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In reply to the discussion: Lots of blame for the Mother. Apparently Dad's off the hook , though, [View all]TorchTheWitch
(11,065 posts)That story was yet another media boo-boo reporting speculation as fact. He was not at the school the day before and did not have an altercation with anyone there.
"Vance {Connecticut State Police Lt. Paul Vance} said it appears that reports of an altercation involving Lanza at the school in the days before the mass slaying are not checking out."
http://abcnews.go.com/US/connecticut-school-shooting-president-obama-meet-victims-families/story?id=17981351&page=2#.UM7XV3q4qSo
There has been not one single report by anyone that knew him that he ever displayed any aggression or violence whatsoever. What was so noticeable about him that everyone that knew him commented on was that he was just the opposite: uncommunicative, shy, withdrawn, fearful, socially awkward and it was typical of him to escape interaction with people even those he knew and trusted.
Richard Novia who until 2008 was the school district's head of security and adviser to the school's technology club, of which Lanza was a member described Lanza to the AP as "a loner."
"You had yourself a very scared young boy, who was very nervous around people," he added.
Novia said Lanza had extreme difficulties relating to fellow students and teachers, as well as a strange bodily condition: "If that boy would've burned himself, he would not have known it or felt it physically."
Lanza would also go through crises that would require his mother to come to school to deal with them. Such episodes might involve "total withdrawal from whatever he was supposed to be doing, be it a class, be it sitting and reading a book," Novia told the AP.
When people approached Lanza in the hallways, he would press himself against the wall or walk in a different direction, clutching his black briefcase "like an 8-year-old who refuses to give up his teddy bear," said Novia, who now lives in Tennessee.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/15/15933406-connecticut-school-shooter-was-very-nervous-around-people?lite