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Federal law enforcement source: Suspected shooter first killed his mother before driving to Sandy Hook Elementary School
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26 innocent people slaughtered inside an elementary school in Connecticut twenty of them children.
Let's take you right to the scene now are Rick Leventhal is there and has some new information -- -- and I just got off the phone where they.
Federal law enforcement source.
Who has now given me the timeline of events as the feds believe it went down this morning.
Twenty year old Adam Lanza live with -- as a mother here in Newtown Connecticut.
Woke up this morning shot her in the face.
Then got in her car and drove to -- school standing -- elementary where she was a kindergarten teacher.
And shot 26 people in that school before killing himself.
Twenty children were among the dead eighteen at the school to taken to a local hospital where they died at the hospital -- six other adults killed inside that school.
-- the shooter apparently killed himself but again what I've been told is that this kid -- -- twenty years old woke up this morning.
In his mother's home.
Here in Connecticut shot her.
Then got the car went to the school with three weapons -- -- ten millimeter semiautomatic handgun by Sig Sauer handgun and a rifle described as an M four type assault rifle and shot up that school.
Police -- at the school now it's still an active crime scene investigation everything has to be documented and and then the victims' bodies recovered.
There's one adult recovering in the hospital.
Good shooter is dead his father apparently is still alive.
I shouldn't say apparently his father opponents alive his father speaking to the FBI at this hour in New Jersey.
His brother Ryan also alive also cooperating I'm -- with authorities.
Neither person was suspected of having any involvement in this.
The brother Adam described as troubled.
Is the shooter -- confirmed to me by federal authorities -- Yeah and and we should point out earlier it was reported.
Quite -- you know what quite widely that.
Father had been killed but as you're getting out he is very little of that came from.
Right I don't know where that report came from.
There were reports that there was -- active scene in New Jersey that is true there were reports that the father's body was found in New Jersey that is not true.
The father is cooperating with -- authorities is at at last report out talking to the FBI brother also talking to authorities.
-- lands again and identified as the shooter.
Who according to sources killed his mother.
And then went to the school where she worked for no apparent reason.
And slaughtered people inside.
Rick Leventhal again thanks for the information awful as it is thank --
