James Holmes Served!

White terrorist got an opportunity to see justice served to him.

The Aurora shooter was found guilty for the murder of 14. James Holmes was served up yesterday evening. The jury believed that despite the defense's attempts to paint him as a psychopath who needs treatment, the criminal act was callous enough for the jury to say he was competent. He had no remorse for the lives he's taken.

On July 20, 2012, at the premiere of The Dark Knight Rises, James Holmes walked into the theater in Aurora, CO, a suburb of Denver. He went in with a gas mask and an arsenal of firearms.

When he threw a tear gas canister into the aisles the people thought it was a joke. The moment the smoke plumed, people were escaping the smoke. Upon escaping, Holmes lit up the place.

Holmes would end up killing 14 innocent lives. Holmes was caught on the property. But as he was caught, he left a set of explosives in his apartment. He wanted neighbors to pound on his apartment door. When they would enter the home, the explosives would go off and kill more victims.

His plan was to throw the law off with the bombing before the shooting.

All mass shootings are regarded as terrorism. There's no need to add a feature to an act of senseless tragedy. I don't care about the shooter's race, gender, sexuality, religion, nationality, political views, or social class. The shooter committed an act of terrorism.

The agitators can pick what the actions inspired this shooter. I am guilty like everyone else when it comes to this. The one who deserves the blame is the shooter. It doesn't matter what politics you follow! The shooter clearly didn't care who was shot.

If you really want to change the ongoing mass shootings in America. You got to force Congress to do something about it. I rather see myself demanding Congress to work on stopping senseless tragedies like this.

Expect the inept Congress to do nothing about gun control and background checks.

A man who was just got married. A woman who reported the news survived a mass shooting in Canada. A man who save the life of his girlfriend. A father who wanted to take his girls to a movie. A man who served in the two wars. These victims were killed by that White terrorist. He didn't care who he killed.

He was served. One on explosive charges (federal), 140 counts of attempted murder (state), 24 counts of capital (state/federal first and second degree murder),

During the U.S. Presidential Elections, President Barack Obama and perennial loser Mitt Romney both express sorrow for the families.

The president called upon the inept Congress to do something about gun control. Romney went around and bitched about how the president was exploiting a tragedy.

Holmes listens to the testimony of victims. Again showing no remorse.

The spineless Democrats who feared losing their chances in the Senate didn't push for reform.

When the president won and the Democrats gained a few more seats, in December, Adam Lanza went into a Connecticut school and lit the place up. He ended up killing 25 people. One was his mother. Lanza's killed little children, their teachers and the principal. The Sandy Hook shooting tragedy is one of the worst event in American history.

Holmes is alive to face his victims he didn't kill and their families of those who were lost.

Holmes will now learn if he lives or dies. The jury now goes into the sentencing phase.

As Holmes got served, Mohammad Yoseff Abdulezze went into two U.S. Armed Forces facilities and lit the place up. He ends up killing four Marines. Three years to the day of Aurora. Abduleeze was gunned down by the police after he was chased. He ended up injuring 10 in this mass shooting.

World News Today send our condolences to those lost in the Aurora tragedy.

The victims:

Jonathan Blunk, age 26,
Alexander J. Boik, age 18
Jesse Childress, age 29
Gordon Cowden, age 51
Jessica Ghawi, age 24
John Larimer, age 27
Matt McQuinn, age 27
Micayla Medek, age 23
Veronica Moser-Sullivan, age 6
Alex Sullivan, age 27
Alexander C. Teves, age 24
Rebecca Wingo, age 31

May you rest in peace.

CO Republican State Lawmaker Plays Chicken With Black People!

Hence an irony: The Republican lawmaker on the left is serving food that makes people obese. 

This week in unlikely bigotry comes from a state senator from the state of Colorado. The state representative was in meeting with her fellow representatives discussing a serious budget issue. The issue soon turned into "I THINK I KNOW WHAT THESE BLACK FOLK ARE EATING" moment.

Vicki Marble is a state legislator for the U.S. State of Colorado. Elected to the Colorado State Senate as a Republican in 2012, Marble represents State Senate District 23, which encompasses parts of Broomfield, Larimer, and Weld Counties; including Broomfield, Erie, Longmont, North Glenn, and Windsor.

She developed barrel racing skills and became a nationally-ranked Pro Rodeo Barrel Racer. During her rodeo career, Marble also raised two young sons. She has managed her own businesses since.

Prior to her legislative career, Marble served on the Larimer Country Rural Land Use Board as well as the 8th Judicial District Performance Commission.

Marble owns and maintains two businesses in the bail bonds industry in the Fort Collins area, and resides there with her two sons.

Vicki Marble, Colorado Senate Republican

Colorado Republican state senator Vicki Marble will tell you that "she has Black friends". She's probably eaten at the local KFC where she see probably seen LaQuinsha or Tyrone feeding their eight children. After all she knows that since she's an aficionado of the Black culture, she a middle aged White woman would say that "we black folk" are embolden to chicken, watermelon, collard greens, and a 40 ounce.

But a clear look at her Facebook page shows not many Black or Hispanic friends in a sea of White faces.

She'll tell you that she supported Herman Cain's failed run for president. And probably show her love for Dr. Benjamin Carson if he should "shucky ducky" into the 2016 race for the White House.

Her first year in the state house and she's acting a damn fool. In other words, she's a rodeo clown investing in the iron college lottery (jail/bail bonds).

This week at an Economic Opportunity Poverty Reduction Task Force meeting at the Colorado State Capitol in Denver chaired by State Sen. John Kefalas, Marble ignited controversy and Democratic criticism when she gave a speech that included extensive comments on the eating habits of various minority groups.

"When you look at life expectancy, there are problems in the black race: sickle-cell anemia is something that comes up, diabetes is something that’s prevalent in the genetic makeup and you just can’t help it,” Marble said. “Although I’ve got to say, I’ve never had better BBQ and better chicken and ate better in my life than when you go down south and you — I love it.”

Further, Marble commented that "Mexicans eat vegetables in Mexico but stop eating healthily when they immigrate to the United States."

Colorado State Senator Rhonda Fields, a Democrat checked Marble on her comments.

Fellow state legislator Rhonda Fields, an African-American and Democrat from Aurora, Colorado was also present wished she could have smack that woman up. But she had to hold restraint because she's a lawmaker and she didn't want to be a focus on Loserville.

“The title for this committee is the Economic Opportunity Poverty Reduction Task Force; and one of the things I will not tolerate is racist and insensitive comments about African Americans, the color of their skin. You mentioned what we eat — I was highly offended by your remarks,” Fields said, addressing Marble directly.

Marble then released a statement clarifying her remarks:

“My comments were not meant to be disparaging to any community,” she said. “I am saddened they were taken in that regard. I take my responsibility seriously and I hope our work on this committee will offer real solutions to the health and financial challenges of our vulnerable populations.”

You're not sadden by the comments. That's probably what you're thinking about Black people when you're trying to issue bail bonds to an innocent individual.

She's really off her marbles! NO PUN INTENDED.

Gunman Arrested After Shootout In Atlanta School!

Michael Hill is the alleged shooter of a suburban Atlanta school. The school was evacuated and no children were hurt but the incident warrants a discussion on school safety. 

Michael Brandon Hill is a 20 year old man entered a suburban Atlanta area elementary school and opened fired on law enforcement officers. The schoolchildren were in their first week of school and this happens.

The police ended the situation peacefully with the arrest of the individual. But this incident rattled the nerves of concerned parents and opened another debate over firearms.

While that White Extremist was slap happy with a story of an Australian man being killed by three Oklahoma teens (two by who were Black), the rest of the news agitators were focused on a DeKalb County school being on lockdown because of a deranged man entering McNair Elementary School in Decatur, Georgia.

