WASHINGTON (AP) — The suspect in the
Connecticut school shootings is Adam Lanza, 20, the son of a teacher at
the school where
the shootings occurred, a law enforcement official said Friday. A
second law enforcement official says the boy's mother, Nancy
Lanza, is presumed dead.
Adam Lanza's older brother, Ryan, 24, of Hoboken, N.J., was being questioned by police, said the first official. Earlier,
a law enforcement official mistakenly transposed the brothers' first names.
Ryan Lanza has been extremely cooperative
during questioning late Friday by law enforcement in New Jersey, said a
third law
enforcement official who was briefed on the investigation. Ryan
Lanza is not believed to have any involvement and is not under
arrest or in custody, but investigators were still searching his
computers and phone records, said the third official.
Ryan Lanza told law enforcement that his brother was believed to suffer from a personality disorder and be "somewhat autistic"
and lived with the mother in Connecticut, the third official added.
All the officials spoke on the condition of
anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the record about
the developing
criminal investigation.
The first official said Adam Lanza is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
According to the second official, the suspect drove to the scene of the shootings in his mother's car. Three guns were found
at the scene — a Glock and a Sig Sauer, both pistols — and a .223-caliber rifle. The rifle was recovered from the back of
a car at the school. The two pistols were recovered from inside the school.
Meanwhile, former Jersey Journal staff writer Brett Wilshe said he has spoken with Ryan Lanza of Hoboken, who told Wilshe
the shooter may have had Ryan Lanza's identification.
Ryan Lanza has a Facebook page that posted updates Friday afternoon that read that "it wasn't me" and "I was at work."
One of the officials said earlier Friday
that a girlfriend of one of the Lanza brothers and another friend were
missing in
New Jersey. Subsequently, the third official said police had
talked with the girlfriend. One of the friends had to be reached
in California, so it took some time.