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Lanza Had Arsenal Of Guns, Ammunition, Swords, Knives
The four search warrants for the Newtown home on Yogananda Court that Lanza shared with his mother, Nancy, and for the black Honda Civic that he drove to the school on Dec. 14 were sealed for 90 days in late December. (STEPHEN DUNN)
By DAVE ALTIMARI and JENNY WILSON,[email protected]The Hartford Courant12:17 p.m. EDT, March 28, 2013
Newtown shooter Adam Lanza kept an arsenal of guns, more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition, Samurai swords, a bayonet and knives at his home, search warrants released Thursday indicate.
The warrants show police found the items after searching Lanza's home and car following the Dec. 14 Link Removed, where Lanza killed 20 first graders and six adults.
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Portions of the documents were blacked out, including the name of a witness who told police that Link Removed was Adam's "life." Police found a copy of Adam Lanza's report card from Sandy Hook in the house.
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The warrants state that investigators found at least five guns in the house, including the .22 rifle that he used to kill his mother, Nancy Lanza, before going on his killing spree. They also found thousands of dollars worth of computer equipment and video gaming consoles, and a receipt to a gun range in Weatherford, Okla.
A gun safe, where some weapons were stored, was located in Adam Lanza's bedroom, a warrant indicates. The list of more ammunition filled nearly two pages. Investigators found full boxes of shotgun shells with buckshot, hundreds of rounds for the .22 rifle, numerous boxes of ammunition for handguns as well as the instruction manual for the Bushmaster used in the shooting.
Investigators found 12 knives, three Samurai swords, a bayonet, eye protection, ear muffs for a gun range, Simmons binoculars, paper targets and Adam Lanza'sLink Removed certificate.
They found journals that Lanza kept, although the warrants do not provide details of what they said. Investigators confiscated Lanza's video games, unidentified medical records and printed email conversations. They discovered books about living with Asperger syndrome, the condition with which Adam Lanza was diagnosed.
Investigators found a gun safe open and with no indication that it had been broken into. In one warrant, there is also a reference to a gun safe in Adam Lanza's bedroom, along with a smashed computer hard drive and gaming console.
Adam Lanza shot and killed his mother at their home before going on his rampage at the school, police have said.
Police found three photographs of a dead person covered in plastic and blood. The warrants do not indicate whether authorities know the identity of the person.
They also found a bank check to Adam Lanza from his mother for "the purchase of a C183 (firearm)," one of the warrants states. Although investigators identified the "C183" as a firearm, it is unclear if any such weapon with that designation is made. Police confiscated a military-style uniform from Adam Lanza's bedroom, a warrant indicates.
Danbury State's Attorney Stephen Sedensky asked Judge John F. Blawie to seal certain information, including the identity of a witness and undisclosed items obtained during the searches, for another 90 days.
Not included in the search warrants released Thursday by Sedensky was material suggesting what the state police or other law enforcement agencies have done to collect information about Lanza's computer use from companies such as those that provided telephone and Internet service to his home.
Information from Internet service providers may prove valuable when the destruction of computer hard drive makes the retrieval of data from computer hard drives difficult or impossible.
Authorities have released little information about the state police investigation, which they've said is not expected to be completed until June. State police have been criticized recently for attending several national police conferences and revealing details of the investigation at those functions.
Sedensky also released a report Thursday indicating that he has ordered state police to stop releasing information.
The biggest leak came two weeks ago when Col. Danny Stebbins attended a conference and told a group of police chiefs that investigators found a 4-foot by 7-foot spreadsheet with a detailed listing of mass murderers, including how many they had killed and what weapons they had used.
There is no reference to the spreadsheet in the search warrants. The only evidence revealed Thursday is that police found one Link Removed article about the mass murder at Northern Illinois University in 2008 where five people were killed and 21 injured when a gunmen opened fire in a school auditorium.
Law enforcement sources have told The Courant that police subsequently also found articles about Norway mass murderer Link Removed, who killed 77 people in 2010. Police theorize that Lanza chose the Sandy Hook Elementary School because it would offer a high target opportunity to kill people quickly.
But sources said that is only as theory and that nothing has been recovered specifically indicating Lanza's motive or intentions. Police did find several journals belonging to Adam Lanza in a closet in the home as well as his drawings. That is also where they found the one report card from the Sandy Hook Elementary School, which Lanza attended as a child.
Sedensky said in his report that police recovered from Lanza's body three, 30-round magazines for the Bushmaster, each containing 30 rounds. They also located in the area of the shootings six additional 30-round magazines containing 0, 0, 0, 10, 11, and 13 live rounds respectively.
