Report: Fear of being committed caused shooter to snap

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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/12/18/fear-being-committed-may-have-caused-connecticut-madman-to-snap/

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EXCLUSIVE: Fear of being committed may have caused Connecticut gunman to snap By Jana Winter (http://www.foxnews.com/archive/author/jana-winter/index.html)
Published December 18, 2012
FoxNews.com



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Adam Lanza (AP)


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May 27, 2012: Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua Flashman of Stratford, Conn., salutes during a Memorial Day ceremony. (Brian A. Pounds/Hearst CT Media Services (http://www.ctpost.com/news/slideshow/Milford-Memorial-Day-parade-43690.php#photo-2991700))



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NEWTOWN, Conn. – The gunman who slaughtered 20 children and six adults at a Connecticut elementary school may have snapped because his mother was planning to commit him to a psychiatric facility, according to a lifelong resident of the area who was familiar with the killer’s family and several of the victims’ families.
Adam Lanza, 20, targeted Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown after killing his mother early Friday because he believed she loved the school “more than she loved him,” said Joshua Flashman, 25, who grew up not far from where the shooting took place. Flashman, a U.S. Marine, is the son of a pastor at an area church where many of the victims' families worship.
“From what I've been told, Adam was aware of her petitioning the court for conservatorship and (her) plans to have him committed," Flashman told FoxNews.com. "Adam was apparently very upset about this. He thought she just wanted to send him away. From what I understand, he was really, really angry. I think this could have been it, what set him off.”
A senior law enforcement official involved in the investigation confirmed that Lanza's anger at his mother over plans for “his future mental health treatment” is being looked at as a possible motive for the deadly shooting.

"He thought she just wanted to send him away. From what I understand, he was really, really angry."- Joshua Flashman, Newtown resident familiar with Lanza family

Flashman was told Nancy Lanza had begun filing paperwork to get conservatorship over her troubled son, but that could not be confirmed because a court official told FoxNews.com such records are sealed. The move would have been necessary for her to gain the legal right to commit an adult to a hospital or psychiatric facility against his will. A competency hearing had not yet been held.
Adam Lanza attended the Sandy Hook School as a boy, according to Flashman, who said Nancy Lanza had volunteered there for several years. Two law enforcement sources said they believed Nancy Lanza had been volunteering with kindergartners at the school. Most of Lanza's victims were first graders sources believe Nancy Lanza may have worked with last year.
Flashman said Nancy Lanza was also good friends with the school’s principal and psychologist—both of whom were killed in the shooting rampage.
"Adam Lanza believed she cared more for the children than she did for him, and the reason he probably thought this [was the fact that] she was petitioning for conservatorship and wanted to have him committed," Flashman said. "I could understand how he might perceive that—that his mom loved him less than she loved the kids, loved the school. But she did love him. But he was a troubled kid and she probably just couldn’t take care of him by herself anymore."
The Washington Post reported that the distraught mother had considered moving with her son to Washington state, where she had found a school she thought could help him. Either way, according to Flashman, Nancy Lanza was at her wit's end.
A separate neighborhood source also told FoxNews.com that Nancy Lanza had come to the realization she could no longer handle her son alone. She was caring for him full-time, but told friends she needed help. She was planning to have him involuntarily hospitalized, according to the source, who did not know if she had taken formal steps.
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Multiple sources told FoxNews.com Adam Lanza suffered from Asperger’s syndrome, a form of autism, and unspecified mental and emotional problems.
Adam Lanza has also been described by those who knew him as highly intelligent, and a spokesman for Western Connecticut State University told The Associated Press he took college classes there when he was 16, earning a 3.26 grade point average and excelling at a computer course.
Alan Diaz, 20, who was friends with Adam Lanza at Newtown High School, said the Lanza he knew was ill-at-ease socially, but not a monster.
"He was a wicked smart kid," Diaz told FoxNews.com by email. "When I first met him, he wouldn't even look at you when you tried to talk to him. Over the year I knew him, he became used to me and my other friends, he eventually could have full conversations with us.
"I've heard him laugh, he has even comforted me once in a hard time I had," Diaz said. “A big part of me wishes I never dropped contact with him after he left high school, felt like I could have done something."
Flashman said nobody will completely understand why Adam did what he did.
“No one can explain Adam Lanza besides God and Adam Lanza, and I don’t even think Adam Lanza could explain Adam Lanza, to be honest with you.”

[Glass]

Well isn't that at complete odds to the stuff coming from the neighbours. happy family, she never discussed any difficulties she was having with her son (probably because there were none). But now you got people saying, that from what they heard, "all this and that", about the boy. It now just looks like they are projecting the Liza Long story on this woman like some kind of hologram.

[Mouse]

but he is a marine with big muscles. He wouldn't lie.

[Bigjon]

it really doesn't matter who did the shootings, what matters is the remedy.

We need to eliminate these stupid gun free zones and train our people in safe and responsible handling of guns.

Israel found they couldn't put enough armed police in place to stop a terrorist. The only remedy they found was an armed populace and armed teachers.

It's good enough for Israel and Switzerland, it ought to be good enough for us.

[Hypertiger]

Not Fear.

Hate of the positives.

in the absolute capitalist system...positives take more than they give to sustain their positiveness.

those that lose become negatives.

His dad ditched him and his wife because they were negative or losers and he was a winner...

and the only person on Earth that considered him to be a positive was his mother.

and once his mother turned negative when when he became an adult...he went from a positive perspective to a negative...and then it was like he was lied to his whole life.

and the equation then balanced.

he could have just killed himself...but he was so enraged due to his mental condition...he basically went super nova.

If there was a button that would have launched all the nukes on earth at once...he would have pushed it.

Pi is an irrational number...you rathionalize it by cutting it to 3.14.

In autistic people...they are just like so called normal people or absolute capitalists taking more than they give...

byt they don't stop sometimes.

insted of rationalizing they run up to maximum potnetial to demand supply.

when his mother stopped supplying power to the lie she told him...the delusion shattered and then he basically self destructed trying to reacquire what he never had to begin with and what he never will.

Freedom from Truth.

One family unit broke down and annihilated many once the logical conclusion of the take more than you give equation is reached.

A child with a defect is negative reguardless how hard you all try to pretend you are positive people.

The father was too successful to alow the negative to threaten his positive existence.

and thats all that matters.

life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

When the pole shift happened...from the perspective of the shooter...he was only pursuing what all absolute capitalists want...more than they give.

being lied to his whole life basically cause him to play catch up...when balancing the equation.

when an absolute capitalist gets what they want...they feel victorious.

of course the only way that ultimate victory could be obtained...is suicide...so that all those that want justice...get nothing as a reward.

Of course if there was a button next to him when he sought justice...that when pressed killed everyone on Earth.

you would not be reading this....

[Bigjon]

Pretty good hyper, too bad you can't write complete sentences.

[Santa]

Notice how friends and witnesses of the lone GUNman are once again young military personel? Exactly like ALL the previous recent massacres.