“In fewer than 11 minutes, twenty first-grade pupils and six adults had lost their lives” (Sanchez 1). On December 14, 2012 the lives of families across the nation changed forever. Adam Lanza, a twenty year old man suffering with multiple mental illnesses, went on a shooting rampage at the Sandy Hook Elementary School after murdering his mother just minutes before. He had no motive for his unbelievable actions, but took the lives of children who had so many more years to live and memories to make. The Sandy Hook shooting was the second most deadly shooting in the United States, as it scarred innocent people, and still has families across the nation wondering why this horrific event happened. The most kills took place in the kindergarten …show more content…
Investigators say “Lanza may have intended to make it look like a second shooter was involved” (Testa 1). After searching Adam’s car, police found 2 black jackets and extra ammunition in the passenger's seat of the car. Guns and a one black boot were also found outside the door of the open passenger’s seat door. Although no one can confirm that they saw a second shooter, a school worker claimed that he saw someone running out of the school during the shooting. More investigation went into the situation but even after 4 years, nothing has been found. After the shooting, police and investigators found that Adam had an ID of Ryan Lanza, his brother. Ryan was falsely accused of having something to do with the shooting and was arrested. Ryan was released but was pounded with hate comments on social media. Ryan along with the whole Lanza family live with a constant shame and disappointment in their name. Adam might have tried to make it seem as though there was another person involved, but that doesn’t take away that he was the main murderer of this horrific …show more content…
The Sandy Hook shooting was the second most deadly shooting in the U.S and left many families damaged after this unimaginable event took place. The students and teachers that went under the shooting were only focused on surviving through a horrific event and wondering if they would ever see their families again. First graders witnessed their friends in the next room being massacred, and unthinkable image. This event left the nation in a scare, causing everyone to look at gun and going to school a different way. Shooter and murderer Adam Lanza took the lives of many containing 30.47 pounds of ammunition. Although he did not use it all, it was enough to scar innocent students and teachers. The lives of the victims in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting will never be forgotten, and based on President Obama they will always be know as “the angels that were taken too soon” (Sandy Hook Elementary Shooting Leaves 28 Dead, Law Enforcement Sources Say
On the morning of April 10, 2017, just before 10:30am, a school in San Bernardino, California was shot up by a lone gunman. He shot his wife, who was a special education teacher at the elementary school, which killed her. He also shot 2 children, killing one and wounding another. This is the second shooting in San Bernardino in the past 3 years. The first one was back in December 2015, which was a terrorist attack at the Ireland Regional Center, with approximately ;16 deaths.
Adam Lanza was a 20 year old male born on april 22nd, 1992. When on December 14th, 2012 he shot and killed 20 first-graders and 6 adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The years before the killing Adam went to medical experts at Yale University and was called to drastic measures to help him. But according to those calls they went largely unheeded and they went untreated. Adam had multiple psychiatric and physical ailments.
On December 14th, 2012, the second deadliest mass shooting was committed by Adam Lanza at Sandy Hook elementary, Newtown Connecticut. Unfortunately, Adam shot 20 children, six staff members, his mother Nancy Lanza, and finally himself. Adam was 20 years old with multiple mental health illnesses. I will attempt to analyze and identify the personality and behavioral traits of Adam Lanza. While identifying Adam Lanza's personality and behavioral traits, I will determine if Lanza was born or made a criminal.
A month after the shooting, the FBI interviewed another witness. She told the FBI that Lanza told her, “he wanted to kill himself and that it would be on the news… Lanza never threatened to harm anyone and never wrote that he had guns or weapons in his home. His postings revealed he had extensive knowledge of the guns and ammunition that had been used in historical mass murders.” His paranoia seemed to be another reason of this shooting.
The crime Adam Lanza committed was mass murder by means of a school shooting. He shot and killed twenty first graders and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012. He killed them all in the same time period and same location. Prior to the shooting at Sandy Hook, he also shot his mother at her home and in the end, he turned the gun on himself and took his own life (Shultz 2013). The shooting at
In the article by Emma Gonzalez, paragraph four, sentences 1 and three, it declares”The students at this school have been having debates on guns for what feels like our entire lives... Some discussions on the subject even occurred during the shooting, while students were hiding in closets.” In the piece of evidence shown above, it is talking about school shootings and how sometimes they even debate about it while people in schools are hiding somewhere not knowing what is gonna happen, it is also showing that the article is mostly about school shootings. In the article by Bloomberg it talks about how on the 22 of June in 2016, there was a gunman who killed 49 people at an orlando florida bar.
