''He started crying,'' Nicole said. ''It was the most horrific cry I have ever heard. His little heart was broken," said a mother that broke the news to her eight year old son. On December 14, 2012, Sandy Hook Elementary School experienced a devastating event that will last with them forever. The shooter, Adam Lanza, took many lives away including his. All of the kids had so much life ahead of them... Proms, learning how to drive a car, getting married, having children, and starting a family. Even today the town struggles to return back to "normal" . In the early morning of Newtown, Connecticut, a normal day could be turned into a complete nightmare. Adam Lanza chose to take many innocent lives away and later killed himself. Before coming …show more content…
maybe if he was still alive we could find out why he decided to do this. His father, Peter Lanza quoted ''He would have killed me if he had the chance.'' . Peter was very upset to hear this news that his son did this awful thing, even though he knew that Adam was a very ''odd'' kid, he wasn't expecting this to happen. His father told News Magazine that Adam shot his mother four times... one for Peter, one for his mother, one for his brother Ryan, and one for himself. Adam's mother Nancy Lanza left her bedroom door unlocked while she was sleeping and that's when Adam discovered the A-15 rifle in the house. ''We were so scared something was going to happen to us, we couldn't keep our eyes off of him without being scared. Even going to the bathroom harmed us. '' Peter stated with discomfort. Mental health doctors diagnosed Adam with asperges's disease but they didn't see any violent tendencies in his personality. Peter said that Adam was a great kid in elementary school but once middle school came he changed dramatically. As in grades started plummeting, he became more ''weird'' , and his happiness went down the drain.