Members of the Rutter family embrace early Christmas morning as they stand near memorials by the Sandy Hook firehouse in Newtown, Connecticut. Picture: AP Source: AP
ADAM Lanza kept a massive spread sheet with body counts from previous mass murders, and was determined to get the highest 'score', police say.
Lanza, who killed 20 primary school children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut on December 14, 2012, carefully planned the massacre for years and based his attack and suicide on violent video games, police believe.
Searching Lanza's home, investigators found a 7 foot long by 4 foot wide (2.13 metre by 1.23 metre) spreadsheet listing body counts, names and weapons used in previous mass shootings, the Daily News reports.
"It had to have taken years," a law enforcement source said. "It sounded like a doctoral thesis, that was the quality of the research."
"They don't believe this was just a spread sheet. They believe it was a score sheet," he said.
The new details emerged from Connecticut State Police officer Danny Stebbins' talk to cops at the International Association of Police Chiefs and Colonels meeting in New Orleans last week.
"This was the work of a video gamer, and that it was his intent to put his own name at the very top of that list. They believe that he picked an elementary school because he felt it was a point of least resistance, where he could rack up the greatest number of kills," a police officer who heard the talk said.
Gunman Adam Lanza planned the attack for years, keeping careful records of previous mass shootings on a large spreadsheet. Picture: AP
Police believe Lanza killed himself after his rampage to stop police from "taking his points".
"In the code of a gamer, even a deranged gamer like this little bastard, if somebody else kills you, they get your points. They believe that's why he killed himself."
Police also said the killer stopped and reloaded before moving from room to room - a tactic they believe he learned from video games.
Investigators also found photos from two years ago of Lanza posing with weapons strapped to his body, pointing a gun to his head, indicating he had planned the attack for years. The killer had covered his bedroom windows with dark plastic to block out the light.
And police believe his mother Nancy - his first victim - had been buying Lanza guns for years, turning a blind eye to his growing obsession.
Some emergency workers who first responded to the shooting scene at Sandy Hook have since quit, overwhelmed by what they witnessed.
A boy waits near a church before the memorial service for teacher Lauren Rousseau, 30, who was killed by Adam Lanza in the school massacre. Picture: AP/Seth Wenig
"The amazing thing is, as much of a tragedy at it was, it really could have been much worse. Those teachers, the whole school, they did everything they could….Despite the great loss of lives, they did save lives by acting the way they did," the police source told the Daily News.
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