“I hope that the release of this report, though painful, will allow those who have been affected by it to continue in their personal process of healing, and will provide helpful information that can be put to use to prevent such tragedies in the future,” wrote DESPP Commissioner Reuben Bradford in a letter accompanying the report. The release of the full police report, according to the state’s Department of Emergency Public Services and Protection, “is indicative that this State Police criminal investigation is concluded.” home they shared and then drove to the nearby elementary school, where he murdered 20 children and six staffers with a Bushmaster rifle before taking his own life. Lanza, 20, killed his mother at the Newtown, Conn. When he identified himself as a police officer, the teacher said, “You’re not the police, I don’t believe you” until a trooper began removing kids from the room. The new report also says that a police officer who attempted to rescue a teacher and children hiding in a bathroom had to convince them he was really there to help.
A summary report released in November said that Lanza had no clear motive, but was obsessed with school shootings - particularly the Columbine massacre of 1999 - and planned both the Sandy Hook rampage and “the taking of his own life.” The report makes no conclusions about a possible motive.
