Police have released an analysis of the New Town Shooting:
Sources said that Lanza’s shooting spree lasted less than five minutes and that he fired 152 bullets while making his way through two classrooms in the elementary school. Lanza had hundreds more rounds of ammunition either on him or in the car that he drove to the school….Lanza used a Bushmaster AR-15 semiautomatic rifle to shoot his victims and a pistol to kill himself.
Lanza shot his way into the school through the glass windows at the front entrance and turned left toward the first-grade classrooms. He almost immediately encountered Principal Dawn Hochsprung and school psychologist Mary Scherlach, who ran into the hallway from a meeting room, which would have been on Lanza’s right. He shot them both to death immediately.
Sources said that the two teachers who were injured were hit by ricochet bullets from that initial burst of gunfire. One teacher was in the meeting room with Hochsprung and Scherlach and was hit in the leg and crawled back into the room and called 911. The second teacher was closing the door to her classroom much farther down the hallway, where Lanza never went, when she was hit in the foot.
Lanza bypassed the first classroom that belonged to Kaitlin Roig, who had closed her door when she heard the original shots fired at the front door. Sources said that Sandy Hook Elementary had only weeks earlier had a lockdown drill and that Roig had not taken down the piece of black construction paper that teachers are instructed to place over the small window in the classroom doors so that no one can look in.
Sounds like he took the path of least resistance to shoot the most people, until police arrived, when he killed himself with ammo to spare. No word on the capacity of the magazines, but that wouldn’t have made much of a difference. His first encounter was the principal, who was unarmed and an easy target. If she had been armed and prepared I doubt we’d ever hear about this story except on gun blogs.
We need to end these state-mandated shooting galleries for lunatics.
