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Investigators: Adam Lanza surrounded by weapons at home; attack took less than 5 minutesNBC's Michael Isikoff shares the newly released details on the investigation of Newtown shooter Adam Lanza and what police found in his home and car.
By Michael Isikoff, Tom Winter and Erin McClam, NBC News
Adam Lanza left a home stuffed with weaponry and carried out the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in a 154-bullet barrage that took less than five minutes, investigators said Thursday in the first detailed account of his surroundings and troubled state of mind.
Search warrants from the second-worst school shooting in American history revealed that the home Lanza shared with his mother in Newtown, Conn., was a veritable arsenal: Authorities found at least nine knives, three Samurai swords, two rifles, 1,600 rounds of ammunition and a 7-foot, wood-handled pole with a blade on one side and a spear on the other.
Authorities also recovered a National Rifle Association certificate, seven of Lanza’s journals, drawings that he made and books from the house, including an NRA guide to the basics of pistol shooting.
The warrants offered a thorough look at the environment in which Lanza lived before he shot his mother, Nancy, to death and drove to Sandy Hook on the morning of Dec. 14. Twenty first-graders and six teachers and staff were killed before Lanza shot himself to death with the 155th bullet.
An FBI report included in the search warrants said that Lanza rarely left home, considered himself a shut-in and was an avid gamer who played “Call of Duty,” a first-person shooter game. Lanza considered the elementary school his “life,” the papers said.
Among other items seized from the home were a holiday card containing a check from his mother to buy a firearm, an article from The New York Times about a 2008 school shooting at Northern Illinois University and three photographs of what appeared to be a dead person covered with plastic and blood.
Full list of Lanza arsenal as detailed in search warrants (http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/28/17501802-guns-knives-ammo-and-gear-adam-lanzas-massive-arsenal?lite)
Other books included “Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s” and “Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Mind of an Autistic Savant.” Authorities also found a starter’s pistol and a BB gun.
At the school, Lanza fired the 154 rounds from a Bushmaster .223-model rifle and the final bullet from a Glock 10mm handgun to take his own life, said Stephen Sedensky, the chief prosecutor investigating the shooting.
Police recovered nine 30-round magazines for the Bushmaster that Lanza took to the school. Three of the magazines had a full 30 rounds still in them.
Among school shootings in the United States, the death toll from Newtown is second only to the 32 people killed at Virginia Tech in 2007.
The attack touched off a nationwide debate about gun control, and Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy used the release of the warrants to call for stricter gun laws.
“We knew that these weapons were legally purchased under our current laws,” Malloy said. “I don’t know what more we can need to know before we take decisive action to prevent gun violence. The time to act is now.”
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On Wednesday, a judge granted a request from prosecutors to withhold some information in the records, including a witness name, credit card information, telephone numbers and serial numbers.
Lanza used a Bushmaster .223-caliber XM15-E2S rifle with a 30-round magazine to shoot the victims at the school, authorities have said.
Authorities also found the Glock 10mm semiautomatic pistol and a Sig-Sauer 9mm semiautomatic pistol in the school, one of which Lanza used to kill himself. In the car outside, police found a shotgun.
All those weapons were legally owned by the mother, authorities have said. Enough public blame and anger has been directed at her that she was left out of many of the memorials and shrines to the Newtown victims.
There have been reports that Lanza was obsessed with other mass killers, including Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in a shooting and bomb attack in Norway two years ago.
A law enforcement official told NBC News last month that Lanza had collected material on previous mass shootings, although the source said there was no indication that it played a role in the school massacre.
Police told NBC News in February that investigators were still a long way from determining Lanza’s motive. Police said then that they hoped to have a report on the shooting finished by June.
Search warrants:
Dec. 14 (first) (http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Sections/NEWS/z-pdf-archive/Search%20Warrant%20Dated%20December%2014,%202012.p df) | Dec. 14 (second) (http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Sections/NEWS/z-pdf-archive/Search%20Warrant%20Dated%20December%2014,%202012%2 0at%20529%20PM.pdf) | Dec. 14 (third) (http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Sections/NEWS/z-pdf-archive/Search%20Warrant%20Dated%20December%2014,%202012%2 0at%20725%20PM.pdf) | Dec. 15 (http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Sections/NEWS/z-pdf-archive/Search%20Warrant%20Dated%20December%2015,%202012%2 0at%20303%20PM.pdf) | Dec. 16 (http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Sections/NEWS/z-pdf-archive/Search%20Warrant%20Dated%20December%2016,%202012%2 0at%20431%20PM.pdf)
This story was originally published on Thu Mar 28, 2013 9:23 AM EDT
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Investigators: Adam Lanza surrounded by weapons at home; attack took less than 5 minutesNBC's Michael Isikoff shares the newly released details on the investigation of Newtown shooter Adam Lanza and what police found in his home and car.
