Connecticut shooter Adam Lanza was “not well” – family

The shooter in the Connecticut killing Adam Lanza has been described as “mentally ill” by family friends.

Adam Lanza – Connecticut shooter A relative of the 20 year-old who killed at least 26 people including 20 children when he stormed Sandy Hook elementary school and sporadically opened fire has said he was “obviously not well”. Family friends in Newtown also described the young man as troubled and described his mother Nancy as very rigid. “[Adam] was not connected with the other kids,” said one friend. Late today, police said Nancy Lanza’s body was found in the family home. According to sources, Lanza shot his mother in the face, then left the house armed with at least two semi-automatic handguns and a semi-automatic rifle. State and federal authorities believe his mother may have once worked at the elementary school where Adam went on his deadly rampage, although she was not a teacher, according to relatives, perhaps a volunteer. As part of the investigation authorities searched the New Jersey apartment of Adam’s older brother Ryan in Hoboken, New Jersey. Police had initially identified Ryan as the killer, until he sent out a series of Facebook posts saying it wasn’t him and that he was at work all day. Sources told ABC News that Ryan, 24, works as a senior person in Ernst and Young’s tax practice in Manhattan. “He’s a tax guy and he is clean as a whistle,” a source familiar with his work said. Ryan has worked at the firm 4 years. Today the NYPD and FBI went to Ernst & Young and removed Ryan’s laptop and other possessions, which is part of the normal investigative process. Officials were interviewing Ryan and his father, but neither person was under any suspicion, multiple sources said.