Tears of a poor Congolose child whose whole life has been rendered hell on earth
US President Barack Obama's tears while speaking about the shooting at Sandy Hook
Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, during a press briefing at
the White House in Washington. Photo: Reuters
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Chaos by design
Connecticut shooting leaves 20 children dead
http://www.theage.com.au/world/connecticut-shooting-leaves-20-children-dead-20121215-2bfw3.html
December 15, 2012
At least 28 people, including up to 20 children between the ages of five and 10, have been killed in a mass shooting at the Sandy Hook primary school in Newtown, a small town in rural Connecticut.The gunman, found dead at the scene, was identified by a US law enforcement official as 20-year-old Adam Lanza, who is suspected of killing his mother Nancy Lanza at home before driving to the school and beginning his rampage.
A Congolose expectant mother being treated of wounds
The families of victims grieve near Sandy Hook Elementary School, where a
gunman opened fire on school children and staff in Newtown,
Connecticut. Photo: Reuters
What does a parent think about coming to a school where there’s a shooting? It’s the most terrifying moment of a parent’s life … you have no idea
Earlier it was reported that the father Peter Lanza was killed at the home but US media reports now say Peter Lanza returned home after police had left the scene and was "horrified" to learn his address was connected to the shooting.
The suspect's brother Ryan Lanza, 24, who was initially mistakenly identified by police as the shooter, was in custody and being questioned by police, according to a law enforcement official. Ryan Lanza's Facebook page was reportedly taken down after he posted on the site that he was not the shooter.
Good Morning, Mr. Obama.
Can I talk to you for a minute? We're just a couple of kids who would like to be kids. The problem is that we live in the Congo, one of the most minerally rich countries in the world. You see, you Americans, Europeans, and Chinese are hungry for our natural resources and we don't have a government that is capable of protecting us from your corporation's efforts to get thos e resources. As they arm and back various groups, we die. We die by the millions. Almost 10 million of our parents, brothers, sisters, and friends have died from violence associated with outsiders quest for access to resources since 1995. We only want peace. We only want to know what it would be like to laugh and play. We only want to know what it would be like to be held and loved by our parents. We ask that you, please, use what ever powers that you have to ask your government and associated business interests to stop supplying weapons. Stop fomenting war. Stop pursuing unfair trade advantages on Africa's resources. Thanx. Dr. Jamil Bey
Children at the Scene of Connecticut shooting being led to safety
Congolese Children flee M23 fire
The total dead, including the mother at home and the gunman, is believed to be 28. There are also reports that the suspect's girlfriend and another friend are missing.
Newtown police received their first 911 call just after 9.30am and learned that a man wearing a bullet-proof vest entered the school about 9.40am – Friday morning in America – and opened fire. The man was found dead at the scene with at least two guns and reportedly a .223-caliber rifle.
According to one television report, a second man was caught by police in an adjoining wood, handcuffed and escorted from the scene.
Connecticut State Police spokesman Lieutenant Paul Vance said 18 children were killed inside Sandy Hook Elementary School and that two more died of their wounds in hospital.
Six adults at the school were killed, including its principal, before the killer was shot - either by his own hand or police.
In prison: their only crime is living in a Mineral rich DR congo
Weeping for American Children but silent on Congolose children
here were very few non-fatal injuries reported, indicating that once targeted, there was rarely any chance of escape, and that the gunman was unusually accurate in his fire.Vance said the majority of killings ''took place in one section of the school, in two rooms".
The toll is the second highest death toll in a US school shooting, after the 2007 campus shootings at Virginia Tech, which left 32 dead.
The number would far exceed the 15
killed in the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, which triggered a fierce but
inconclusive debate about the United
States’ liberal gun control laws.
Congolese children fleeing with their mothers
A US mother fleeing with her children
Wiping away tears, he promised ‘‘meaningful’’ action to stop gun tragedies.
‘‘The majority of those who died today were children, beautiful little kids between the ages of five and ten years old,’’ Obama said.
‘‘They had their entire lives ahead of them, birthdays, graduations, weddings, kids of their own.’’
Obama paused for several seconds, and breathed heavily, several times wiping a tear from the corner of his eye.
Tearful Obama mourns 'beautiful kids'
''I was going back to my classroom and I heard like a person kicking on the door and I turned around I smelled smoke,'' an eight-year-old boy told NBC.
''Then bullets whizzed by and then a teacher pulled me into her room,'' he said, describing ''total panic.''
