorce in 2009 after 28 years of marriage stating “irreconcilable differences. Adam Lansa primarily stayed with his mother. Before unleashing the carnage he killed his mother and then drove to the school in his mother’s car and with three weapons.
When the shootings began the teachers in other classrooms ordered the children to huddle in safe places. A teacher led 15 students inside the rest room and told the students that she loved them, but the children had told her that they do not want to die and they wanted to see Christmas.
President Obama said “our hearts are broken today, our nation has been through this many times and we are going to come together to take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies”.
As the country reeled in shock and horror investigators were trying to piece together the evidence to determine what led to the shootings.
The next two weeks would be a very difficult period for the residents of Newton as there would be at least 26 funerals, twenty of them for children.
The Killer-Adam Lansa
The young man who unleashed carnage of terror at the sandy hook elementary school in Connecticut on a Friday morning has been described as a socially stubborn youth as well as an honor student. But the horror that he unleashed has sent the country into mourning with thousands of heartfelt condolence messages posted on social media.
Adam Lansa, the 20 year youth killed 20 children and six adults before turning the gun to him in a cowardly act. Earlier law enforcement agencies reported that gunman was Ryan Lansa, the elder brother of Adam Lansa. Ryan Lansa has told the authorities that his brother seemed to be suffering from personality disorder and that he had not seen his brother in many months.
Adam Lansa was dressed in black and wore a military vest. Lansa was a former student of Newton High School in 2007 and was awarded high honors when he was attending ninth grade.
Adam Lansa’s mother Nancy Lansa who was shot dead by her own son was a substitute teacher at the Sandy Hook Elementary school. Nancy Lansa and her husband Peter Lansa filed for divorce in 2009 after 28 years of marriage stating “irreconcilable differences. Adam Lansa primarily stayed with his mother. Before unleashing the carnage he killed his mother and then drove to the school in his mother’s car and with three weapons.
When the shootings began the teachers in other classrooms ordered the children to huddle in safe places. A teacher led 15 students inside the rest room and told the students that she loved them, but the children had told her that they do not want to die and they wanted to see Christmas.
President Obama said “our hearts are broken today, our nation has been through this many times and we are going to come together to take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies”.
As the country reeled in shock and horror investigators were trying to piece together the evidence to determine what led to the shootings.
The next two weeks would be a very difficult period for the residents of Newton as there would be at least 26 funerals, twenty of them for children.
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