Calgary Herald

NEWTOWN KILLER DESCRIBED ’SCORN FOR HUMANITY’

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Documents from the investigat­ion into the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticu­t are shedding light on the gunman’s scorn for other people, and deep social isolation.

The documents that a court ordered Connecticu­t State Police to release include several writings by Adam Lanza, pictured, who gunned down 20 children and six educators on Dec. 14, 2012. He fatally shot his mother before driving to the school and ultimately killed himself.

Lanza wrote in what appears to be an online communicat­ion with a fellow gamer: “I incessantl­y have nothing other than scorn for humanity,” the Hartford Courant reported. “I have been desperate to feel anything positive for someone.

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