HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) _ A Connecticut agency that investigated the background of the socially isolated, violence-obsessed man who carried out the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School is issuing a report on his mental health and educational history. The Office of Child Advocate investigates all child deaths in the state for lessons on prevention. In the case of the Newtown shooting, it said its report will focus on the gunman, Adam Lanza, and how his “personal, educational, mental health and medical trajectory can inform public health systems.” A portrait of the shooter and his fascination with mass killings has emerged in thousands of pages of police documents: Authorities found violence-lanced writings and an arsenal of weapons in the Newtown home where he lived his mother and spent long hours playing shooter video games. The police investigation into the massacre concluded more than a year ago with prosecutors saying in a summary report that a motive might never be known. It said Lanza was afflicted with mental health problems, but despite his dark interests, he did not display aggressive or threatening tendencies. Lanza killed his mother then shot his way into the Newtown school on Dec. 14, 2012, and gunned […]
↧