The Cox Media Group affiliates WSB and the Atlanta Constitution Journal have covered this controversy.

They've found some disturbing themes to the shooter's motives. Hill was hoping to make the news by "shooting up some cops (and children)".

The shooter was a White man.

The Atlanta Constitution Journal reports that Hill was considered "the quiet and friendly guy" who most people would never expect to harm others.

It's common among loners and the guys who are often rejected by women in relationships.

Michael Brandon Hill remained an enigma Tuesday night to all except possibly the detectives who were interviewing him about why he allegedly entered a DeKalb County school armed with a gun.

There is little in public record about Hill. An Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter dispatched to a house that was searched by law officers investigating the shooting found descriptions of an Everyman, who neighbors described as quiet and polite.

Late Tuesday night, police were still searching the house, which glowed from interior lights throughout and was wrapped in yellow crime scene tape. The house, which sits in a neighborhood of bungalows — some neat, some boarded up and surrounded by weeds — is in walking distance of the Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy, the scene of the crime.

Neighbors described the 20-year-old Hill as a short, stocky teenager who kept to himself and who watched over three children at the house in the wooded neighborhood off East Lilac Street in Decatur.

Hill, along with five other residents, had moved into the house about a year ago. They sometimes threw small get-togethers but rarely made much noise or trouble, said neighbors — who expressed shock that someone so unassuming could allegedly commit such a horrific act.

“I’m surprised,” said Francis Hall, who lives across the street and would occasionally exchange waves with Hill as he took out the trash. “He’s just an average guy.”

Another neighbor who didn’t want to be identified said he suspected Hill was some sort of nanny. He said Hill rarely left the house and was often seen taking care of three children who apparently lived there.

The children would play outside in the pool while Hill looked on. When neighbors requested he pick up trash left by children living at the house, he politely did so, the neighbor said.

To that neighbor and others, Hill didn’t seem disturbed; they saw him as pretty friendly.

WSB TV reports that DeKalb County Police Chief Cedric Alexander said the 20-year-old had fired on officers as they arrived and the officers returned fire.

“When we received the call and we engaged, he started to fire from inside the school at our officers. He had one or two of the staff members inside the main office. He was holding them captive,” Alexander said.

DeKalb County sheriff's deputies and U.S. Marshals arrested the individual without any injuries. The entered inside the school “without incident, without resistance.”

Winne spoke to the arresting deputies.

“When I arrived at the scene I saw the male subject standing outside, shooting a couple of rounds off,” one of deputies said.

Alexander said that officers feared the man had explosives in the car or the building. Alexander also said the alleged gunman had multiple guns, including an AK-47.

No children were harmed in this school shooting.

Alexander told WSB's Ryan Young firefighters cut a hole in a nearby residence so children could evacuate the school grounds through the back of that home.

“We could not bring the children around to the front of the school because we didn’t know if explosives were in the vehicle,” Alexander said. “Now, this deviates from our typical plan, but this was a very unusual situation, where we had to get the kids away from any possible explosives.”

Investigators said Hill will be charged with aggravated assault on a police officer, terroristic threats and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon

One of the women held captive in the school office called Channel 2 Action News to report that there was a shooter in the school. She told a Channel 2 assignment desk editor that the gunman asked her to call WSB-TV and police.

"All the time of doing this I never experienced anything like this," LeCroy said. "It didn't take long to know that this was serious."

The McNair elementary office worker told LeCroy that the gunman wanted Channel 2 Action News to "start filming as police die."

The gunman then told the woman that he wanted "police to back up." Shots could be heard over the call. 

Eventually the woman told LeCroy "they got him."

Parents were asked to go to the Walmart near Gresham Road and Interstate 20 to get their children. 

Hundreds of McNair elementary school parents flooded the parking lot to be reunited with the students, who were bused from the school. Parents were required to have a photo ID to pick up their child.

"When I first heard about the incident I had to rush to leave work, about an hour away to the school to see if everything is all right. When I got here they'd caught the guy and that's a good thing. Man I just heard all the kids are fine. Just good to have your little one back with you," parent Antonio Johnson said.

Parents at Walmart spoke to Channel 2's Lori Geary about their fears for their childrens' safety.

“My daughter called me on the telephone while I was at home and she said ‘Mom, are you listening to the news? There’s something going on at Nadia’s school. And so, she was on her way to Walmart and I came behind her,” Anna, the grandmother told Geary.

Nadia’s mother, Kimberly, said she now fears sending her little girl to school.

“It makes me want to home school my daughter,” Kimberly said.

Channel 2’s Erica Byfield spoke to woman who lives down the street from the school.

The neighbor, who did not want to give her name, said she was in her kitchen when her dog started barking frantically.  After hearing about five shots, she was compelled to run outside and check her surroundings, knowing a school was nearby.

“At first, I heard some little small shots. Then, I heard ‘bang, bang, bang!’ Then, I heard, ‘doom, doom, doom shots, so I knew something was wrong,” she told Byfield.

The neighbor said she hopes the gunman pays for what he’s done.

“I hope they get him and prosecute him for what he’s done, because these are innocent kids,” she said.

Students will have school on Wednesday, but classes will be held at McNair High School. The students will maintain the same bus schedule.

One Year Later, We Remember Aurora!

The faces of victims in the horrible shooting at an Aurora movie theater.

Update: Two survivors are planning on getting married on the day of the American shooting to show that the madman who shot them can't stop their love and they thank those who kept them in their prayers.

Kristin Davis and Eugene Han will marry on the day after the shooting rampage.

Of course we here at Journal de la Reyna wish Mr. and Mrs. Han well wishes on their journey. They deserve happiness in the face of a horrible tragedy.

On Friday July 20, 2012, a madman went into a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. The premiere of DC Comics The Dark Knight Rises was the highly anticipated Summer blockbuster.

The movie was going to generate nearly $1 billion in sales revenue. That Thursday was the night that hundreds of fans would camp out at their local movie theaters to see the premiere.

They had lines of people and tickets for midnight showings were sold out.

That Century 16 in Aurora was the scene of the one of the worst mass shootings in American history.

James Holmes, a young man suffering from chronic schizophrenia and constant rejection plotted and proceeded to carry out an attack on innocent movie goers.

As he entered the movie theater, he wasn't detected by movie ushers. He managed to get into one of the mass showing theaters. Holmes in a nonchalant fashion threw tear gas into the stands and then opened fire upon movie goers. The movie goers thought it was a joke and didn't know it was the real thing until the screaming started.

In this shooting, Holmes managed to kill 14 people and injure over 70 people. Holmes would later try to evade police capture. But it took a few eyes to spot the man as he was preparing to leave the state.

James Holmes the Aurora movie shooter.

Holmes was arrested. He confessed to the crime and also told the police that he booby trapped his home with massive explosives. The jurisdictions of Denver, Aurora and Glendale along with the ATF had to use weapons specialists to disarm all the traps he laid out.

If the traps weren't detected, many others would have died in a massive explosion.

That day I was off and I woke up to seeing ongoing news coverage of this tragedy. I thought to myself that the rise of RIGHT WING EXTREMISM continues in the age of President Barack Obama.

Holmes was charged with capital murder. His trial will begin soon. But it's often delayed because of the tendencies of delusional behavior by Holmes. The therapist who saw Holmes is under fire. Under the HIPPA law she wasn't able to discuss his problems. Despite even a valid threat he would of been if it was carried out, his therapist allowed it to happen.

The name of the victims are to be remembers tomorrow in Aurora.

