Shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School: The Adam Lanza Report

In January, 2013, The Office of the Child Advocate was directed by the Connecticut Child Fatality Review Panel to prepare a report that would focus on Adam Lanza (hereinafter “AL”), and include a review of the circumstances that pre-dated his commission of mass murder at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The charge was to develop any recommendations for public health system improvement that emanated from the report. Authors looked for any warning signs, red flags, or other lessons that could be learned from a review of AL’s life. It is vital to note that AL was completely untreated in the years before the shooting and did not receive sustained, effective services during critical periods of his life, and it is this story that the report seeks to tell.