Adam Lanza Made Online Posts about Mass Killings Prior to Sandy Hook School Shooting
Sandy Hook gunman Adam Lanza obsessed over correcting Wikipedia entries about mass killers, authorities believe.
According to the Hartford Courant, authorities are investigating whether a series of posts about firearms on gun message boards were written by the 17-year-old Lanza prior to the Sandy Hook mass shooting.
In one entry, the poster, who is suspected to be Lanza, wrote that he had a 'fetish' for .32 ACP bullets.
Adam Lanza killed 20 young children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in December, last year.
The 20-year-old first shot his mother Nancy Lanza four times in the head before the rampage began.
Lanza used two semi-automatic pistols, a Glock and Sig Sauer, killing 20 elementary school students and six adults before taking his own life.
Investigators have linked Lanza to the series of posts and the Wikipedia editing.
The posts were made between April, 2009, and February, 2010, and if, as suspected, they were made by Lanza, they reveal his deep obsession with American mass shootings and the weapons used.
Some of the posts question gun laws in Connecticut and include recommendations on the best rifles to buy.
In one post, the person believed to be Lanza, questions whether a ban on semiautomatic pistols will be extended and is advised by other users to contact Connecticut State Police.
He responds: 'I always prefer asking through proxy when I can avoid speaking to someone directly. I was just wondering if anyone knew because I have a fetish for .32 ACP', reports The Courant.
Using the same username, the person also corrected details on 12 Wikipedia entries about mass shootings around the world.
Between August 2009 and February 2010, the same user name linked to Lanza made revisions to 12 Wikipedia entries about massacres across the world during the same 2009 to 2010 time frame as the gun website and gaming chat-room posts.
One entry specifies the weapons Kip Kinkel used at the age of 15 to kill his parents before going on a shooting spree at his Oregon high school, where two were killed and 25 were wounded in May 1998.
A revision involving the Sept. 13, 2006, shooting at Dawson College in Montreal, in which one student was killed and 19 others wounded, is very specific about how the Wikipedia article describes the firearm used by the killer.
" '9mm' was listed as '.9mm.' People say that 9mm is anemic, but this is ridiculous," the poster, believed to be Lanza, says to explain his revision.
The poster revised entries about the October 1991 massacre at Luby's cafeteria in Killeen, Texas. 23 people were killed and 20 more injured and the 1988 massacre at ESL Inc., a high-technology software manufacturing company in Sunnyvale, Calif. The gunman at ESL, Richard Farley, killed seven people and wounded four others.