Jonathan Blunk, age 24 Alexander J. Boik, age 18 Jesse Childress, age 29 Gordon Cowden, age 51 Jessica Ghawi, age 24 John Larimer, age 27

Matt McQuinn, age 27 Micayla Medek, age 23 Veronica Moser-Sullivan, age 6 Alex Sullivan, age 27 Alexander C. Teves, age 24 Rebecca Wingo, age 32

The families of the victims are pleading to Congress to get gun control back on the table.

I knew that since the Tucson shooting, the president didn't act on this. He pushed it aside because he feared the National Rifle Association and the Republicans would push this issue to the White extremists and doom his chances at reelection.

President Barack Obama hugs victims of Aurora shooting in 2012.

President Barack Obama and then Republican nominee perennial candidate Mitt Romney had expressed sorrow and outrage about the situation.

Both offered condolences and sympathy to the families of the victims. They've promise that justice will be done if there were ways to stop gun violence. They're promise to do something was broken.

This tragedy didn't get the ball running on gun control. It was taking a back burner because both presidential candidates were fearful of the NRA. And to make this clear, both wanted to play political posturing during this event.

The left blamed Republicans for lacking the balls to find solutions to reasonable gun control. The right blame Democrats for trying to push legislation that doesn't solve problems, it warrants more firearms on the street.

Eugene Han and Kristin Davis survived the mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado. They plan on getting married this weekend. They join many others in sharing thoughts and prayers to those lost in the Aurora shooting massacre.

Almost six months later, another mass shooting lead by a mentally insane person took the lives of 26 in third worst school shooting in American history.

Earlier this year, the Republicans in the U.S. Senate and a few Democrats blocked the passage of a watered down gun control bill sponsored by two conservative senators.

Senator Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) and Senator Pat Toomey (R-Pennsylvania) both tried a bipartisan bill in which it could have stopped unregistered firearms from ending up in the hands of the next mass murder.

That was blocked by the likes of Senators Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Jim Inhofe (R-Oklahoma), Marco Rubio (R-Florida), Lindsay Graham (R-South Carolina), Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Max Baucus (D-Montana), Mark Pryor (D-Arkansas) and Heidi Heitkamp (D-North Dakota).

Of course if it would have passed, the Republican controlled House of Representatives would have killed the bill and it will be likely a continuous thing for the do-nothing Congress.

Unfortunately this gun control issue will continue to fell on deaf ears. These members of Congress

These morons have allowed more firearm tragedies to occur. Even in the April 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and Christopher Dorner situation, these Republicans and Democrats spit on the grave of all the victims in gun violence.

Too many people lost their lives in these senseless tragedies and this inept Congress is not budging a muscle.

Let's remind them.

INSTEAD OF CALLING IT RIGHT WING EXTREMISM, HOW ABOUT CALLING IT WHITE TERRORISM?

THIS IS AN ISSUE! IT'S INSPIRED BY THE ANGRY RHETORIC OF TALK RADIO, CHANGING DEMOGRAPHICS IN THE US POPULATION IN WHICH BLACKS AND HISPANICS ARE GROWING. 

THIS IS INSPIRED BY ISSUES LIKE LEGISLATION THAT ROLL BACK FIREARMS. 

THE PRESIDENT'S REELECTION ALSO ENRAGED MANY WHITE TERRORISTS ONLINE AND IN THE GENERAL PUBLIC!

THE CONSERVATIVE AGITATORS LIKE RUSH LIMBAUGH, MATT DRUDGE, MICHAEL SAVAGE, SEAN HANNITY, ALEX JONES, BILL O'REILLY AND GLENN BECK ENABLE THIS NONSENSE BY ACTIVELY DRIVING WEDGE ISSUES INTO THE SPOTLIGHT.

THE CULTURE WAR DEBATE OVER ENTITLEMENTS HAVE GIVEN CREDENCE TO EXTREMISTS WHO FOCUS THEIR HATRED OF THOSE THEY DEEM INFERIOR TO THEIR STANDINGS!

IN THEIR MENTALLY DISTURBED MINDS, THE WORLD IS COLLAPSING AND THEY'RE PREPARING FOR THE GREAT "RACE WAR"!

WHITE CONSERVATIVE MALES SEE BLACKS AS CRIMINALS, SINGLE MOTHERS/SINGLE WOMEN/INDEPENDENT WOMEN AS SLUTS, HISPANICS AS ILLEGALS, AND ASIANS AS PILLAGERS OF AMERICAN JOBS!

WHITE CONSERVATIVE MALES ARE OBSESSED WITH FIREARMS, POLITICS, BLAMING EVERYONE ELSE FOR THE COUNTRY'S WOES AND PROBABLY CARRY TENDENCIES TO CHEAT ON THEIR LOVERS (NOTE: SOME CONSERVATIVES ARE BLACK, HISPANIC, ASIAN AND/OR GAY)!

IF WE CAN GET RID OF OURSELVES OF REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS AND EVERY LOCALITY MAYBE THINGS COULD GET DONE!

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA NEEDS YOUR HELP TO GET THINGS DONE!

IF YOU SUPPORT HIM, HELP HIM GET THINGS DONE!

VOTE FOR TRAYVON MARTIN!

VOTE FOR SANDY HOOK!

VOTE FOR AURORA!

VOTE FOR GABRIELLE GIFFORDS!

AND YES, WE NEED A SERIOUS TALK ON RACE, GUNS, AND WOMEN!

Aurora Shooter In Court! [NSFW]

Staring into the abyss.

White terrorist James Holmes is appearing in court and the families of each victim affected by the shooting at an Aurora, Colorado movie theater. The preliminary hearing is a chance for family members to face the killer.

Holmes being held in confinement. His mass shooting and the Sandy Hook shooting sparked national debate on firearms and gun control.

President Barack Obama ordered a review on how to tackle gun control. He asked Vice President Joe Biden to gather up supporters of gun rights and gun control to figure out a winnable solution.

Jon Blunk was gunned down in July after he and his wife attended the Batman: The Dark Knight Rises movie.

This week alone, we've seen the unhinged continue their path to insanity. This week, conspiracy kook Alex Jones didn't help his case for gun rights. He practically embarrassed himself on CNN last night. Wayne LaPierre and Larry Pratt, are proven to be WHITE EXTREMISTS by their flagrant attacks on the president and Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California). Feinstein, was a survivor of a mass shooting that killed Harvey Milk, a gay councilman who championed equal rights in San Francisco. The NRA and Gun Owner's Association are working overtime to rile up White extremist into believing the president is coming for their guns.

The Denver Post details what's going on in Aurora. The boombox would blare the music. Holmes was trying to booby trap his apartment for another massive attack on police if they should find him.

The music would draw the attention. The attention would jostle the door. The door would tug the fishing line.

The line would topple the thermos full of glycerin, and the glycerin would mix in the frying pan with the potassium permanganate to create a flame.

The flame would set the petroleum-soaked carpet on fire. The fire would light the fuses. The fuses would detonate the jars filled with homemade thermite, smokeless powder and stove-top napalm mixed with bullets. The white ammonium chloride sprinkled across the floor by the front door, that was just to scare the police.

And that, Federal Bureau of Investigation agent Garrett Gumbinner testified Tuesday in the second day of the Aurora theater shooting preliminary hearing, was one of two active explosive systems investigators found inside suspect James Holmes' apartment.

There was one more, Gumbinner said, that involved 6-inch fireworks shells, a commercial pyrotechnic firing box atop the refrigerator, another boombox, a toy car and a remote control placed by a Dumpster.

"The whole apartment would have either exploded or caught fire," Gumbinner said.

It didn't, but only because neighbors who heard the loud music just after midnight on July 20 didn't bother to bang on the door.

