Newtown Shooting Investigation Search Warrants Released (DOCS)

Search warrants relating to the investigation into the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School were released Thursday. 

NBC News-CT reports that family members of the murder victims were counseled Wednesday about the pending release of the documents, which outline what was found in the home of the man accused of killing 20 children and six adults in December 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT. 

The warrants provide details about what was taken by investigators during the course of the investigation. The search warrants relate to searches at the family home at 36 Yogananda Street in Newtown and a family car parked the Sandy Hook Elementary School. 

The warrants say the Newtown Police Department received a 911 call from Sandy Hook Elementary School at about 9:35 a.m. on Dec. 14, 2012. "The caller reported that an active shooting situation was occurring at the Sandy Hook Elementary School," the warrant says. 

Upon arrival, police officers from the Newtown Police Department an the Connecticut State Police conducted a search and found a black Honda Civic belonging to Nancy Lanza parked in a fire land in front of the school. As police officers entered the school, the found "numerous school children and school personnel" dead from gunshot wounds in the first three classrooms located off of the main hallway, near the school's front door, the warrants say. 

"The investigators also located a teenaged white male dressed in military style clothing, wearing a bullet proof vest lying deceased on the floor in the middle classroom," the warrant says. The dead man had several handguns as well as a "military style assault weapon." 

" ... the deceased male has tentatively been identified as Adam Lanza, DOB 04/22/92," the warrant says.

Law enforcement officials then went to the Lanza home in Sandy Hook. 

"Upon arrival at Lanza's residence, Connecticut State Police Emergency Service Unit gained entry into the house and located a deceased middle aged white female lying in a supine position on a bed in the 2nd floor master bedroom. The white female sustained an apparent gunshot wound to her forehead. Investigators located a rifle on the floor near the bed. The deceased white female is presumed to be Nancy Lanza, DOB 09/06/60," the warrant says. 

Portions of the warrant are redacted, but it appears as though someone told investigators that [redacted] "rarely leaves his home and considers him to be a shut in and an avid gamer who plays Call of Duty amongst other games. [Redacted] has a gun safe containing at least four guns [Redacted] had attended Sandy Hook Elementary School and that the school was Adam Lanza's 'life.'"

" ... during the execution of the Search and Seizure Warrant at the Lanza residence, 36 Yogananda Street in Sandy Hook, CT, investigators located written documents presumed to be authored and/or collected by Adam Lanza," one of the search warrants says. "These documents were located at various locations within the residence including but not limited to Adam Lanza's bedroom. These documents include but are not limited to personal notes, memoirs, and thoughts believed to be colleced by Adam Lanza. Documents such as these are routinely utilized by investigators to develop a psychological profile of the author of such." 

Items recovered during the course of the investigation include

• a long list of weapons and ammunition
• a military-style uniform
• to-do lists
• PSAT scores
• high school paperwork
• college paperwork in the name of Adam Lanza
• bank account information
• a receipt for the Timstar Shooting Range in Weatherford, OK
• a journal authored by Ryan Lanza
• a holiday card containing a check made out to Adam Lanza for the purchase of a firearm authored by Nancy Lanza
• notebooks, drawings, medical records, psychiatric records, prescriptions, subscriptions and newspaper clippings
• photographs with images of "what appears to be a deceased human covered with plastic and what appears to be blood"
• books, including "Look Me In The Eye--My Life With Asbergers," "Born On A Blue Day--Inside the Mind Of An Autistic Savant," "NRA Guide To The Basics Of Pistol Shooting," and a paperback book, with pages tabbed off, entitled "Train Your Brain To Get Happy." 

The items also included a Feb. 18, 2008 New York Times article about a school shooting at Northern Illinois University. Articles from the New York Times on that shooting include: 

• Gunman Hid His Tracks, Officials Say (February 20, 2008)
• First on the Scene, Again, Is the College Newspaper (February 18, 2008)
• After Shootings, Illinois Campus Prepares to Mourn Victims (February 17, 2008)
• Seeking Campus Security, But Gaps Likely to Persist (February 16, 2008)
• Grief and Questions After Deadly Shootings (February 16, 2008)
• Gunman Showed Few Hints of Trouble (February 16, 2008)
• Gunman Slays 6 at N. Illinois University (February 15, 2008)