Lanza want to top breiviks death toll and targeted nearby Sandy Hook Elementary School because it was the easiest target with the largest cluster of people. Based on evidence they have collected, investigators also believe lanza was acting out the fantasy of a video shooting game as he killed 20 first grade students and six adults. Sources say lanza fired shots at the First Police Officers to respond as they moved through the schools parking lot. Unlike breivik who surrendered lanza killed himself as Police Closed in ending his massacre sooner than he intended apparently. Officials havent relegaled what led them to the motive. Sources say investigators have found evidence landers was obsessed with breivik. Theyve also recovered what they call a trove of violent video games from the basement of lanzas home. Sources say lanza spent countless hours there alone in a private gaming room with the windows blacked out honing his computeer shooting skills. Lanza made multiple visits to nearby g
Those poor people are terribly disfigured. I cant look at them. People have been saying that to these people their whole lives. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. The one remaining mystery in the tragedy in newtown, connecticut, is the question of why. Why did adam lanza, the 20yearold gunman, shoot his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School and murder 20 first graders and six members of the school staff . Well, tonight, multiple sources in Law Enforcement tell us that one motivation was an obsession with a mass murder committed the year before. Bob orr is breaking this story for us tonight. Reporter Law Enforcement sources say adam lanza saw himself as being in direct competition with anders breivik, a norwegian man who killed 77 people in july, 2011. Breivik killed eight with a bombing in downtown oslo, he then moved to a nearby island where he hunted down and fatally shot 69 people, mostly teenagers attending a summer camp