Gumbinner was one of two detectives who interviewed Holmes the afternoon following the early-morning shooting, hoping to gain insight into how to safely defuse the explosive tangle they say he created.

"He said he rigged his apartment to explode and catch fire," Gumbinner said. "He said he was hoping to send resources to his apartment rather than the theater. By resources I mean law enforcement."

Prosecutors honed their attention Tuesday on the devilish, meticulous plotting they say was behind the July 20 attack that killed 12 and wounded at least 58 others.

President Barack Obama meets with shooting victims in 2012 during the tragedy in Aurora, Colorado.

In addition to Gumbinner, an Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent detailed the 16 separate purchases Holmes is accused of making to acquire the four guns; 6,295 rounds of rifle, shotgun and handgun ammunition; dozens of gun magazines; ballistic gear; weapon slings; two laser sights; two tear-gas canisters; hundreds of practice targets; explosive chemicals; fireworks supplies; handcuffs; and a military first aid dressing.

ATF agent Steven Beggs said the purchases — all from online retailers or the Gander Mountain and Bass Pro Shops sporting goods stores in the metro area — began on May 10 and ended July 14. There were five purchases, alone, in the first week of July.

An Aurora detective also testified about two online dating profiles Holmes placed on the websites Match.com and Adult Friend Finder. Det. Tom Welton said in both, Holmes asked the same question: "Will you visit me in prison?"

James Holmes official mugshot from Arapahoe County.

But, as prosecutors sought to establish premeditation in the attack, Holmes' attorneys also revealed more of their strategy.

After prosecutors finished questioning Beggs, defense attorney Tamara Brady asked him whether it was illegal, for instance, to buy body armor or tear gas. Beggs said it wasn't in Colorado.

"Is there any process in place in Colorado," Brady persisted, "to screen out whether a severely mentally ill person is purchasing these items?"

Beggs said no.

In afternoon testimony, Aurora homicide Det. Craig Appel testified that police did not request a blood sample from Holmes after he was arrested. He said Holmes' pupils were wide, but that "I saw now indication that he was under the influence of anything."

But under defense questioning, he said Holmes' behavior was at times odd while he was under observation.

Paper bags had been placed over his hands to preserve evidence and Holmes played with them as though they were puppets, Appel said. He also tried to place a staple into an electrical socket, he said.

Appel also testified that investigators collected six shotgun hulls, 204 live .223 shells and 65 .223 casings from the theater. Most of the casing were found near the door to Theater 9. The .223 ammunition is what is typically used in an AR-15 type weapon. Appel said some of the bullets went through the wall of auditorium and struck people in Theater 8.

Appel also said iPhone evidence shows Holmes purchased his ticket to the midnight showing of "A Dark Knight Rises" through Fandango. The ticket was issued for Theater 8, however patrons are allowed to move between theaters, so someone who purchased a ticket for Theater 8 could watch the movie in Theater 9, he said.

In earlier testimony Tuesday, 911 calls from inside Theater 9 were played in the courtroom.

A weeping 13-year-old girl can be heard with the chaos of the theater behind her.

"My two cousins, they're sitting on the floor ... one of them" is not breathing, the girl told the dispatcher.

The Century 16 reopens despite controversy. Many complain that it's just too soon to continue business as usual. 

The teen's cousins were 6-year-old Veronica Moser-Sullivan and Veronica's mother, Ashley Moser.

The girl tells the 911 dispatcher who was trying to give CPR instructions, "I can't hear ... it's too loud ... I can't hear you. I'm so sorry."

Veronica was one of those who died. Moser was partially paralyzed.

The first 911 call came from Kevin Quinonez at 12:38 a.m., about 18 minutes after the movie "The Dark Knight Rises" started.

In the 27-second call, Aurora Police Det. Randy Hansen said he counted 30 booms, which were gunfire.

Quinonez' voice is frequently drowned out by the sound of the shots, but he can be heard saying, "There's some guy ... after us."

Lives were lost on July 20, 2012. The Aurora movie shooting was one of worst shooting in the nation's history.

Within a 10-minute period, dispatchers received 41 calls from the theater.

Some victims and family members had seats in the courtroom Tuesday and listened to the tapes as they were played. One woman covered her face with a handkerchief.

Beggs said that on June 17 Holmes bought shooting targets.

The new district attorney for the 18th Judicial District, George Brauchler, was among those in the courtroom Tuesday. He was sworn in Monday.

During the first day of testimony Monday, Aurora police officers who arrived at the theater early July 20 testified about apprehending Holmes and helping victims.

Rita Paulina, 45, whose arm was shattered in the attack, and her husband, Anggiat Situmeang, who carried her from the theater, went to the hearing Monday but refused to go into the courtroom, instead watching on a television feed set up for victims and families in another room.

The stories they heard triggered painful memories and stirred their emotions, said Situmeang, 47. As police recounted the scene they found at the theater, Situmeang recalled, "my tears were coming out."

When Paulina saw Holmes she grew frightened that he would leap up and commit mayhem in the court itself. "Our minds go back to six months ago," Situmeang said.

Sam Soudani, father of 23-year-old victim Farrah Soudani, said Monday that his daughter attended with several friends and co-workers from Red Robin.

Farrah Soudani was hit by an explosive device in the theater, her father said. She lost her spleen and a kidney and had a big gash in her side

"I'm the father. I'm here to hold her hand. Personally, I don't want to be here."

"She had a really hard time looking at him," he said of Holmes. "He has no emotion. He's like a robot."

Prosecutors hope to show there is enough evidence against Holmes for him to stand trial on 166 counts of murder, attempted murder and other crimes for the shootings at the Century Aurora 16 movie theater that left 12 dead and at least 58 injured.

John Ingold: 303-954-1068, jingold@denverpost.com or twitter.com/john_ingold

Jessica Fender: 303-954-1244, jfender@denverpost.com or twitter.com/Oh_Fender
Denver Post staff writers Electa Draper and Tom McGhee contributed to this report.

Gunman Kills NY Firefighters And Sister!

WHITE EXTREMISM/WHITE TERRORIST AND FIREARMS!

Ever since the reelection, conservatives and extremists were buying up firearms in bulk. The National Rifle Association weekend talk show blitz was a disaster. They continue to blame entertainment and President Barack Obama for the Sandy Hook shooting. The conservative agitating media continues to poke the bee's nest of violence. First The Drudge Report, Breitbart, Fox Nation and The Blaze post up controversial stories that paint Blacks and Hispanics as the enemy. The readers look at these stories and begin tossing a word salad. They're sending more threatening and offensive statements online. Some comments appear to show racism at its finest.

The Republicans are atone to their concerns and are continuing this ongoing gridlock with the nation's debt ceiling and are stubbornly taking us the fiscal cliff. The sequester possibility is decreased to at least 43% in likely passing. The possibility was 57% at the time.

The newest tragedy starts Webster, New York. The people of the small town are mourning this holiday! A gunman who had no business holding onto a firearm started a massive fire and then launched an assault on firefighters.

Two firefighters were killed. We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to those who were lost in this senseless tragedy. The Telegraph reports this tragedy. The Associated Press and Rochester Democrat also provide all the information to this story.

William Spengler, 62, armed himself with three weapons, including a Bushmaster assault rifle - the same type of weapon used by Sandy Hook Elementary shooter Adam Lanza - and set his house afire to lure first responders into a death trap.

Two firefighters were shot dead and two others are hospitalized. Spengler killed himself as seven houses burned around him Monday.

On Tuesday, it was revealed that a body - believed to be his sister Cheryl Spengler - was found in the charred rubble of his home.

Tomasz Kaczowka was killed in ambush.

Cheryl, 67, lived with William at the home he burned down early Monday in Webster, New York.

