The young man who killed 20 children and six adults at a Connecticut elementary school Friday suffered from a condition where he could literally feel no pain, according to a faculty member at his old high school. 
 
 Richard Novia, the advisor for the tech club at Newton High, said that if Adam Lanza cut or hurt himself, "he would not know it or feel it." 
 
 Novia's words are the latest from a series of former acquaintances of Lanza's to paint him as bright but obviously troubled. 
 
 "Adam Lanza has been a weird kid since we were five years old," wrote a neighbor and former classmate Timothy Dalton on Twitter. "As horrible as this was, I can't say I am surprised." 
 
 "[Adam] was not connected with the other kids," said family friend Barbara Frey. A relative told ABC News that Adam was "obviously not well." 
 
 Mark Tambascio, another family friend, said he believed Lanza's mother, Nancy, had become increasingly concerned in the last few months about Lanza's emotional and behavioral issues. Lanza's parents divorced three years ago and his mother was left to deal Lanza alone. 
 
 "It was getting a little harder for her as time went on," he said. 
 
 Divorce records obtained by ABC News revealed that Nancy was to "make all decisions" with respect to her son, but only after consulting with Lanza's father. The settlement awarded Nancy approximately a quarter million dollars a year in alimony but the documents do not mention any behavioral or mental health problems related to Adam Lanza. 
 
 Kyle Kromberg, another former classmate, said that Lanza could not keep eye contact with anyone. 
 
 "He hated looking at your eyes for more than a couple seconds," Kromberg said. "He'd always look down at his papers or whatever he was doing." 
 
 A former babysitter, Ryan Kraft, said Nancy told him never to leave Adam alone -- "Never even to the bathroom or turn your back on him at any time." 
 
 On Friday morning, Lanza shot Nancy in the face at the home they shared in Newtown, and then drove her car to Sandy Hook Elementary School. Dressed in black combat gear, the 20-year-old broke a window at the school, which had recently had a new security system installed, and within minutes had shot and killed six adults and 20 schoolchildren between the ages of five and 10. 
 
 Police said Lanza used a Bushmaster semiautomatic assault-style rifle to kill the children before using a handgun to take his own life. Officials said the guns were likely legally purchased by Nancy. 
 
 Officials told ABC News that computers removed from Lanza's family home over the weekend provide important clues into Lanza's twisted thinking. 
 
 Click Here for the Blotter Homepage. ||||| Richard Novia served as chief of security in Newtown’s school district and ran the tech club at Newtown High School. He recruited Adam to join the tech club, hoping to encourage him to become more social. According to Novia, Adam’s mother, Nancy, was at a loss as to how to help her son. “She was failing at bringing him out of his little world,” Novia said. “And I said that I think I can help him.” This is the edited transcript of an interview conducted on Jan. 27, 2013. 
 
 Richard, you arrived in Newtown in 1993? 
 
 At the school systems? Yes. I lived in Newtown. 
 
 Can you talk about what you encountered about the climate, what the environment of the town high school is, and what you set about doing? 
 
 They had the typical problems most schools do: substance abuse, some gang stuff, leaving campuses — all kinds of little problems that made [the school system hire] persons like myself to put them in perspective, [and give] assessments and recommendations to prevent these things from happening. 
 
 And what are the cliques that you identified? 
 
 For example, you had your black dressers, or your cloaks. You had sports cliques. There are many, many types of cliques in the school system, I made an objective to identify them and understand them. … 
 
 Now you mentioned from your security and investigative background, you had an affinity for electronics … so you went on about starting a tech club, a computer club at the high school? 
 
 Right, I was basically a geek. ‚Ä¶ So I could see that several types of students, the geeky type, or the nerds, which I related to very well, were missing something on the campuses at the time, and it was a way for me to pull them in. 
 
 And these were also types of students that often become victims of bullying, harassing, hazing. So I developed a tech club, to bring these students in and interact with them. And it grew from two or three to as high at 40 kids. 
 
 Now the time that we get into the mid-2000s, did you have Ryan Lanza in your tech club? 
 
 Yes. Yes I did. ‚Ä¶ 
 
 And at what point did you expand the tech club? 
 