Other witnesses described an intense fusillade, with perhaps 100 rounds fired, and seeing a corridor splattered with blood.
''I was in the gym at the time ... we heard lots of bangs, and we thought that it was the custodian knocking stuff down. We heard screaming. And so went to the wall, and we sat down,'' a young boy told WCBS television.
School shooting horror ... a young girl cries outside the school. Photo: AP
''Then the police like were knocking on the door, and they're like, we're evacuating people, we're evacuating people. We ran out.
''They're police at every door leading us down this way, this way. Quick, quick, come on. We ran down to the firehouse. There's a man that pinned down to the ground with handcuffs on,'' he said.
Alexis Wasik, a third-grader at the school, said police were checking everybody inside the school before they were escorted to a nearby firehouse, USA Today reported. She said she heard shots and saw her former nursery school teacher being taken out of the building on a stretcher, but didn't know if the woman had been shot.
A boy weeps as he is told what happened Sandy Hook Elementary School. Photo: Reuters
At the firehouse many of the gathered parents ran to embrace their children, others learned that their children were among the dead.
"We had to walk with a partner," said Wasik, 8, told the paper. One child leaving the school said that there was shattered glass everywhere. A police officer ran into the classroom and told them to run outside and keep going until the reach the firehouse, The Hartford Courant reported.
One parent, Richard Wilford said his son described a sound like “pans falling” when gunshots rang out. He said that his son told him that the teacher went to go check, came back in and locked the door and told the students to stand in the corner.
“What does a parent think about coming to a school where there’s a shooting? It’s the most terrifying moment of a parent’s life … you have no idea,” said Wilford.
Police swarmed into the leafy neighbourhood after the shooting, while other schools in the area were put under lock-down, police and local media said.
The Newtown Bee newspaper said a child was carried out of the school with apparently serious injuries.
A photo on the Bee’s website showed officers leading more than a dozen frightened small children across a parking lot. Another image showed officers gathering in the quiet street nearby.
On the Newtown Public School District website, an alert was posted warning that ‘‘afternoon kindergarten is cancelled today’’ and that there would be no lunch-hour bus runs.
‘‘One of the cops, you know, said it was the worse thing he’d seen in his entire career but it was when they told all these parents waiting for children to come out,’’ a local nurse who rushed to the scene told WCBS news.
‘‘They thought that they were, you know, still alive. There’s 20 parents that were just told that their children are dead. It was awful,’’ she said.
Deadly shootings are a frequent occurrence in US public places, often ending only when the gunman is shot or takes his own life.
On Tuesday, a man with a semi-automatic rifle raked an Oregon shopping mall, killing two people, then taking his own life.
In the most notorious recent incident, in July, a 24-year-old, James Holmes, allegedly killed 12 people and wounded 58 others when he opened fire in a midnight screening of the latest Batman movie in Aurora, Colorado.
Last month, gunman Jared Loughner was jailed for life for killing six people in Tucson, Arizona, in January last year in an attack targeting congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head at point-blank range but survived.
However, despite the tragedies, support for tougher gun ownership laws is mixed, with many Americans opposing restrictions on what they consider to be a constitutional right to keep powerful firearms at home.
High school loner to cold-blooded executioner: How 'genius' honor student Adam Lanza became masked killer
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2248197/Adam-Lanza-How-honor-student-goth-killer-massacring-20-children-Sandy-Hook-Elementary.html
- The shooter, Adam Lanza, 20, is confirmed dead
- Peers remember him as a quiet and extremely intelligent student who kept to himself and carried black briefcase to class
- Brother Ryan, 24, an accountant at Ernst and Young, said Adam had personality disorder
- Gunman killed his mother at home they shared in Newtown, then stole her guns and carried out massacre
- Reporters broke the news of the massacre to Adam's father, Peter, who is divorced from the mother and lives in Stamford, Connecticut with new wife
- Moved to tears, President Obama says 'our hearts are broken today'
- Flags around America being flown at half staff
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A troubled 20-year-old loner with a history of autistic behavior is the monster behind a horrific shooting at a Connecticut elementary school that left 26 people, including 20 children, dead on Friday.
Adam Lanza shot his mother, Nancy, at the upscale suburban home they shared together and then took three of her guns and drove to Sandy Hook Elementary School about 9.30am.
He used two semi-automatic pistols, a Glock and Sig Sauer, and reportedly wiped out an entire classroom of young children, then shot several in a second class before taking his own life.