A family friend of William Spengler says he 'couldn't stand' his sister and said the two had a difficult relationship.

Police have not confirmed for certain that the charred remains are Cheryl's, but it is believed she died in the house.

Police are investigating whether a fight with her sparked the shocking violence - which took place just ten days after the elementary school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut.

William Spengler has a history of brutality against his family. In July 1980, he beat his 92-year-old grandmother Rose Spengler to death with a hammer. He served 17 years in prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter. He was released in 1998.

Authorities believe he used an assault rifle to kill Webster police Lieutenant Mike Chiapperini, 42, and Tomasz Kaczowka, 19, a rookie 911 dispatcher who was best friends with Lt. Chiapperini's son.

Spengler, who shot himself dead after a brief firefight with police, is a convicted felon and cannot legally own a gun in New York.

However, somehow, he was able to obtain an assault rifle - the same type of weapon that was used to murder 20 first graders and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14. Police say Spengler also had a handgun.

Roger Vercruysse, who claims Spengler was a good friend when they lived next door in Webster, a Rochester suburb, said Spengler 'couldn't stand' his sister, Cheryl Spengler. Police were unable to locate her since the home she shared with William Spengler was burned down.

Mr. Vercruysse said Spengler 'loved his mama to death.' Arline Spengler died in October, and Mr. Vercruysse wonders what effect that had on her 62-year-old son. He says he thinks William Spengler 'went crazy' after she died.

Police say they don't have a motive for the killings on the shore of Lake Ontario.

However, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reports that detectives believe a fight between William Spengler and his sister Cheryl, whom he lived with, could have sparked the horrific violence.

The victims, Lt. Chiapperini and Kaczowka, were public servants who bravely volunteered to be firefighters in their off-hours.

Lt. Chiapperini was a community leader who was heavily involved as a volunteer firefighter and had held nearly every post at the fire house. He even trained Mr. Kaczowka, who spent three years of high school training in the department's Explorer program.

In addition, two full time fire men, Joseph Hofsetter and Theodore Scardino were shot and wounded by the gunman and are currently in nearby Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, along with John Ritter, an off duty police officer who was hit by shrapnel from the volley of bullets.

 Lieutenant Mike Chiapperini was killed in ambush.

Mr. Hofsetter, who is also a full-time firefighter with the Rochester Fire Department, was hit once in the pelvis and the bullet lodged in his spine, authorities said. Mr. Scardino was hit in the chest and knee.

All three men are in a guarded condition according to West Webster fire Chief Gerald Pickering, who confirmed that there was only one gunman and that it appears the fire was started as a trap.

'It does appear it was a trap set for first responders,' said a visibly emotional Pickering at a press conference this morning.

'These people wake up in the middle of the night to fight fires, they don't expect to get shot.'

Monday's shooting and fires were in a neighborhood of seasonal and year-round homes set close together across the road from the lakeshore. The area is popular with recreational boaters but is normally quiet this time of year.

'We have very few calls for service in that location,' Pickering said. 'Webster is a tremendous community. We are a safe community, and to have a tragedy befall us like this is just horrendous.'

O'Flynn lamented the violence, which comes on the heels of other shootings including the massacre of 20 students and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

'It's sad to see that that this is becoming more commonplace in communities across the nation,' O'Flynn said.

Webster, a middle-class suburb, now is the scene of violence linked to house fires for two Decembers in a row.

The Bushmaster AR 15 flying off the shelves of gun stores in the United States.

In the aftermath of the burning fire, 33 residents were evacuated from the picturesque lakeside community as fire chief's allowed the fire to burn unchecked destroying four homes and damaging 4 others.

'All of our thoughts and prayers go to the families and friends of those who were killed in this senseless act of violence,' New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said in a statement.

Joseph Hofsetter was shot and injured.

'The contributions made by the fallen and injured officers in Webster will never be forgotten,' said New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

'As this investigation unfolds, we stand with our partners in law enforcement to ensure that lethal weapons are out of the hands of dangerous people, so that the brave New Yorkers who risk their lives every day to protect us are not exposed to additional danger,' he added.

'There's a heightened awareness to this kind of violence in light of what happened in Connecticut,' said Maggie Brooks, leader of the local administration in Monroe County, the area which includes Webster.

'We have first responders and we have families who are in pain and crisis today and we need to, as a community, keep them in our thoughts and prayers,' Mrs Brooks said, adding that it was a 'very, very difficult day.'

One neighbor who was walking her dog at the time of the shooing said that she saw a car driving away from the scene at around 90 miles an hour.

She said the car was being driven erratically by a male driver and it is believed that the occupant was fleeing the incident

The shooter William Spangler wanted to kill as many people as he could.

'It's just a miserable thing to happen this time of year, any time,' Assemblyman Mark Johns, who represents the district and said he was friends with at least one of the victims, told WHEC.

'People who volunteer to come down and help others, to be shot at, wounded, killed. It's terrible.'

Of course these senseless tragedies happen in the suburbs. They managed to make the national news. Everyday a shooting happens and some make the 5pm news or the national news.

In Pennsylvania, a gunman last week killed four people before killing himself.

Yeah, The NRA Took A Self Inflicted Bullet In The Head!

David Keene and Wayne LaPierre may have inflicted more harm!

Republicans and their conservative agitators rush to the defense of the gun organization. Wayne LaPierre and David Keene go onto the television to defend themselves from harsh criticism by gun control advocates.

“If it’s crazy to call for putting police in and securing our schools to protect our children, then call me crazy,” LaPierre told NBC’s David Gregory. “I think the American people think it’s crazy not to do it. It’s the one thing that would keep people safe and the NRA is going try to do that.”

President Barack Obama has tasked Vice President Joe Biden with the job of consulting with members of the Cabinet and outside organizations to come up with legislative proposals by next month.

When asked about this initiative, LaPierre said, “if it’s a panel that’s just going to be made up of a bunch of people that for the past 20 years has been trying to destroy the Second Amendment, I’m not interested in sitting on that panel…. The NRA is not going to let people lose the Second Amendment in this country.”

While they were shooting off their mouths, two New York firefighters were killed.

A petition was posted by extremists on the White House website. They're petitioning for deportation of British entertainer Piers Morgan. The CNN anchor and Britain/America's Got Talent host was the scorn of gun nuts because of his harsh criticism of the NRA.

David Gregory and President Barack Obama were scorned by conservative agitators for having protection for their children. The NRA was criticizing the president for having armed protection!

The NRA only solution to the problems of the world, get more guns! MORE GUNS FOR THE WHITE GUY AND NO GUNS FOR THE BLACKS, HISPANICS, AND MUSLIMS!

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Texas Congressman: Give 'Em Teachers Guns!

Texas Hold 'Em And Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-Texas)

The Republican congressman from Texas, Louie Gohmert has once again made the news. His comments spark feverish concern after the Sandy Hook shooting. He joins numerous other conservative agitators in the media saying that this tragedy would not have happen if the teachers and principal were armed!

The Gun Owners Association's president Larry Pratt goes on The Bill Cunningham Radio Show to show his disgust of the shooter but yet he blasted the president and gun control advocates for condemning the firearms not the individual.

Mike Huckabee, the former 2008 presidential candidate and conservative agitator outdid himself. He stated that if we had [Christian values] back in the public school, this tragedy would have been adverted.

The National Rifle Association is under heavy criticism for this. Because of their influence on many lawmakers, gun rights have never been so relaxed. The firearm sales are up. The registration of concealed carry licences are reaching all-time highs. The NRA have been silent on the controversy and it's best not to jump into the fray yet!

Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California) has stated that she and a few members of the senate will introduce legislation that may limit the purchasing of assault weapons. Once again putting the Democrats in the fire of conservative rancor and the gun industry.

David Gregory of NBC's Meet The Press tried to contact members of Congress who are supporters of gun rights, but none responded to the request to be interviewed on the Sunday news program.

The only supporter of looser restrictions of firearms who appeared on television was that ignorant Texas Republican congressman appearing on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace.

Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) made the case Sunday that the answer to preventing massacres in the U.S. is for more Americans to carry guns.

"There has been great investigation and study into this," Gohmert told Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, arguing that mass killings happen where citizens tend to be unarmed. "They choose this place [because] they know no one will be armed."

Mike Huckabee says some stupid stuff this weekend.

Gohmert argued that the mass slaughter would have gone differently if Sandy Hook principal Dawn Hochsprung had been armed.

"Chris, I wish to God she had had an m-4 in her office, locked up so when she heard gunfire, she pulls it out ... and takes him out and takes his head off before he can kill those precious kids," Gohmert said.

The mass murder in Connecticut has renewed the national discussion about gun control, with Democrats in particular calling for a new assault weapons ban.

So far, Gohmert appears to be one of the few pro-gun rights conservatives in Congress willing to make the public case for more guns in the wake of the Connecticut shooting.

Gohmert argued Sunday that tighter gun controls such as assault weapon bans are not the answer.

"Once you start drawing the line, where do you stop?" Gohmert said. "That's why it is important to not just look at this emotionally."

Let me repeat this for the public to read!

INSTEAD OF CALLING IT RIGHT WING EXTREMISM! HOW ABOUT CALLING IT WHITE TERRORISM?

THIS IS AN ISSUE! 

IT'S INSPIRED BY THE ANGRY RHETORIC OF TALK RADIO. THE ONLINE RAMBLINGS ABOUT A CHANGING DEMOGRAPHICS IN THE US POPULATION IN WHICH BLACKS AND HISPANICS ARE GROWING. THIS IS INSPIRED BY LAWMAKERS WHO RELAX RULES TO ALLOW PEOPLE TO OBTAIN FIREARMS EASIER! IT'S INSPIRED BY LAWMAKERS WHO PUSH LEGISLATION THAT ROLL BACK FIREARMS. WITH THE PRESIDENT EASILY WINNING REELECTION, THE ENRAGED MAY LOOK AT THIS AS THE END OF THE WORLD. THESE WHITE TERRORISTS ONLINE AND IN THE GENERAL PUBLIC WILL REACT TO THESE ISSUES WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF VIOLENCE!

THIS ISSUE WILL ONCE AGAIN BE THROWN UNDER THE TABLE BECAUSE REPUBLICANS, THE NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION AND THE WHITE CONSERVATIVE MALE ARE THREATEN BY THE NOTION OF THEIR KIND BEING ASSOCIATED TO THE RISE IN DOMESTIC TERRORISM ACROSS THE COUNTRY.

WHITE CONSERVATIVE MALES SEE BLACKS AS CRIMINALS, SINGLE MOTHERS/SINGLE WOMEN/INDEPENDENT WOMEN AS SLUTS, HISPANICS AS ILLEGALS, MUSLIMS AS EVIL, JEWS AND ASIANS AS PILLAGERS OF AMERICAN JOBS!

WHITE CONSERVATIVE MALES ARE OBSESSED WITH FIREARMS, POLITICS, ONLINE RANTING, BLAMING EVERYONE ELSE FOR THE COUNTRY'S WOES, HARBOR VIEWS THAT MAY BE CONSIDERED RACIST, STEREOTYPING AMERICANS WITH CONDESCENDING RHETORIC AND PROBABLY CARRY TENDENCIES TO CHEAT ON THEIR LOVERS!

GUN CONTROL ISN'T ABOUT TAKING YOUR GUNS!  

IT'S ABOUT KEEPING THEM OUT OF THE HANDS OF STREET GANGS, DRUG CARTELS, PEOPLE INVOLVED IN SEX TRAFFICKING, TERRORISTS, VIOLENT CRIMINALS, ANIMAL POACHERS, PEOPLE WHO HAVE MENTAL ISSUES OR ABUSIVE FAMILY MEMBERS! 

WILL IT TAKE THE SHOOTING OF A GUN RIGHTS SUPPORTING REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT WHO STANDS FIRM TO BE SHOT BY A PERSON WITH MENTAL ISSUES OR EXTREME POLITICAL VIEWS? 

WHO WILL BE THE NEXT GABRIELLE GIFFORDS?

WHY DO SPORTS FIGURES, MOVIES, TV SHOWS, CELEBRITIES, HIP HOP MUSIC, VIDEO GAMES COMPANIES, ROCK MUSIC, TALK RADIO AND CONSERVATIVE AGITATORS RELISH IN THE GUN CULTURE?

HOW MANY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS WILL BE KILLED BY ASSAULT WEAPONS?

HOW MANY INNOCENT VICTIMS AND UNARMED CRIMINALS BE KILLED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT BY FIREARMS?

HOW MANY INNOCENT PEOPLE ARE TO BE SHOT FOR DOING THEIR JOBS AS PUBLIC SERVANTS, RETAIL CLERKS, FEDERAL WORKERS, AND THOSE WHO REPORT THE NEWS?

WHY DO WE CONTINUE TO BE BULLIES TO THOSE WHO MAY EVENTUALLY TAKE REVENGE ON ALL OF US AT THE BARREL OF A GUN?

WILL IT TAKE A MEMBER OF THE NRA OR GUN OWNER'S ASSOCIATION TO GET SHOT BY A PERSON WHO MENTAL ISSUES AND HAD NO BUSINESS OPERATING A GUN?

WILL IT TAKE YOUR FAMILY MEMBER TO GET A HOLD OF A GUN AND ACCIDENTLY SHOOT THEMSELVES?

HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE FOR YOUR STUBBORN VIEWS TO CHANGE ON FIREARMS?

WILL YOU CONTINUE TO ALLOW MILITARY STYLE WEAPONS TO BE IN THE HOME OF THE NEXT DOMESTIC TERRORIST?

WHEN WILL THE MEDIA EVER SAY THIS IS A WHITE TERRORIST? THE MEDIA CLEARLY CLAIMING THAT BLACKS AND HISPANICS ARE THUGS! MUSLIMS ARE TERRORISTS!

IT IS GUN RIGHTS FOR WHITE MALES! GUN CONTROL FOR BLACKS, HISPANICS AND MUSLIMS?

THE TIME IS NOW TO GET GUN CONTROL ON THE TABLE! 

I AM AN OWNER OF A FIREARM. 

I'M NOT ASHAMED TO SAY THIS! WE NEED TO LOOK AT THE ISSUE WITH FIREARMS AND THE RISE OF EXTREMISM CAUSED BY HOSTILE POLITICS! 

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA AND THE REPUBLICANS BETTER GET THEIR HEADS OUT THEIR ASSES! 

THIS SANDY HOOK SHOOTING REPRESENTS THE ONGOING PROBLEMS IN THE UNITED STATES! MASS SHOOTINGS ARE GETTING WORSE! AND IT'S LIKELY THAT THE MORE OVERHEATED RHETORIC FROM THOSE IN THE CONSERVATIVE MEDIA WILL INSPIRE ANOTHER PERSON TO KILL!

Heeling The Wounds Of Tragedy!

Should we blame the conservative agitators in the media for this?

Should the media call this WHITE TERRORISM instead of RIGHT WING EXTREMISM?

Monday begins the media firing squad. Each of them pointing fingers at one another. Conservatives saying that the teachers should have been armed, liberals are saying that the firearm industry and National Rifle Association isn't spooking them anymore! They're planning a protest at the NRA's national headquarters in Fairfax, Virginia.

