Media initially reported 2nd shooter in Connecticut massacre

At a press conference held on Friday, police identified twenty-year-old Adam Lanza as the person behind the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School and did not make any mention of a second shooter.

According to a report by ABC News on Friday, the shooter was armed with four weapons.

Also on Friday, the Washington Post reported that an individual was in police custody who might have been a possible second shooter.

CBS news reported: “Another person was being held in police custody after he was detained in the woods near the school wearing camouflage pants.”

    There have been reports that Lanza suffered from a personality disorder, was on the antidepressant Prozac, and was fond of first-person shooter games.


A total of 28 people were killed in the shooting spree in Connecticut. Twenty-seven people -- 20 students, 6 adult victims, and the shooter, who killed himself -- were killed at the school in Newtown. Earlier in the day, the assailant killed his mother in another location.