14 Dec 2012
Black Friday massacre suspect Ryan Lanza’s target was his mother who worked at the Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut. On Friday the police officials took Lanza’s younger brother into custody to determine whether he was involved in the bloodiest massacre in which 29 people including 22 children were killed.
Just miles away from the Sandy Hook Elementary school, authorities placed another school under lock down after reports of a stranger lurking around.
Lanza first shot his father to death and drove to school where his mother was the Kindergarten teacher. He is alleged to have entered the school through the front office opened fire and then walked into his mother’s classroom shot her to death and students in her classroom.
At the time of the shooting nearly 450 students were at the location.
President Obama on Friday said that “we are going to have to come together and take meaningful action”.
Law enforcement agencies said Lanza after going on the rampage turned the gun to himself. Two hand guns were discovered at the school premises. It was not immediately clear why Lanza targeted the elementary school students.
Just after President Obama was briefed about the incident, he ordered flags at White House and federal buildings to be flown at half-mast to honor the victims.
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