10 Disturbing Things You Probably Didn't Know About Adam Lanza Your Scrapbook is currently empty. Lanza's Psychiatric Treatment Revealed In Documents (The Hartford How do we go on every day missing a piece of our family? It was then that Adam Lanza committed the second deadliest school shooting in the country's history, killing 26 people, including 20 . But he knew better, and called Shelley at work. There is nothing in the report that will answer those for us.. Family of Nancy Lanza/ABC News video Try again later. Westchester County, In 2012, Nancy began discussing a possible move to North Carolina or Washington state so that Adam could again attend college and pursue a degree in history. He killed 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012. He became fascinated with guns and with the Second World War, and showed an interest in joining the military. Lanza also had a number of books and articles on other mass killings. Inadequate gun control and poor mental-health care are problems that invariably define the debate after atrocities such as the one at Newtown. But lets keep in mind that you expect Adam to be weird. Still, Peter and Nancy sought professional support repeatedly, and none of the doctors they saw detected troubling violence in Adams disposition. On the anniversary of the massacre, Peter and Shelley finally went through the stuff, reading letters of support they previously hadnt felt able to face. Adam had difficulties with cordination and, when he was seventeen, Peter told Nancy that he had had to pause to retie his shoes on a hike. Administrators would often request Nancys presence on campus, and it was not uncommon for her to be at the high school as many as two or three times a week to deal with Adams behavior issues. Only two of the victims who were shot by Lanza both teachers survived the attack. He destroyed one of his hard drives, and left behind an electronic spreadsheet on mass murder, and photographs of himself with a gun to his head. English You are only allowed to leave one flower per day for any given memorial. Adam loved Sandy Hook school, Peter said. Adam Peter Lanza. I want people to be afraid of the fact that this could happen to them, he said. What do you do? Peter wondered. He fired more than 150 shots from a .223-caliber Bushmaster rifle before turning a 10mm Glock pistol on himself once police arrived, according to the report.