Witnesses say Lanza was going from room to room shooting people, after first killing the principal Dawn Hochsprung and the school psychologist Mary Sherlach execution-style when they confronted him in the hallway.
Parents who had not already been united with their children at the nearby fire station were told to assume the worst. One witness told WCBS: 'Police just told us everyone presumed missing is in the school and they are dead.'
Lanza used to be a mild-mannered student in high school, making the honor roll, and living with his mother, Nancy Lanza, who in turn loved playing dice games and decorating their upscale home for the holidays.
A student in his tenth grade Honors English class recalled he was very quiet, very thin and carried a black briefcase to class, which stuck out when all the other kids carried backpacks.
He dressed more formally than other students, often wearing khaki pants, button-down shirts and at times, a pocket protector. Many recalled that he was highly intelligent.
'Everyone just assumed he was a smart kid and that’s why he didn’t like talking to people all the time,' Peter Lalli, 20, who graduated with Lanza in 2010, told the New York Daily News. 'He hung out with the smart crowd.'
Another former classmate said Adam has been 'a weird kid since we were five years old.'
Tim Dalton wrote on Twitter: 'As horrible as this was, I can't say I am surprised.... Burn in hell, Adam.'
Quoting a 'family insider,' the New York Daily News reported that Adam was a 'deeply disturbed kid' who 'certainly had major issues' and was 'subject to outbursts.'
Lanza's aunt, Marsha Lanza, said her nephew was raised by kind, nurturing parents who would not have hesitated to seek mental help for him if he needed it.
The Crystal Lake, Illinois resident told the Associated Press she was close with Adam Lanza's mother and sent her a Facebook message Friday morning asking how she was doing. Nancy Lanza never responded.
Marsha Lanza described Nancy Lanza as a good mother and kind-hearted. If her son had needed counseling, 'Nancy wasn't one to deny reality,' she said.
Marsha Lanza said her husband saw Adam as recently as June and recalled nothing out of the ordinary about him.
However, another relative to the family said that Adam Lanza was ‘obviously not well,’ adding that he often seemed troubled. They described Nancy as being rigid and at times, overbearing.
His father, Peter Lanza, had divorced Nancy in 2008 because of ‘irreconcilable differences,’ and now lives in Stamford, Connecticut. A reporter for the Stamford Advocate broke the news to him that his son had allegedly shot and killed 26 people, including his ex-wife.
He works as the vice president of taxes for GE Energy Financial Services, and lives with his new wife on a sprawling street glittered with multimillion-dollar homes. The couple apparently married in 2011.
One neighbor told MailOnline that her daughters had visited the house while trick or treating on Halloween, and that an older woman answered the door.
A man several houses down, who said he was friends with the couple, declined to give his name, saying only that they are 'great people' and 'my heart bleeds for them.'
Pia Conte, 47, who lives in the neighborhood and has two sons in their 20s, said Lanza and his girlfriend kept to themselves.
Ms Conte called the ordeal 'sad' for Lanza and his family, and suggested that the violence is a portion of a much larger situation.
'Guns are easy to point to, but it's really a mental health issue.'
Catherine Urso, who was attending a vigil Friday evening in Newtown said her college-age son knew the killer and remembered him for his alternative style.
'He just said he was very thin, very remote and was one of the goths,' she said.
dam Lanza belonged to a technology club at Newtown High School that held 'LAN parties' - short for local area network - in which students would gather at a member's home, hook up their computers into a small network and play games.
Gloria Milas, whose son Joshua was in the club with Lanza, hosted one of the parties once.
She recalled a school meeting in 2008 organized by the gunman's mother to try to save the job of the club's adviser. At the meeting, Milas said, Adam Lanza's brother Ryan said a few words in support of the adviser, who he said had taken his brother under his wing.
'My brother has always been a nerd,' Ryan Lanza said then, according to Milas. 'He still wears a pocket protector.'
Joshua Milas, who graduated from Newtown High School in 2009, said Adam Lanza was generally a happy person but that he hadn't seen him in a few years.
'We would hang out, and he was a good kid. He was smart,' Joshua Milas told the AP. 'He was probably one of the smartest kids I know. He was probably a genius.'
Lanza and his mother, Nancy, lived in a well-to-do part of Newtown, a prosperous community of 27,000 people about 60 miles northeast of New York City. Neighbors said that the mother always took great pride in her Colonial-style house, and always kept her home tidy.
The four-bedroom, three-bathroom house is estimated to be worth around $537,000, and is situated on 2.19 acres of land.