 We began to interact with the middle schools, the students in the 6th and 7th grades, and bring programs to them. So the tech club members and myself would take robotics down there. They would have to assemble them, put them together and then program them, make them follow little patterns on the floor with the robots. And this was a way to engage the middle school. They felt they were making friends earlier on. They were finding their ways to be who they were. [It was] a way to exercise their intelligence. 
 
 ¬†You met Adam Lanza there? 
 
 Yes. 
 
 While he was in middle school? 
 
 I believe so, while the tech club was in expansion mode. We would invite them to the high school for the events. We would video tape a football game, a basketball game, a graduation, parades ‚ÄĒ all kinds of stuff at the high school level. And the middle school was now involved, so they would be bussed up to the high school after school for these events. 
 
 You remember if Adam came to those events early on? 
 
 Inside events, wen we had like activities like tech club night sleepovers. We‚Äôd spend a weekend or overnight in the school, lock it down. I‚Äôm in charge, as a director of security. You had 30 kids, some of them were middle schoolers whose parents allow them to come over and stay overnight. He did partake in those. 
 
 Did Ryan stay close? 
 
 Early on Ryan, unfortunately, he had to [be] somewhat of a caregiver for his brother, when all he wanted to do is be a typical 16 year old and have his fun, which meant video shoots and computer games and all kinds of stuff throughout the night. But yeah, they were together at one point. 
 
 How did your connection with Adam evolve from the moment you first met him on through the year and two years that he was in your orbit? 
 
 From when I first met him, I recognized him as a person who would be likely to be bullied or picked on.¬†‚Ä¶ I identified him both because he had mental disorders, challenges. … And my objective at that time was to watch him very closely and make sure that didn‚Äôt happen. 
 
 … How do you help him or deal with him? 
 
 I interacted with his parent early on to find out as much as I could – 
 
 Nancy Lanza?¬† 
 
 Nancy yes, who I think is a wonderful woman. … As a staff member, and certainly a person who’s gonna be overseeing your child, I need to know what I‚Äôm dealing with. You might have an allergy to peanut butter. It‚Äôs that simple, I need to know this sort of stuff. 
 
 So my interaction with Nancy Lanza was really: “Tell me about Adam. Tell me how you deal with Adam.” 
 
 ¬†And what did she say about Adam? 
 
 Oh, she told me that he had several disorders. 
 
 ¬†Did she say he had Asperger’s? 
 
 Yes. I believe, yeah, she did. That‚Äôs where I first [got] the information. Because I was going to be responsible for him and wanted to do well by him and integrate him. 
 
 ¬†Did she also say that he had a sensory processing disorder? 
 
 Yes, she did. Yes. 
 
 And did that fall into one of the areas of concern, because maybe he wouldn‚Äôt report an injury, report pain, seek help as someone else would? 
 
 Exactly. So my first interaction with her was to understand what I had to be concerned about, what I needed to know about him. But also since she had been the mother over the years, how was it that she was dealing with him and what could I do? 
 
 And what did she say about that? 
 
 Specifically that kind of thing, she was failing at bringing him out of his little world. And I said that I think I can help him.¬†I think can I integrate him better through the tech club. 
 
 What was her reaction to that? 
 
 She didn‚Äôt think it would work. She was very concerned to let him out, although she really, really, desperately needed him to be more social. So she went along with it and I think we saw some success. 
 
 ¬†Did she express as the months went by that in a sense, you were right? 
 
 Well, she was a good parent. This was a parent who was actively involved with her children, their educational processes, their groups, their friends. The older son didn‚Äôt need her care. He was way ahead of most. 
 
 The younger son needed extra care. Video productions, software — he would master this stuff very quickly. But still to get him to speak one or two words, it was very, very hard. 
 
 But over time I was able to get closer and closer to him, to a point where I felt that I could sit next to him and he wouldn‚Äôt pull away. He wouldn‚Äôt withdraw, and he was comfortable. You could see him maybe not so much as cringe. 
 
 Did Nancy acknowledge that and let you know that she recognized that? 
 
 Yes, she did. She saw it working. Not just her — administrators, teachers, all the students that were around him would report that slowly but surely, he was coming out. He was succeeding, and I was happy. 
 
