Adam Lanza 'Nerd' And Honor Student, Connecticut Police Release Names Of Victims In Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

Adam Lanza, 20, killed his mother, Nancy Lanza first at their home on Yogananda Street in Newtown, Connecticut before heading to the Sandy Hook Elementary school where he shot 26 people and himself at the scene. The shooter, an honor student considered to be a genius by his peers never seemed to be a violent type and was considered a "nerd" by his own brother, Ryan Lanza. 

When police arrived at the scene and  barged into the school to find the massacre and Lanza dead from a self inflicted womb. Connecticut State Police spokesman Lt. Paul Vance said,"The shooter is deceased inside the building," he added, "The public is not in danger."

According to Huffington Post, Marsha Lanza, the shooters aunt says that she contacted Lanza's mother on Facebook after finding out about the massacre and never gotten a response back from here. Marsha said that Nancy was good mother who would have made sure her son had gotten help if she knew he was struggling with mentally and needed counseling, "Nancy wasn't one to deny reality," she told The Associated Press.

A parent,  Catherine Urso has a son who knew Lanza and says his style was different, "He just said he was very thin, very remote and was one of the goths," Urso said.

During Lanza's high school days, he attended a  Newtown High School where he was an honor roll student and a member of a technology club called "LAN" (local area network) where members would share games and hook up their computers and play with each other. Gloria Milas son, Joshua Milas was a member of the organization and recalls his brother Ryan attending a meeting to help save  the club saying, "My brother has always been a nerd," Ryan Lanza said, Milas recalls. "He still wears a pocket protector."

Twenty children and six adults were murdered. Here are there names:

Charlotte Bacon, Feb. 22, 2006

Daniel Barden, Sept. 25, 2005

Rachel Davino, July 17, 1983

Olivia Engel, July 18, 2006

Josephine Gay, Dec. 11, 2005

Ana M. Marquez-Greene, April 4, 2006

Dylan Hockley, March 8, 2006

Dawn Hochsprung, June 28, 1965

Madeleine F. Hsu, July 10, 2006

Catherine V. Hubbard, June 8, 2006

Chase Kowalski, Oct. 31, 2005

Jesse Lewis, June 30, 2006

James Mattioli, March 22, 2006

Grace McDonnell, Nov. 4, 2005

Anne Marie Murphy, July 25, 1960

Emilie Parker, May 12, 2006

Jack Pinto, May 6, 2006

Noah Pozner, Nov. 20, 2006

Caroline Previdi, Sept. 7, 2006

Jessica Rekos, May 10, 2006

Avielle Richman, Oct. 17, 2006

Lauren Rousseau, June of 1982

Mary Sherlach, Feb. 11, 1956

Victoria Soto, Nov. 4, 1985

Benjamin Wheeler, Sept. 12, 2006

Allison N. Wyatt, July 3, 2006

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