Connecticut gunman killed mum at their home: AP source
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Emergency personnel work the scene outside Sandy Hook Elementary School after a mass shooting on Friday, Dec. 14, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut. A man opened fire inside the Connecticut elementary school where his mother worked Friday, killing 26 people, including 18 children, and forcing students to cower in classrooms and then flee with the help of teachers and police. -- PHOTO: AP
WASHINGTON (AP) - A law enforcement official says that in the Connecticut school shootings, the 20-year-old suspect killed his mother at their home on Friday and then drove his mother's car to the school where he went on the rampage.
Adam Lanza's mother, Nancy, was a teacher at the school, said the law enforcement official.
Meanwhile, in New Jersey, Adam Lanza's older brother, Ryan, 24, of Hoboken, New Jersey, was being questioned by police, said a second official. Earlier, a law enforcement official mistakenly transposed the brothers' first names.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak publicly about the developing investigation.