Police believe that Lanza was simulating the video games that he loved to play by switching out the ammunition in the Bushmaster as he moved from room to room and before the magazine was empty. It is a characteristic of hard core gamers to constantly switch magazines so that they are never out of ammunition when entering a room.
Lanza blasted his way into the school by shooting out the front glass and then proceeded to two classrooms firing 154 bullets in less than five minutes. He killed himself with one final shot as police were closing in.
Lanza killed 17 people in Lauren Rousseau's classroom, including 15 children, shooting most of them at point blank range as they tried to hide in a bathroom in the back of the classroom. One girl survived by playing dead.
He then backtracked into the classroom of Victoria Soto and killed seven more, including five children. All were shot multiple times.
Six students escaped from Soto's classroom when Lanza's Bushmaster AR-15 apparently jammed during the shooting spree. Police found a round in the chamber of the Bushmaster when they found Lanza's body. The magazine still had 14 rounds in it. Five other children were found hiding in a closet in that room. Lanza's body was found in Soto's room.
State police applied for four search warrants within the first few days of the massacre. On the day of the shootings, police obtained a search warrant for the Civic, where they found a loaded shotgun in the trunk, as well as the home, which they entered after 7:25 p.m., according to court records.
Police also obtained a search warrant for the house on Dec. 15 and another one on Dec. 16, records show. Under state law, police have 14 days to return a search warrant to the court along with an itemized list of what was removed during their search.
Families of the victims were briefed late Wednesday night about what details were going to be released in the search warrants.
Nicole Hockley, the mother of slain first-grader Dylan Hockley, was among family members who were briefed.
"I haven't spent a great deal of time pouring through them," she said. "Everything I learn about the investigation is painful because it reminds me of the pain of that day and that Dylan and the others aren't ever going to come back."
"I'm much more focused on the need for change," said Hockley. "The search warrants contents aren't as important."
Malloy released a statement Thursday saying that the additional details only enhanced what we already knew – that a disturbed individual killed 20 children and 6 educators with a weapon that he should not have had access to.
Malloy also commented on the fact Lanza took only high capacity magazines with him into the school.
"We knew he used 30 round magazines to do it, and that they allowed him to do maximum damage in a very short period of time. And we now know that he left the lower capacity magazines at home,'' Malloy said. "This is exactly why we need to ban high capacity magazines and why we need to tighten our assault weapons ban. I don't know what more we can need to know before we take decisive action to prevent gun violence."
Courant reporters Edmund H. Mahony and Link Removed contributed to this story.
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By DAVE ALTIMARI and JENNY WILSON,[email protected]The Hartford Courant12:17 p.m. EDT, March 28, 2013
Newtown shooter Adam Lanza kept an arsenal of guns, more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition, Samurai swords, a bayonet and knives at his home, search warrants released Thursday indicate.
The warrants show police found the items after searching Lanza's home and car following the Dec. 14 Link Removed, where Lanza killed 20 first graders and six adults.
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Portions of the documents were blacked out, including the name of a witness who told police that Link Removed was Adam's "life." Police found a copy of Adam Lanza's report card from Sandy Hook in the house.
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The warrants state that investigators found at least five guns in the house, including the .22 rifle that he used to kill his mother, Nancy Lanza, before going on his killing spree. They also found thousands of dollars worth of computer equipment and video gaming consoles, and a receipt to a gun range in Weatherford, Okla.
A gun safe, where some weapons were stored, was located in Adam Lanza's bedroom, a warrant indicates. The list of more ammunition filled nearly two pages. Investigators found full boxes of shotgun shells with buckshot, hundreds of rounds for the .22 rifle, numerous boxes of ammunition for handguns as well as the instruction manual for the Bushmaster used in the shooting.
Investigators found 12 knives, three Samurai swords, a bayonet, eye protection, ear muffs for a gun range, Simmons binoculars, paper targets and Adam Lanza'sLink Removed certificate.
They found journals that Lanza kept, although the warrants do not provide details of what they said. Investigators confiscated Lanza's video games, unidentified medical records and printed email conversations. They discovered books about living with Asperger syndrome, the condition with which Adam Lanza was diagnosed.
Investigators found a gun safe open and with no indication that it had been broken into. In one warrant, there is also a reference to a gun safe in Adam Lanza's bedroom, along with a smashed computer hard drive and gaming console.
Adam Lanza shot and killed his mother at their home before going on his rampage at the school, police have said.
Police found three photographs of a dead person covered in plastic and blood. The warrants do not indicate whether authorities know the identity of the person.
They also found a bank check to Adam Lanza from his mother for "the purchase of a C183 (firearm)," one of the warrants states. Although investigators identified the "C183" as a firearm, it is unclear if any such weapon with that designation is made. Police confiscated a military-style uniform from Adam Lanza's bedroom, a warrant indicates.
