Kijana aua watoto 20 kwa risasi shuleni, Obama amwaga machozi

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 on Friday.

 

Traumatized students were seen being led out of the school crying and holding hands

Adam Lanza shot his mother Nancy, a kindergarten teacher, at the upscale suburban home they shared together and then took three of her guns and drove the Dandy 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 and shot several in a second class before taking his own life.

President Obama openly wept today as he spoke of the mindless shooting of 29 people, including 22 children, at Sandy Hook Elementary school this morning saying, 'Our hearts are broken today'

Witnesses say he Lanza going from room-to-room shooting people after first killing the principal Dawn Hochsprung and psychologist execution-style after they confronted him in the hallway.

Parents who have not been united with their children are assuming the worst. One witness told WCBS: 'Police just told us everyone presumed missing is in the school and they are dead.'

Adam Lanza, 20, shot his teacher mother before driving to her elementary school and shooting 26 people including 20 children

Ryan Lanza is escorted to a car outside his home in Hoboken by law enforcement in connection with an elementary school shooting this morning

 

The families of victims grieve near Sandy Hook Elementary School, where teacher Nancy Lanza's son Adam, 20, opened fire and killed 20 children and six adults.

Adam's brother Ryan, 24, who was originally thought to have been the shooter, is 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. 

He told a friend he believed his mentally disabled brother did it. 

Adam is believed to be autistic.

Another relative told ABC Adam had been 'obviously not well' and Beth Israel, tonight 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 fidgety, and a quiet loner who kept to himself.

She also said he was a highly intelligent student, 'above the rest of us'.
But she said he was never violent.

Baby-faced: Adam Lanza pictured during his secondary school days. His mother taught him how to shoot

She tweeted earlier in the day that he was 'crazy'.

The gunman's father Peter Lanza, who is divorced from his wife, lives in Stamford, Connecticut, and declined to comment this evening 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 community of Newtown gathered to remember the victims who died on Friday at the Sandy Hook Elementary School

The Stamford Connecticut 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.

Daily Mail