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Adam Lanza And The Sandy Hook Shooting

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Adam Lanza was the man committing the Sandy Hook shooting. It was the biggest shooting ever in Connecticut. 20 children and six adults were killed. However there was a 27th person, Nancy Lanza, the mother was killed before. Something must have happened in Adam’s life. His family said almost nothing, he wasn’t popular and no imprint was left. There was a huge question… was his mom really innocent. Adam was the younger of two boys. Everybody said Adam was always quiet and kept to himself. In the cub scouts which both kids were in the leader said that Adam would always be mad at anybody who touched him. Nancy was a very protective of her children. When Adam was about five he got an IEP. They eventually moved to Connecticut. About 15 years …show more content…

That didn’t last long and he dropped off, he hated the changed and he changed schools a lot. The divorce happened in 2009 and in 2010, Adam stopped talking to his dad and brother. After that point he worked at a computer shop. Other than that little details were found of his life. Nancy and Adam would still shoot together and than showed him a lot of guns. She bought the ones he used to kill all those kids and herself. They even bonded over their interest over the activity of shooting. She tried to find a college that she was planning to enroll Adam at. He couldn’t handle the change. Adam wanted to be a history major as apposed to a science major. Adam still lived with her at 20 years old. Nancy Lanza volunteered at Sandy Hook Elementary School from 1998 to 2012, including periods when Adam was a student. Lanza wrote The Big Book of Granny, in which the main character has a gun in her cane and shoots people, and another character talks of liking to hurt people, especially children. Adam in school wrote horrible stories of killing too graphic to be shared. Adam Lanza hated his volunteer-teacher mother because he believed she loved her first-grade students more than him. The day before the shooting she had stayed two days at a New Hampshire hotel as part of an experiment in letting her son stay home alone and be independent. She was shot four times in the head by her son the morning after she returned. The rifle used to kill her was found by police next to her bed. Adam then went to the Sandy Hook Elementary school where he shot dead 20 first-graders and six educators with a semi-automatic rifle on December 14, 2012, before shooting

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