School shooter to be buried in secret

An undated photo shows Adam Lanza, who opened fire inside the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, killing 26 people, including 20 children, before taking his own life. Source: AP

THE body of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooter Adam Lanza, who killed 26 people in a deadly rampage, will be buried in a secret location.

Connecticut State Medical Examiner Wayne H Carver II said that Lanza's body was claimed several days ago, the Hartford Courant reports.

Family spokesman Errol Cockfield said the body was claimed Thursday by the shooter's father, Peter Lanza, reports CNN.

According to the Courant, the father and son had had little contact in the last couple of years.

Police block a road near the house of Nancy Lanza, the mother and first victim of shooter Adam Lanza. Picture: Don Emmert

Adam Lanza, 20, killed himself in a classroom after a shooting spree that left 26 people - including 20 children - dead inside Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14. It was the second-deadliest school shooting in United States history.

Lanza had earlier killed his mother Nancy at the home they shared.

Mr Carver has ordered toxicology tests to be performed before finalising his findings, although he has already ruled Lanza's death a suicide. Geneticists at the University of Connecticut will also examine Lanza's DNA to for any abnormalities that might explain his aberrant behaviour.

Mourners assemble outside Trinity Episcopal Church ahead of the funeral of one of the Sandy Hook victims, six-year-old Benjamin Andrew Wheeler. Picture: Julio Cortez

James Fox, a professor of criminology at Northeastern University and a mass shooting expert told ABC news that in these cases "the grave is [often] not marked because the family is afraid the grave will be defaced."

"When there is a funeral for the perpetrator it is private," Fox said. "Press is not kept apprised of when it is or where it is for the same reason."
   

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