 He‚Äôs not my only one, OK. There‚Äôs lots of kids like this, and they might belong to a different group. But the object is to socialize them. 
 
 How often to do you recall Nancy being on campus on a weekly basis? 
 
 In his freshman year, there were periods of time where I think I saw her two or three times a week. I think I saw her two or three times a week, and then you‚Äôd have a good month or two and I‚Äôd see her once. 
 
 Why would she typically be there two or three‚ÄĒ 
 
 Adam had episodes. It was the best way I can describe them to you. He would completely withdraw. Again he would go backwards. He would pull back within himself entirely. And getting him to come back out of that required an attention, my attention. ‚Ä¶ 
 
 Would she be called to the school? 
 
 Yes.¬†‚Ä¶ I did recall calling her once on a overnight where I think I sent him home. 
 
 So what happened on that overnight? 
 
 We were doing well and at some point, again he would have his episode. This episode would be where he completely withdraws from the social activity that you‚Äôre involved with. Will not communicate. Adam, what‚Äôs going on? No answer. 
 
 You could see it slowly happening. Most of the tech club kids are aware of him and his situations, in a loving and caring way, and would say, “Hey Mr. Novia,” you know, “you need to go take a look at Adam.” He would separate himself from the group, not far, but at the same time, not want to be too far away where he didn‚Äôt feel safe. 
 
 Was there a time when he was in a darkened room, the only illumination was the glow of the screens, and he wouldn‚Äôt come out? 
 
 Yeah, I mean, that was an example I‚Äôve given before to help understand his personality. He likes isolation. He likes to be alone. But at the same time, not. He likes to be near, but not too close. 
 
 So there was a time where we had a controlled room for the video productions of our channel 17. He would like to be in there. The only illumination of the room is the monitors, and intentionally it‚Äôs dark in that room. He‚Äôd like that type of environment. He‚Äôd like that quiet, close the door in the control room, stay in there. I would say, “No, no, no, you‚Äôre on to do this.” ‚Ä¶ And we had reached a point where he would actually respond to that. So that was progress. “You‚Äôre gonna be behind camera 4.” Now, he wouldn‚Äôt say no, he wouldn‚Äôt say yes. He wouldn‚Äôt say anything. But he got to a point where he was able to comply. And walk along and do things and do activities. 
 
 And then later on, he would actually follow the groups around. And an episode would be the complete reverse of that: Not willing to communicate, not willing to talk, and not willing to share or able to share was a better word. 
 
 Was there any trigger to that? Was there any proceeding event that you identified? 
 
 My opinion would be that he would become accustomed to certain things and when you try to raise that level or bar, he would pull back. 
 
 A change from the routine? 
 
 Yeah, excitement. I‚Äôll give you an example. On a normal tech club afternoon, the kids don‚Äôt go home. They just stay on campus with me. I‚Äôm usually there 16 hours a day anyways, and we‚Äôll be in the tech club room, where all the computers are. 
 
 You might [play] capture the flag. He’s not used to that, has no idea what it is. All the kids are gathering and they are starting to get excited. You‚Äôd lose him. So you had the change and he wasn‚Äôt able to go along with those changes as fluidly as the other students, who would say: “What is capture the flag? I want in, I want in.” 
 
 And the times you called … what was the typical interaction with Nancy Lanza? 
 
 She knew, because she had raised him. There really wasn‚Äôt that much of a discussion. It would be more like, “Nancy, you need to come up to the school.” This is old stuff now, so she‚Äôd just come up to the school. And I‚Äôd say, “He‚Äôs having an episode and I‚Äôd prefer that he‚Äôd go home.” 
 
 Other times, there had been many occasions where I thought not to send him home. ‚Ä¶ I‚Äôd go up and sit next to him. If he was sitting on the floor in the corner somewhere, I would do the same. And if it took a half an hour to sit there in silence with him, at some point, you‚Äôd go, “How we doing?” And you wouldn‚Äôt get an answer. 
 
