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hide captionThis undated photo released on Friday by the Connecticut State Police shows the scene inside Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, Conn.
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This undated photo released on Friday by the Connecticut State Police shows the scene inside Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, Conn.
AP
Connecticut state police have released an exhaustive report on last year's Sandy Hook School shooting in Newtown, offering some new details of massacre that left 20 first-graders and six educators dead.
Photographs taken by investigators of the home shooter 20-year-old Adam Lanza shared with his mother show "numerous rounds of ammunition, gun magazines, shot-up paper targets, gun cases, shooting earplugs and a gun safe with a rifle in it," The Associated Press writes.
Last month, authorities released a summary of the evidence, and at the time, The Two-Way's Bill Chappell wrote an in-depth post, which you can read it here.
In the full report, among other details, The New York Daily News reports:
"The father of Sandy Hook school shooter Adam Lanza sent his son a 'Happy Birthday' card with a hand-written invitation for the future mass murderer to go out shooting."Lanza fatally shot his mother before entering the school armed with a Bushmaster AR-15 rifle, a pistol and ammuntion. At the end of the shooting rampage, he took his own life with the pistol.
The documents released on Friday reveal that teachers could hear janitor Rick Thorn confront Lanza, trying to get him to leave the school.
"One teacher, who was hiding in a closet in the math lab, heard Thorn yell, 'Put the gun down!' An aide said she heard gunfire and Thorn told her to close her door."Thorn emerged from the rampage uninjured.
Earlier this month, authorities released recordings of some of the 911 calls from the scene on Dec. 14, including more than one placed by Thorn.
The report says five teachers who were meeting in a classroom first tried to hide when the shooting began, but later all but one of them escaped to safety through a window.
Lanza "was undoubtedly afflicted with mental health problems; yet despite a fascination with mass shootings and firearms, he displayed no aggressive or threatening tendencies," the report said.
According to the AP, the documents show:
"A male friend of Lanza's mother, Nancy, told investigators she had planned to sell their home in Newtown and move to Washington state or North Carolina, where she hoped Adam could get a job. She planned to buy an RV for Adam Lanza to sleep in. If they went to Washington, Nancy said, there was a special school where she planned to enroll him. In North Carolina, she said, a friend owned a computer firm and had agreed to give Adam a job and teach him the business."