Danbury State's Attorney Stephen Sedensky asked Judge John F. Blawie to seal certain information, including the identity of a witness and undisclosed items obtained during the searches, for another 90 days.
Not included in the search warrants released Thursday by Sedensky was material suggesting what the state police or other law enforcement agencies have done to collect information about Lanza's computer use from companies such as those that provided telephone and Internet service to his home.
Information from Internet service providers may prove valuable when the destruction of computer hard drive makes the retrieval of data from computer hard drives difficult or impossible.
Authorities have released little information about the state police investigation, which they've said is not expected to be completed until June. State police have been criticized recently for attending several national police conferences and revealing details of the investigation at those functions.
Sedensky also released a report Thursday indicating that he has ordered state police to stop releasing information.
The biggest leak came two weeks ago when Col. Danny Stebbins attended a conference and told a group of police chiefs that investigators found a 4-foot by 7-foot spreadsheet with a detailed listing of mass murderers, including how many they had killed and what weapons they had used.
There is no reference to the spreadsheet in the search warrants. The only evidence revealed Thursday is that police found one Link Removed article about the mass murder at Northern Illinois University in 2008 where five people were killed and 21 injured when a gunmen opened fire in a school auditorium.
Law enforcement sources have told The Courant that police subsequently also found articles about Norway mass murderer Link Removed, who killed 77 people in 2010. Police theorize that Lanza chose the Sandy Hook Elementary School because it would offer a high target opportunity to kill people quickly.
But sources said that is only as theory and that nothing has been recovered specifically indicating Lanza's motive or intentions. Police did find several journals belonging to Adam Lanza in a closet in the home as well as his drawings. That is also where they found the one report card from the Sandy Hook Elementary School, which Lanza attended as a child.
Sedensky said in his report that police recovered from Lanza's body three, 30-round magazines for the Bushmaster, each containing 30 rounds. They also located in the area of the shootings six additional 30-round magazines containing 0, 0, 0, 10, 11, and 13 live rounds respectively.
Police believe that Lanza was simulating the video games that he loved to play by switching out the ammunition in the Bushmaster as he moved from room to room and before the magazine was empty. It is a characteristic of hard core gamers to constantly switch magazines so that they are never out of ammunition when entering a room.
Lanza blasted his way into the school by shooting out the front glass and then proceeded to two classrooms firing 154 bullets in less than five minutes. He killed himself with one final shot as police were closing in.
Lanza killed 17 people in Lauren Rousseau's classroom, including 15 children, shooting most of them at point blank range as they tried to hide in a bathroom in the back of the classroom. One girl survived by playing dead.
He then backtracked into the classroom of Victoria Soto and killed seven more, including five children. All were shot multiple times.
Six students escaped from Soto's classroom when Lanza's Bushmaster AR-15 apparently jammed during the shooting spree. Police found a round in the chamber of the Bushmaster when they found Lanza's body. The magazine still had 14 rounds in it. Five other children were found hiding in a closet in that room. Lanza's body was found in Soto's room.
State police applied for four search warrants within the first few days of the massacre. On the day of the shootings, police obtained a search warrant for the Civic, where they found a loaded shotgun in the trunk, as well as the home, which they entered after 7:25 p.m., according to court records.
Police also obtained a search warrant for the house on Dec. 15 and another one on Dec. 16, records show. Under state law, police have 14 days to return a search warrant to the court along with an itemized list of what was removed during their search.
Families of the victims were briefed late Wednesday night about what details were going to be released in the search warrants.
Nicole Hockley, the mother of slain first-grader Dylan Hockley, was among family members who were briefed.
"I haven't spent a great deal of time pouring through them," she said. "Everything I learn about the investigation is painful because it reminds me of the pain of that day and that Dylan and the others aren't ever going to come back."
"I'm much more focused on the need for change," said Hockley. "The search warrants contents aren't as important."
Malloy released a statement Thursday saying that the additional details only enhanced what we already knew – that a disturbed individual killed 20 children and 6 educators with a weapon that he should not have had access to.
Malloy also commented on the fact Lanza took only high capacity magazines with him into the school.
"We knew he used 30 round magazines to do it, and that they allowed him to do maximum damage in a very short period of time. And we now know that he left the lower capacity magazines at home,'' Malloy said. "This is exactly why we need to ban high capacity magazines and why we need to tighten our assault weapons ban. I don't know what more we can need to know before we take decisive action to prevent gun violence."
Courant reporters Edmund H. Mahony and Link Removed contributed to this story.
Search Warrants Released: Newtown Shooter Lanza Had Arsenal Of Guns, Ammunition, Swords, Knives - CTnow
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