 So I had read a book many years before that on how to interact with this type of behavior. I had studied the DSM-5 repeatedly on his behalf and on many other students’ behalf. I had a gadget with me at one time. I handed him the gadget, put it down. And he wouldn‚Äôt take it. But at some point, he started to play with it. And that actually, at some point, got him to start to come back and interact and be ready to go take part in the events. No answer, but physically getting up and going. 
 
 Was Adam on a track to violence? 
 
 No. Not at that time. Not at that time he was not. 
 
 His manifestation would be what? In the hallways for example? During class change, between bells? 
 
 That would scare him more than anything, in the beginning especially. I‚Äôm sure he got better, but he would avoid the crowds in the halls. Anybody could imagine or remember what this is. There‚Äôs hundreds of kids going in between lockers, opening up and closing, you know, mayhem in the hallways between bells. People rushing to the cafeteria, rushing to their classes. 
 
 That would make him nervous. And he would maybe shy against them, or wait. Maybe he’d be late for class. He would wait where there was no kids and then move along and then he would take the locker situation. But he had an escort at times. I mean there‚Äôs staffers. I was around. My people were around. 
 
 Were there times when he might not come to a class or wander out of a class? 
 
 It wasn‚Äôt until his later times that he I believe he had actual classes. Special ed ‚ÄĒ he was part of that group. They have their own rooms, so he was in there a lot and did not have to go room to room in the beginning. Later on, they‚Äôre trying to integrate him so he would be put in a classroom and see how that works. 
 
 ¬†At some point did you learn that Nancy Lanza had taken Adam out of high school? 
 
 At the same time I was leaving the Board of Education, she pulled him out too. He couldn‚Äôt come back for that school year. 
 
 Why do you think she pulled him out? 
 
 I don‚Äôt know. I‚Äôve pondered this issue for a long time. I have often wondered that if she just felt one of his main support networks were no longer there. I don‚Äôt know. He may have gotten worse. I don‚Äôt know. He may have pulled back farther at that point. I don‚Äôt have an answer for that because like I said, I was gone. I had no interactions with Adam after that. Today, I wish I did. 
 
 … Did it ever come to your attention that Nancy was into shooting sports? 
 
 No. That shocked me.¬†I was absolutely shocked to hear that Nancy would have had anything to do with guns. I was stunned. 
 
 You own firearms? 
 
 Yes I do. 
 
 And you‚Äôve been an instructor on the range? 
 
 Yes. 
 
 You believe that shooting with Ryan and Adam was a mistake? 
 
 Yes, I do. 
 
 Even if they bonded?¬†She expressed to friends that it was a bonding experience. 
 
 No. 
 
 Why? 
 
 No. … I have a child who loves to do the hot-rod driving on race cars, and he‚Äôs just 16 years old. He’s got himself a wonderful, wonderful simulator on the TV. He‚Äôs playing the video games. … So the result is I should have been able to foresee that my son loved the speed, when I bought him his first car. And it wasn‚Äôt a couple of weeks after that that he got ticketed for 100-and-something miles per hour on a street in Newtown and I went well, OK, that was my mistake, because you play these games. 
 
 So what Adam had shown at that point early on [was] some high interest in the violent aspect of those games. 
 
 You know that firsthand? 
 
 I remember that he would opt to sit on the computer playing games like that than to go play DDR, which is Dance Dance Revolution. 
 
 You would remember what game he may have played? 
 
 The best of my recollection, and some people have said there are other games too, but it was World of Warcraft at that time. But again, these are simulators, and the more a person like him is playing these games, even a normal human being like yourself and I who are healthy would be desensitized towards the violence. A person in his situation would become involved to a much higher level, where they might act out, just as my son did on the racing game. 
 
 When it was observed that Adam in high school was playing violent video games, did anyone try to dissuade him? 
 
 A lot of kids were playing violent video games. But they‚Äôre healthy. Healthy kids. Adam was not a healthy child. ||||| Newtown Report 
 
 Monday’s report doesn’t conclusively name a reason for the shooting last December, but we know why Adam Lanza was at the elementary school: He wanted to shoot kids. 
 
 So maybe 20-year-old Adam Lanza was a kind of pedophile whose idea of having sex with kids was to shoot them. 
 
 A hint at that is in the report on the Sandy Hook Elementary School murders released on Monday by the Connecticut state attorney’s office in Danbury. 
 