The thought that a human being with a conscious could terrorize a school in killing innocent students and teachers was astounding. Such a tragedy begs the question of why Adam Lanza decided to commit the harshest of crimes. Following Sandy Hook, authorities investigated Lanza’s background and found out he lost touch with reality. The mass murderer cut off communication with all in his life, locking himself in his room, playing brutal video games and researching murderers. While these actions solidified part of his motives, his intentions were and are still unknown.
On December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza fatally shot twenty students and six staff members of Sandy Hook Elementary School (SHES) in Newtown, Connecticut before committing suicide. Lanza’s horrific massacre evoked fear and grief across the United States, but it soon became the subject of controversy and debate. Numerous conspiracy theories of government involvement surround the tragedy as some people began to doubt and question the legitimacy of the mass shooting. Because of the growing distrust in the government in 2012, these conspiracy theories became pervasive in the media through the support of prominent “truthers” such as Alex Jones. Although most of the truthers’ arguments have been disproved, the conspiracy theories of the SHES massacre maintains
On December 14, 2012 a 20 year old 120 pound autistic kid with assburgers syndrome strolled into Sandy Hook elementary school strapped and loaded with over forty pounds of weaponry and murdered 26 people in less than eleven minutes and killed a ratio of 26:1 at a 96 murder percentage rate, only injuring one unknown person by a rickshaw bullet in the foot. Thus making this uncoordinated, barley able to tie his own shoe, autistic, scrawny Adam Lanza the deadliest mass shooter of all time. Some conspersists have a hard time believing all this, I happen to be one of those conscpetist. Looking at this picture posted by the social security death index (SSDI) shows that Adam Lanza died on December 13, 2012, but as I mentioned before the Sandy Hook massacre did not happen until the 14th. Also take a close look at what I believe to be the most important thing, at the bottom of the picture it shows its confirmation, and this was proven to be right.
Nothing is more horrible than mass murders, whether its workplace, school, or any place of public assembly it is a tragedy nonetheless. That’s why the sadistic atrocities that took place on December 14th, 2012 in Sandy Hook Connecticut, where students at the Sandy Hook Elementary school were gunned down by twenty-year-old Adam Lanza who apparently suffered from an obsessive-compulsive behavior. Adam Peter Lanza lived with his mother Nancy just five miles from Sandy Hook Elementary, where he attended school for a short time. He had a brother named Ryan Lanza, who was four years older than Adam. Nancy and her husband Peter, Adam's father, divorced in 2009.
Lanza was 20 years old and had Asperger’s. Asperger’s, a form of autism, is not believed to have played a major role in what caused Lanza to do the shooting a Sandy Hook. Lauren Elder, a clinical psychologist with Autism Speaks says, “Often, their violent acts are self-injurious and spontaneous, the result of frustrated attempts to communicate and not getting their pain or desires heard or addressed.” (Time). Lauren Elder states that in most cases Asperger’s causes one to hurt themselves.
Adam Lanza was the man committing the Sandy Hook shooting. It was the biggest shooting ever in Connecticut. 20 children and six adults were killed. However there was a 27th person, Nancy Lanza, the mother was killed before. Something must have happened in Adam’s life.
The year of 2018 has commenced not to long ago. Everyone made promises, vows, vowed to new beginning, new starts leaving everything negative behind. Forgetting everything from 2017. What has been forgotten ? Problems, enmities, including human beings who have been murdered and till this day have received no justice.
After the tragic and cold-hearted school killings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, Connecticut, 20 children and 6 adult staff members were fatally shot. The number of school shootings within the past few decades has risen dramatically, which is just not acceptable. How can anyone accept the thoughtless cruelty with these young precious lives being treated like they are replaceable?
Many schools in today’s society suffer from shootings at some point while children are attending school. Shootings in schools are not a new occurrence, and America has dealt with multiple shootings in public schools in which the lives of many children and teachers have been undeservingly taken (Elliott 528). Because of school shootings, this leaves our children in danger with no way to protect themselves. Gun violence in schools is an evident problem, and there are several ways to reduce the number of incidents, such as mental health screening for owners of guns, interconnectedness of communities, and more school funding.