The 20 Year Old Who Massacred 26 in Connecticut

Adam Lanza began his killing spree by shooting his mother dead in bed four times.He fired four bullets into her head – possibly as she slept  then took three of her guns to Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, where he killed 20 children and six staff. interestingly she may have played a major part in his catastrophic mental breakdown, it emerged last night.

Friends and family portrayed Adam Lanza’s mother Nancy as a paranoid ‘survivalist’ who believed the world was on the verge of violent, economic collapse.  She is reported to have been struggling to hold herself together and had been stockpiling food, water and guns in the large home she shared with her 20-year-old son in Connecticut. who apparently became obsessed with guns and taught Adam and his older brother, Ryan, how to shoot, even taking them to local ranges.

Face of death:  Adam Lanza

Adam Lanza was described yesterday as a ‘ghost’ – an autistic genius, according to former school fellows, but also a ‘deeply disturbed’ young man who was so withdrawn that even many of his closest relatives hadn’t set eyes on him for years.

It emerged last night that police are trying to repair a computer hard drive which was found shattered on the floor in the killer’s bedroom but which they believe may hold vital clues to his motives.