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Nancy Lanza, the mother of the 20-year old gunman who massacred 26 people yesterday morning in Newtown, Connecticut, was not a current staff member of that school, contrary to earlier reports. Yesterday the media had been reporting she was a kindergarten teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary.
“Newtown Supt. Janet Robinson told NBC Connecticut’s Jo Ling Kent on Saturday that there is no record of Lanza in the school database,” NBC Connecticut has just reported:
“Mrs. Lanza, who I have never met, was not a teacher in the district,” Robinson said. “She’s not in our database as a staff member.”
She might have been a substitute teacher or volunteer at the school, but that is not clear.
Profilers on the cable news networks have been surmising that Mrs. Lanza’s role as a kindergarten teacher was an integral part of the investigation, which now seems to be incorrect, leaving her son’s motive even more distant.
“A former Newtown school board official told the Wall Street Journal that ‘no one has heard of her,’ adding that ‘teachers don’t know her,'” Slate reported late this morning. “The Associated Press reports that at least one parent identified Nancy Lanza as a substitute teacher at the school but her name isn’t on a staff list and an official said they have so far been unable to establish a connection between her and the school.”
“The two semiautomatic pisols and .223-caliber Bushmaster rifle Lanza used in the shooting were registered to his mother, whom several witnesses identified as an avid gun collector,” Slate added. “She apparently taught her kids how to shoot the guns. The owner of a landscaping business who recently decorated her yard for Christmas tells Reuters she once showed him a ‘really nice, high-end rifle’ that she purchased. ‘She said she would often go target shooting with her kids.’â€