He graduated high school in 2010, but was not pictured in the school yearbook. Rather, a block reading ‘camera shy’ is the entire imprint he left.
A grandmother of the suspect - who is also the mother of Nancy Lanza - was too distraught to speak when reached by phone at her home in Brooksville, Florida.
'I just don't know, and I can't make a comment right now,' Dorothy Hanson, 78, said in a shaky voice as she started to cry. She said she hadn't heard anything official about her daughter and grandsons. She declined to comment further and hung up.
Adam's brother Ryan, 24, who was originally thought to have been the shooter, was being questioned by police after he was arrested at his home in Hoboken, New Jersey.
He was on a bus on his way home from work when he was being named as the gunman and posted on Facebook that it wasn't him.
Ryan Lanza had been extremely cooperative and was not under arrest or in custody by Saturday morning, but investigators were still searching his computers and phone records. He told law enforcement he had not been in touch with his brother since about 2010.
Brett Wilshe, a friend of Ryan Lanza's, said he sent him a Facebook message Friday asking what was going on and if he was OK. According to Wilshe, Lanza's reply was something along the lines of: 'It was my brother. I think my mother is dead. Oh my God.'
Several local news clippings from recent years mention his name among Newtown High School's honor roll students.
A neighbor in Newtown, Rhonda Cullens, said she knew Nancy Lanza from monthly get-togethers the neighborhood women had a few years back for games of bunco, a dice game.
'She was a very nice lady,' Ms Cullens told the AP. 'She was just like all the rest of us in the neighborhood, just a regular person.'
Ms Cullens recalled that Mrs Lanza liked to garden and to make her house look nice for the holidays. Lanza joked, though, that no one noticed because the house was out of view, up a hill, she said.
Sandeep Kapur, who lives two doors down from the Lanza family in Newtown, said he did not know them and was unaware of any disturbances at the Lanza house in the three years that he and his family have been in the neighborhood.
He described the area as a subdivision of well-tended, 15-year-old homes on lots of an acre or more, where many people work at companies like General Electric, Pepsi and IBM. Some are doctors, and his next-door neighbor is a bank CEO, said Kapur, a project manager at an information technology firm.
'The neighborhood's great. We have young kids, and they have lots of friends,' he said. 'If you drive past this neighborhood, it gives you a really warm feeling.'
Beth Israel on Friday tweeted that her daughter went to school with him and he was 'troubled for a long time.'
Alex Israel spoke to CNN about how she went to school with Adam and she described him as a fidgety, quiet loner.
She also said he was a highly intelligent student, 'above the rest of us.'
But she said he was never violent.
She tweeted earlier in the day that he was 'crazy.'
The gunman's father Peter Lanza, declined to comment after police performed a welfare check on him.
Neighbors said he recently remarried.
Mr Lanza learned of the tragic and senseless massacre by reporters who had flocked to his home.
He arrived shortly after police left and asked what the problem was.
The Stamford Advocate said his expression shifted from patient to surprise to horror.
Newtown was once named one of the safest places to live in America and before this morning, there had been one murder in a decade.
The President addressed a stunned nation five hours after the shooting and openly wept as he spoke of the mindless shooting saying: 'Our hearts are broken today.'
Seldom has a head of state expressed greater public emotion in modern times.
Obama struggled for words, pausing several times as he wiped away tears saying, 'This evening, Michelle and I will...hug our children a little tighter, and we'll tell them that we love them.'
Lanza is believed to have shot himself at the scene, according to the New York Times.
He was carrying three weapons including two handguns and a rifle and was wearing a bullet-proof vest, a mask and black military gear.
Three guns were found at the scene - a Glock and a Sig Sauer, both pistols - and a .223-caliber rifle.
The rifle was recovered from the back of a car at the school. The two pistols were recovered from inside the school. They were legally registered to Nancy Lanza.
A number of children were found hiding in closets in the school five hours after the shooting.
One mother told CBS that her child said there were bullets 'whizzing by' him in the hallway and that a teacher pulled him into a classroom. It was said to have been like a 'war zone.'
Speaking inside the St Rose of Lima church in Newtown tonight, Governor of Connecticut Dan Malloy said: 'In the coming days and in the coming weeks, I will pray that you all embrace one another that you lift one another up, that you understand the difficulties that you collectively will undergo.
'Keep in your prayers the children who lost their lives today, keep in your prayers the adults who lost their lives today.'