The conservative media continues the reckless tour of blaming the entertainment industry (i.e. rap music, video games and movies) for the motivation of Sandy Hook school shooter Adam Lanza.

We disagree with the notion that it's the fault of fiction. It's the fault of the conservative agitators in the media, the National Rifle Association, the Gun Owners Association, Republican and Democratic lawmakers who are wobbly on restricting assault style firearms and President Barack Obama for breaking his promise on ensuring the Brady Weapons Ban would be reinstated.

Classmates describe shooter as a "nerd" who was a loner and cold.

The president travels to Newtown, Connecticut to grieved with mourners at the local high school.

President Barack Obama pledged Sunday to use the power of the office he occupies to end the epidemic of gun violence shaking the nation.

"We're not doing enough," the president said. "And we will have to change."

"We can't tolerate this anymore," he added. "These tragedies must end, and to end them, we must change.

We will be told that the causes of such violence are complex, and it is true. No single law, no set of laws can eliminate evil from the world or prevent every senseless act of violence in our society. But that can't be an excuse for inaction. Surely we can do better than this."

Yeah we should do better! But who's going to stand up to an industry that's been a powerful force in politics.

The National Rifle Association has been weakened. They've invested a whole lot of funds into the tight races in many swing states. They've failed to defeat the incumbent Democratic senators and the president. The gun rights organization and many other conservative groups loss big time. Two senate seats went to the Democrats.

Senator John Kerry (D-Massachusetts) will be another fight for the Democrats once he resigns to become the president's next pick for Secretary of State. Republicans and the conservative groups will be once again trying to win this seat.

Nancy Lanza was described as a gun obsessed survivalist. 

New detail emerge into the mother of Adam Lanza. The Daily Mail reports that Nancy Lanza was obsessed with firearms and feared the end of days!

Does Glenn Beck, Alex Jones and Michael Savage ring a bell?

Surely I'm not saying their rhetoric along with Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Matt Drudge and Sean Hannity contributed to the roles of how this woman and her deranged son acted out?

Hell yeah I am!

These fools in the conservative media once again proven to the world that they're the reasons to why the United States will continue to be fucked up!

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.

Mrs Lanza, 52, was a ‘prepper’ – so called because they are preparing for a breakdown in civilised society – who apparently became obsessed with guns and taught Adam and his older brother, Ryan, how to shoot, even taking them to local ranges.

That backfired horrifically on Friday when Adam Lanza began his killing spree by shooting his mother dead in bed.

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.

Only Falling Stars.....

As the names are read to the press, I and Le Reyna again express sadden and sorrow for the loss of such innocent lives by the hands of that deranged shooter Adam Lanza. The 20 year old from Newtown, Connecticut want on a mass shooting spree in which it started at his home where he shared with his mother.

The mother, Nancy Lanza was killed. The man went to the Sandy Hook Elementary School around 9:30 am and began shooting the principal, the school psychologist, a grade school kindergarten teacher, a first grade teacher, a substitute teacher, and another teacher. Then Lanza took his actions on the children.

The names are sourced through Associated Press and Wikipedia. We at Journal De La Reyna send our condolences to the family of the victims.

• Nancy Lanza (née Champion), 52, perpetrator's mother
• Rachel Davino, 29, teacher
• Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung, 47, principal
• Anne Marie Murphy, 52, teacher
• Lauren Rousseau, 30, permanent substitute teacher
• Mary Sherlach, 56, school psychologist
• Victoria "Vicki" Soto, 27, first grade teacher
• Charlotte Bacon, 6
• Daniel Barden, 7
• Olivia Engel, 6
• Josephine Gay, 7
• Dylan Hockley, 6
• Madeline F. Hsu, 6
• Catherine Violet Hubbard, 6
• Chase Kowalski, 7
• Jesse Lewis, 6
• Ana Marquez-Greene, 6
• James Mattioli, 6
• Grace McDonnell, 6
• Emilie Parker, 6
• Jack Pinto, 6
• Noah Pozner, 6
• Caroline Previdi, 6
• Jessica Rekos, 6
• Avielle Richman, 6
• Benjamin Wheeler, 6
• Allison N. Wyatt, 6

Ana Marquez-Greene

Details emerged as the brother Ryan is being questioned. The brother of Adam Lanza was mistaken as the perpetrator of the mass shooting. The media made a huge mistake and the internet lit up his page. It was confirmed by the brother that he had nothing to do with the shooting. The FBI, New Jersey and Connecticut state police are actively questioning him.

As I stated earlier, the Associated Press is going to be the only source I obtain most of my information from.

Some of the pictures may comes from Reuters, Associated Press and UPI.

Wikipedia detailed Lanza was born in Kingston, New Hampshire, where his parents had been married in 1981. Lanza attended St. Rose of Lima for middle school and then Newtown High School, where he was an honors student. He had no criminal record. Lanza lived with his mother at her house in Sandy Hook, located 5 miles (8 km) from the elementary school.

Lanza's connection to the elementary school has been unclear. Although initial reports stated that his mother was a teacher in the school, the school superintendent later disputed that.

Lanza's parents had divorced in 2009. Adam Lanza's father, a vice president and corporate tax accountant for GE Energy Financial Services and an adjunct professor at Northeastern University in Boston who lives in Stamford, Connecticut, originally declined to comment on the shootings.

Lauren Rousseau

Lanza graduated from high school in 2010. It is not clear whether he held a job or was enrolled in a college at any time after graduation. There were suggestions that his mother was unable to work as well. Their family was supported by a $240,000 annual alimony paid by Lanza's father.

It was intially reported that two days before the massacre, Lanza went to a sporting goods store in Danbury, Connecticut, and tried to buy a rifle; he was not sold one because of the state's waiting period for gun sales. This information is still being confirmed according to news sources.

At the time of the shooting, Adam Lanza was carrying the identification of his older brother, leading police sources to initially report the sibling as the perpetrator. Adam Lanza's brother voluntarily submitted to questioning by police, but is not considered a suspect and was not taken into custody.

He said he had not been in touch with his brother since 2010.

Emilie Parker

He told law enforcement that his brother Adam was believed to suffer from a personality disorder and was "somewhat autistic"; classmates said they had been told he had Asperger syndrome. Students and teachers who knew Adam Lanza in high school described him as "intelligent, but nervous and fidgety", saying he normally avoided attention. He was also described by his classmates as a goth. A bus driver who drove the Lanza brothers to and from school recalled them as "really nice boys, well-behaved".

According to former classmates of Adam Lanza's, he was socially uncomfortable; he is not known to have had any close friends in school.

The mainstream media's comments and speculation about autism and Asperger syndrome have been criticized by advocates of the autistic.

Vicki Soto

Police investigated whether Lanza was the person who had been in a reported "altercation" with four staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School the day before the massacre. It was presumed that he killed two of such four staff members (the principal and the psychologist) and wounded the third (the vice-principal) in the attack; the fourth staff member was not at the school that day. But Lt. J. Paul Vance of the Connecticut State Police noted in a news conference later that he knew of no reports about Lanza being involved in any altercations at the school.

A custodian ran through hallways, alerting classrooms in person.

First grade teacher Kaitlyn Roig, age 29, hid 14 students in a bathroom and barricaded the door, telling them to be completely quiet in order to keep them safe.

Noah Pozner

Authorities recovered two 9mm handguns from the scene: one a Glock, and the other a SIG Sauer as well as a .223-caliber Bushmaster rifle.

All the guns were semi-automatic; they were owned by and legally registered to Lanza's mother, who is reported to have been a gun enthusiast. 

