From [HERE] Authorities have identified the man suspected of killing 26 people at a Connecticut school as 20-year-old Adam Lanza. He is a white man. The shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary left 20 children dead, reports said. According to news reports, Lanza opened fire at the school in Newtown, Conn., on Friday morning.

The suspect died at the scene from a self-inflicted gunshot. Lanza's mother, who was a kindergarten teacher at the school, was killed at the family's home.

The death toll in the shooting rampage, including Lanza's suicide, was 28. [MORE] 

The school, in the well-to-do town of Newtown in Connecticut (median income $111,506), had become the stage for the latest manifestation of American civic terror: the sudden appearance of a heavily armed white assailant bent on mass murder. The setting was perverse: Newtown reported only one violent crime in 2010 and was considered one of the more attractive places in the country to raise a family. By the end of the onslaught, as many as 20 families would be bereft of their children—and the nation, led by a mournful and teary President Obama, would once again be confronted with the issue of guns in a so-called free society. [MORE]