A report finds Adam Lanza acted alone when he killed his mother and 26 others.
NEWTOWN, Conn. — It remains a mystery and probably always will be.
Investigators say they weren't able to determine what impelled Adam Lanza to kill his mother in her bed, then drive the short distance to Sandy Hook Elementary School and slaughter 26 children and educators last Dec. 14, and finally kill himself.
A summary investigative report released by the state's attorney's office Monday offered chilling details of 20-year-old Lanza's killing rampage, including 10 minutes of terror inside the elementary school he once attended.
But investigators said they couldn't determine a motive or explanation for his actions. They found, however, mysterious clues.
In fifth grade, Adam Lanza wrote a book that included tales of children being slaughtered and a son shooting his mother in the head.
In the years that followed, he was obsessed with mass murders, assembling articles, photos, books, footage and violent video games, including one in which players gun down students in school. He even kept a spreadsheet ranking mass murders.
The report said Lanza acted alone and did not conspire with others to unleash his bloody attack.
State investigators said their review of computer and social media data showed Lanza had a preoccupation with mass shootings, particularly the Columbine High School shootings in Littleton, Colo., in 1999.
He shot his mother in the head as she lay in bed, the morning after returning from an out-of-town trip without her son, the report said. Lanza then left the house and drove his 2010 Honda Civic to the school, where he shot his way through the locked entrance, killed two administrators and wounded two others before entering two classrooms filled with children, firing his semiautomatic rifle with deadly effect.
Killed first was the principal, Dawn Hochsprung, and school psychologist Mary Sherlach in the north hallway, the report said.
After wounding two others, he walked into the classrooms and killed 20 children and four teachers.
The final shot at the school was fired 63 seconds after the first Newtown police officer arrived at the school. About five minutes later, officers entered the building.
The report gives this account of Lanza's spree:
Investigators say they weren't able to determine what impelled Adam Lanza to kill his mother in her bed, then drive the short distance to Sandy Hook Elementary School and slaughter 26 children and educators last Dec. 14, and finally kill himself.
A summary investigative report released by the state's attorney's office Monday offered chilling details of 20-year-old Lanza's killing rampage, including 10 minutes of terror inside the elementary school he once attended.
But investigators said they couldn't determine a motive or explanation for his actions. They found, however, mysterious clues.
In fifth grade, Adam Lanza wrote a book that included tales of children being slaughtered and a son shooting his mother in the head.
In the years that followed, he was obsessed with mass murders, assembling articles, photos, books, footage and violent video games, including one in which players gun down students in school. He even kept a spreadsheet ranking mass murders.
The report said Lanza acted alone and did not conspire with others to unleash his bloody attack.
State investigators said their review of computer and social media data showed Lanza had a preoccupation with mass shootings, particularly the Columbine High School shootings in Littleton, Colo., in 1999.
He shot his mother in the head as she lay in bed, the morning after returning from an out-of-town trip without her son, the report said. Lanza then left the house and drove his 2010 Honda Civic to the school, where he shot his way through the locked entrance, killed two administrators and wounded two others before entering two classrooms filled with children, firing his semiautomatic rifle with deadly effect.
Killed first was the principal, Dawn Hochsprung, and school psychologist Mary Sherlach in the north hallway, the report said.
After wounding two others, he walked into the classrooms and killed 20 children and four teachers.
The final shot at the school was fired 63 seconds after the first Newtown police officer arrived at the school. About five minutes later, officers entered the building.
The report gives this account of Lanza's spree:
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