By Michael Isikoff, Tom Winter and Erin McClam, NBC News
Adam Lanza left a home stuffed with weaponry and carried out the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in a 154-bullet barrage that took less than five minutes, investigators said Thursday in the first detailed account of his surroundings and troubled state of mind.
Search warrants from the second-worst school shooting in American history revealed that the home Lanza shared with his mother in Newtown, Conn., was a veritable arsenal: Authorities found at least nine knives, three Samurai swords, two rifles, 1,600 rounds of ammunition and a 7-foot, wood-handled pole with a blade on one side and a spear on the other.
Authorities also recovered a National Rifle Association certificate, seven of Lanza’s journals, drawings that he made and books from the house, including an NRA guide to the basics of pistol shooting.
The warrants offered a thorough look at the environment in which Lanza lived before he shot his mother, Nancy, to death and drove to Sandy Hook on the morning of Dec. 14. Twenty first-graders and six teachers and staff were killed before Lanza shot himself to death with the 155th bullet.
An FBI report included in the search warrants said that Lanza rarely left home, considered himself a shut-in and was an avid gamer who played “Call of Duty,” a first-person shooter game. Lanza considered the elementary school his “life,” the papers said.
Among other items seized from the home were a holiday card containing a check from his mother to buy a firearm, an article from The New York Times about a 2008 school shooting at Northern Illinois University and three photographs of what appeared to be a dead person covered with plastic and blood.
Full list of Lanza arsenal as detailed in search warrants (http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/28/17501802-guns-knives-ammo-and-gear-adam-lanzas-massive-arsenal?lite)
Other books included “Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s” and “Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Mind of an Autistic Savant.” Authorities also found a starter’s pistol and a BB gun.
At the school, Lanza fired the 154 rounds from a Bushmaster .223-model rifle and the final bullet from a Glock 10mm handgun to take his own life, said Stephen Sedensky, the chief prosecutor investigating the shooting.
Police recovered nine 30-round magazines for the Bushmaster that Lanza took to the school. Three of the magazines had a full 30 rounds still in them.
Among school shootings in the United States, the death toll from Newtown is second only to the 32 people killed at Virginia Tech in 2007.
The attack touched off a nationwide debate about gun control, and Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy used the release of the warrants to call for stricter gun laws.
“We knew that these weapons were legally purchased under our current laws,” Malloy said. “I don’t know what more we can need to know before we take decisive action to prevent gun violence. The time to act is now.”
Follow @NBCNewsUS (http://twitter.com/NBCNewsUS)
On Wednesday, a judge granted a request from prosecutors to withhold some information in the records, including a witness name, credit card information, telephone numbers and serial numbers.
Lanza used a Bushmaster .223-caliber XM15-E2S rifle with a 30-round magazine to shoot the victims at the school, authorities have said.
Authorities also found the Glock 10mm semiautomatic pistol and a Sig-Sauer 9mm semiautomatic pistol in the school, one of which Lanza used to kill himself. In the car outside, police found a shotgun.
All those weapons were legally owned by the mother, authorities have said. Enough public blame and anger has been directed at her that she was left out of many of the memorials and shrines to the Newtown victims.
There have been reports that Lanza was obsessed with other mass killers, including Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in a shooting and bomb attack in Norway two years ago.
A law enforcement official told NBC News last month that Lanza had collected material on previous mass shootings, although the source said there was no indication that it played a role in the school massacre.
Police told NBC News in February that investigators were still a long way from determining Lanza’s motive. Police said then that they hoped to have a report on the shooting finished by June.
Search warrants:
Dec. 14 (first) (http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Sections/NEWS/z-pdf-archive/Search%20Warrant%20Dated%20December%2014,%202012.p df) | Dec. 14 (second) (http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Sections/NEWS/z-pdf-archive/Search%20Warrant%20Dated%20December%2014,%202012%2 0at%20529%20PM.pdf) | Dec. 14 (third) (http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Sections/NEWS/z-pdf-archive/Search%20Warrant%20Dated%20December%2014,%202012%2 0at%20725%20PM.pdf) | Dec. 15 (http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Sections/NEWS/z-pdf-archive/Search%20Warrant%20Dated%20December%2015,%202012%2 0at%20303%20PM.pdf) | Dec. 16 (http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Sections/NEWS/z-pdf-archive/Search%20Warrant%20Dated%20December%2016,%202012%2 0at%20431%20PM.pdf)
This story was originally published on Thu Mar 28, 2013 9:23 AM EDT
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