MacCruiskeen wrote:Could someone please post any verifiable or at least credible evidence that the masked gunman was in fact positively identified by any of the surviving witnesses as Adam Lanza? Thank you.
Could you, personally, using only the information on the Wikipedia article on the shooting, identify exactly how many witnesses to the shooter's actions might be available to make such a statement?
Fuck it, I'll try:
Someone killed Nancy Lanza, so she's not gonna be giving any statements. Then someone drove Ms. Lanza's car to the school. We don't know who. No one saw that happen. We don't even know if her car was in her garage or not. It may have been at the school at any time before the police ID'ed it as hers.
Then the shooter...
...shot his way through a locked glass door at the front of the school.[19][20] He was wearing black military-style gear, including a bulletproof vest and mask.[21][22] Some of those present reported that initial shots were heard on the school intercom system, which was being used for morning announcements.[16]
He was wearing a mask. How convenient. So the camera at the front door can't ID the shooter. Next...
Principal Dawn Hochsprung and school psychologist Mary Sherlach were meeting with other faculty members when they heard gunshots outside. Hochsprung and Sherlach immediately left the room and rushed to the source of the sounds and encountered Lanza, who shot both women dead as they confronted him.[23] Hochsprung may have turned on the school intercom to alert others in the building. A 9-year-old boy in the gymnasium said that he heard the shooter say "Put your hands up!" and someone else saying "Don't shoot!", over the intercom system. He also heard people yelling and many gunshots over the intercom as he, his classmates, and teacher took refuge in a closet in the gymnasium.[24] Diane Day, a school therapist who was at the faculty meeting, reported hearing screaming, followed by more gunshots. Natalie Hammond, lead teacher in the meeting room, pressed her body against the door to keep it closed. [The shooter] shot Hammond through the door in the leg and arm, for which she was later treated at Danbury Hospital.
Hochsprung and Sherlach - dead. No statements coming from them. Hammond - shot through the door where she and the other teachers in the meeting were barricaded. Again, how very convenient. None of them saw the shooter.
In a first-grade classroom, Lauren Rousseau, a substitute teacher since October, was shot in the face and killed. All but one of the children in her classroom were also shot dead; a 6-year-old girl was the sole survivor. Her family pastor said that the child survived the mass shooting by playing dead and remaining still until the building grew quiet and she felt it was safe to leave. She ran from the school, covered in blood, and was the first child to escape the building. When she reached her mother, she said, "Mommy, I'm OK, but all my friends are dead." The child described the shooter as a very angry man.[26]
Well, finally, a witness, and a live one at that, giving a description, albeit not a very detailed one, and not IDing the shooter by name.
The events in another first-grade classroom remain uncertain, with varying accounts attributed to the surviving children. Teacher Victoria Leigh Soto was reported to have attempted to hide several children in a closet and cupboards.[27][28] As [the shooter] entered her classroom, Soto reportedly told him that the children were in the auditorium. Several of the children then came out of their hiding place and tried to run for safety and were shot dead. Soto put herself between her students and the shooter, who then fatally shot her.[28] Six surviving children from Soto's class crawled out of the cupboards after the shooting and fled the school. They and a school bus driver took refuge at a nearby home.[29] As reported by his parents, a 6-year-old boy in Ms. Soto's class fled with a group of his classmates and the children escaped through the door when the gunman shot their teacher.[30
Hard to tell here. It sounds like all the survivors were hiding in cupboards where they probably wouldn't get a good look at the shooter. Again. And very conveniently, the survivors are all six years old, and in all likelihood won't be able to ID the shooter or describe him with much accuracy.
Anne Marie Murphy, a teacher's aide who worked with special-needs students, shielded 6-year-old Dylan Hockley with her body, trying to protect him from the bullets that killed them both.[31][32] Paraprofessional Rachel D'Avino, who had been employed at the school working with a special-needs student for a little more than one week, also died trying to protect her students.[33]
School nurse Sarah Cox, 60, hid under a desk in her office and described seeing Lanza enter her office and stand 20 feet away before turning around and leaving. She and school secretary Barbara Halstead then hid in a first-aid supply closet for up to four hours, after calling 9-1-1.[34] Elsewhere, a custodian ran through hallways, alerting classrooms.[35]
Aha! At last - we have an adult witness! But
what can she tell us?“I just dove under my computer desk,” she told The Post in an interview at her home in Newtown, a day after Adam Lanza stormed into her school and gunned down 20 children and six staffers.
Within seconds, the popping sounds stopped as quickly as they had started, and Cox held her breath when she heard someone open her office door.
Through the openings of the desk, she saw a pair of legs from the knees down wearing dark clothing and boots.
“I could see by the position of the feet that they were facing my desk,” Cox said, describing her brush with Lanza, 20, who had earlier killed his mother, Nancy, before unleashing his terror on the school.
Cox said he was no more than 20 feet away from her.
“The person was there just a few seconds,” Cox said. “I was frozen in fear.”
Cox crouched paralyzed under her desk.
“He turned around and walked out, and as soon as the door closed I heard more popping,” Cox recalled.
Oh, that's just greaaaaaat. Like she couldn't have peeked out for just a second to ID the shooter. As if she didn't have a celphone in her purse. Whatever.
And that's it. No one else really came in contact with the shooter:
First grade teacher Kaitlin Roig, age 29, hid 14 students in a bathroom and barricaded the door, telling them to be completely quiet to remain safe.[36][37] School library staff Yvonne Cech and Maryann Jacob first hid 18 children in a part of the library the school used for lockdown in practice drills, but on discovering that one of the doors would not lock, had the children crawl into a storage room as Cech barricaded the door with a filing cabinet.[6][24][38]
Music teacher Maryrose Kristopik, 50, barricaded her fourth-graders in a tiny supply closet during the rampage.[39] Lanza arrived moments later, pounding and yelling "Let me in", while the students in Kristopik's class quietly hid inside.[40]
Two third graders, chosen as classroom helpers, were walking down the hallway to the office to deliver the morning attendance sheet during the shooting. Teacher Abbey Clements pulled both children into her classroom, where they hid, saving their lives.[41]
Laura Feinstein, a reading specialist at the school, gathered two students from outside her classroom and hid with them under desks after they heard gunshots.[42] Feinstein called the school office and attempted to call 9-1-1 but was unable to connect because her cell phone did not have reception. She hid with the children for approximately 40 minutes, before law enforcement came to lead them out of the room.[43]
Her celphone didn't have reception. Right.
So: we have one witness, the six-year old girl from the Rousseau classroom who survived by playing dead. That's it. One. Hopefully some competent reporters will get their hands on her at some point in the near future so we can get a more detailed description than, "a very angry man". 'Cause that could be any number of people.
This thing has all the earmarks of a Beslan/Gladio/strategy of tension/NWO false flag designed to either sell guns or take them away, or some other nebulous and nefarious motive depending upon your perspective.