A fourth gun was found in the car he drove to the school.

According to the medical examiner, all victims were shot with the same "long weapon", presumably the Bushmaster rifle, and all were hit multiple times; one of the bodies had 11 gunshot wounds.

Adam Lanza was too young to own or carry either handgun under Connecticut law.

Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung

The Associated Press reports that Lanza stormed into the building and shot 20 children at least twice with a high-powered rifle, executing some at close range and killing adults who tried to stop the carnage, authorities said Saturday. He forced his way into the school by breaking a window, officials said. Asked whether the children suffered, Chief Medical Examiner Dr. H. Wayne Carver paused. "If so," he said, "not for very long."

The terrible details about the last moments of young innocents emerged as authorities released their names and ages - the youngest 6 and 7, the oldest 56. They included Ana Marquez-Greene, a little girl who had just moved to Newtown from Canada; Victoria Soto, a 27-year-old teacher who apparently died while trying to hide her pupils; and principal Dawn Hochsprung, who authorities said lunged at the gunman in an attempt to overtake him and paid with her life.

Mary Sherlach

The tragedy has plunged Newtown into mourning and added the picturesque New England community of handsome Colonial homes, red-brick sidewalks and 27,000 people to the grim map of towns where mass shootings in recent years have periodically reignited the national debate over gun control but led to little change.

Faced with the unimaginable, townspeople sadly took down some of their Christmas decorations and struggled Saturday with how to go on. Signs around town read, "Hug a teacher today," "Please pray for Newtown" and "Love will get us through."

"People in my neighborhood are feeling guilty about it being Christmas. They are taking down decorations," said Jeannie Pasacreta, a psychologist who was advising parents struggling with how to talk to their children.

School board chairwoman Debbie Leidlein spent Friday night meeting with parents who lost children and shivered as she recalled those conversations. "They were asking why. They can't wrap their minds around it. Why? What's going on?" she said. "And we just don't have any answers for them."

Ryan Lanza was mistaken as the shooter.

The tragedy brought forth soul-searching and grief around the globe. President Barack Obama planned to visit Newtown on Sunday. Families as far away as Puerto Rico planned funerals for victims who still had their baby teeth, world leaders extended condolences, and vigils were held around the U.S.

"Next week is going to be horrible," said the town's legislative council chairman, Jeff Capeci, thinking about the string of funerals the town will face. "Horrible, and the week leading into Christmas."

Police shed no light on what triggered Adam Lanza, 20, to carry out the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history, though state police Lt. Paul Vance said investigators had found "very good evidence ... that our investigators will be able to use in painting the complete picture, the how and, more importantly, the why." He would not elaborate.

However, another law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said investigators have found no note or manifesto from Lanza of the sort they have come to expect after murderous rampages such as the Virginia Tech bloodbath in 2007 that left 33 people dead.

Lanza shot to death his mother, Nancy Lanza, at the home they shared, then drove to the school in her car with at least three of her guns, forced his way in and opened fire, authorities said. Within minutes, he killed 20 children, six adults and himself.

Education officials said they had found no link between Lanza's mother and the school, contrary to news reports that said she was a teacher there. Investigators said they believe Adam Lanza attended Sandy Hook Elementary many years ago, but they had no explanation for why he went there Friday.

Authorities said Adam Lanza had no criminal history, and it was not clear whether he had a job. Lanza was believed to have suffered from a personality disorder, said a law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Another law enforcement official, also speaking on condition of anonymity, said Lanza had been diagnosed with Asperger's, a mild form of autism often characterized by social awkwardness. People with the disorder are often highly intelligent. While they can become frustrated more easily, there is no evidence of a link between Asperger's and violent behavior, experts say.

Adam Lanza's first victim was his mother Nancy.

The law enforcement officials insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the unfolding investigation.

Richard Novia, the school district's head of security until 2008, who also served as adviser for the school technology club, of which Lanza was a member, said he clearly "had some disabilities."

"If that boy would've burned himself, he would not have known it or felt it physically," Novia said in a phone interview. "It was my job to pay close attention to that."

Amid the confusion and sorrow, stories of heroism emerged, including an account of Hochsprung, 47, and the school psychologist, Mary Sherlach, 56, rushing toward Lanza in an attempt to stop him. Both died.

There was also 27-year-old teacher Victoria Soto, whose name has been invoked as a portrait of selflessness and humanity among unfathomable evil. Investigators told relatives she was killed while shielding her first-graders from danger. She reportedly hid some students in a bathroom or closet, ensuring they were safe, a cousin, Jim Wiltsie, told ABC News.

"She put those children first. That's all she ever talked about," a friend, Andrea Crowell, told The Associated Press. "She wanted to do her best for them, to teach them something new every day."

There was also 6-year-old Emilie Parker, whose grieving father, Robbie, talked to reporters not long after police released the names of the victims but expressed no animosity, offering sympathy for Lanza's family.

"I can't imagine how hard this experience must be for you," he said.

On Saturday, Carver, the medical examiner, said that all the victims at the school were shot with a rifle, at least some of them up close, and that all were apparently shot more than once. All six adults killed at the school were women. Of the 20 children, eight were boys and 12 were girls.

Asked how many bullets were fired, Carver said, "I'm lucky if I can tell you how many I found."

Relatives of the shooter were at a loss for words.

All American flags are at half-staff.

"The whole family is traumatized by this event," said Donald Briggs Jr., police chief of Kingston, N.H., who knows the family. "We reach out to the community of Newtown and express our heartfelt sorrow for this incomprehensible and profound loss of innocence," the family said in a statement.

James Champion, Nancy Lanza's brother and a retired police captain in Kingston, N.H., said through the police chief that he had not seen his nephew in eight years. Champion, who still works as a part-time officer, said he would not discuss what might have triggered the rampage since the case is under investigation.

Acquaintances describe the former honor student as smart but odd and remote.

Mourning day!

Jesse Lewis

Olivia DeVivo, now a student at the University of Connecticut, recalled that Lanza always came to school toting a briefcase and wearing his shirt buttoned all the way up. "He was very different and very shy and didn't make an effort to interact with anybody" in his 10th-grade English class, she said.

Lanza would also go through crises that would require his mother to come to school to deal with. Such episodes might involve "total withdrawal from whatever he was supposed to be doing, be it a class, be it sitting and read a book," said Novia, the tech club adviser.

When people approached Lanza in the hallways, he would press himself against the wall or walk in a different direction, clutching his black case "like an 8-year-old who refuses to give up his teddy bear," said Novia, who now lives in Tennessee.

Even so, Novia said his main concern about Lanza was that he might become a target for teasing or abuse by other students, not that he might become a threat.

"Somewhere along in the last four years there were significant changes that led to what has happened Friday morning," Novia said. "I could never have foreseen him doing that."

Nancy Lanza, who was once a stockbroker for John Hancock in Boston and once lived in Kingston, N.H., was a kind, considerate and loving person, Briggs said.

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"She was very involved in the community and very well-respected," Briggs said.

Lanza's family was struggling to make sense of what happened and "trying to find whatever answers we can," his father, Peter Lanza, said in a statement late Saturday that also expressed sympathy for the victims' families.

Sandy Hook Elementary will be closed next week - some parents can't even conceive of sending their children back, Leidlein said - and officials are deciding what to do about the town's other schools.

Asked whether the town would recover, Maryann Jacob, a clerk in the school library who took cover in a storage room with 18 fourth-graders during the shooting rampage, said: "We have to. We have a lot of children left."
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Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Jim Fitzgerald, Bridget Murphy, Pat Eaton-Robb and Michael Melia in Newtown; Adam Geller in Southbury, Conn.; and Stephen Singer in Hartford, Conn.