 Among the items the report says detectives found in Lanza’s room were “materials regarding the topic of pedophilia and advocating for rights for pedophiles.” 
 
 The report adds, “Not child pornography.” 
 
 But maybe Lanza’s equivalent of kiddie porn was a five-second dramatization of children being shot that was found among this things at home. 
 
 He also had a POV video game called School Shooter that allows the player to gun down students with gruesome results. 
 
 In the game, the shooter wears fingerless black gloves, just like Dylan Klebold did at the Columbine High School massacre that the report says Lanza was fixated on. 
 
 Only Lanza went after much younger victims at Sandy Hook, a choice the report indicates cannot be easily explained by any particular unpleasant experience, real or imagined, that Lanza seems to have had when he was at student there. 
 
 In preschool before he arrived at Sandy Hook, Lanza is said by the report to have exhibited such worrisome signs as “repetitive behaviors, temper tantrums, smelling things that were not there, excessive hand washing and eating idiosyncrasies.” 
 
 But of his time at Sandy Hook, the report says: “The early school years have him portrayed as a nice kid, though sort of withdrawn. He loved music and played saxophone.” 
 
 “He would attend play groups and parties,” the report says. 
 
 The report—which calls Lanza “the shooter,” just like in his game—adds, “The shooter indicated that he loved the school and liked to go there.” 
 
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 One thing that seems notable in retrospect is the book Lanza made as part of a class project in the fifth grade. He titled it Big Book of Granny. The hero has a cane that is really a gun and uses it to shoot numerous people, children among them. 
 
 As he proceeded on to sixth grade and middle school, he was said by a teacher who was interviewed by the detectives to have gotten As and Bs, done his homework, and had at least some friends. He was never in any trouble of note. 
 
 The big change seems to have come in the seventh grade. A teacher described him as “intelligent but not normal?” He was said to have had “antisocial issues,” withdrawing and refusing to participate in class. He appeared to have a violent nature. His writing assignments were filled with “a disturbing level” of mayhem, war, and death. 
 
 During this same period, his mother, Nancy Lanza, noted that her son had given up sports and stopped riding his bike and climbing trees and playing the saxophone in the school band. He did join the tech club in high school and even had a LEN (pizza and computer games) party at his home. 
 
 And while he continued to write about violence, the report notes that he also wrote about “human nature, perception, judgment, morality, lack of control, prejudice, empathy, suicide, mental illness, existential crisis, urban exploration of abandoned areas, hiking and cookies.” He turned unexpectedly lyrical when he was asked to write a poem. 
 
 But school was becoming ever more a struggle, and he was becoming ever more withdrawn. The report waxes clinical as it says: “His school issues related to his identified emotional and/or Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) spectrum behaviors. His high level of anxiety, Asperger’s characteristics, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) concerns and sensory issues all impacted his performance to a significant degree, limiting his participation in a general education curriculum. Tutoring, desensitization and medication were recommended.” 
 
 The report goes on, “The shooter refused to take suggested medication and did not engage in suggested behavior therapies.” 
 
 He was extremely picky about what he ate and insisted that foods be arranged in a particular order on his plate. He would only eat certain things with certain utensils. He washed his hands again and again, just as he had in preschool, and he repeatedly changed clothes, leaving his mother to do his laundry every day. Nobody was allowed in his room, where the windows were covered with black garbage bags secured with duct tape. 
 
 Deliverymen were asked not to ring the doorbell lest the noise disturb him. He required others to open doors for him because he so abhorred touching the knobs or other metal objects. 
 
 “Often going through a box of tissues a day to avoid contact,” the report says. 
 
 He also did not like birthdays or holidays, and he refused to let his mother put up a Christmas tree, which she took as a sign that he lacked emotion. He did not like the family cat, so the mother gave it away. 
 
 “When the shooter had his hair cut, he did not like to be touched and did not like the sound of clippers, so they were not used much,” the report says. “He would sit with his hands in his lap and always look down, giving one-word answers if the cutter tried to engage him in conversation.” 
 
 The mother told people that because her son had Asperser’s he was unable to experience emotion. She asked him if he would feel badly if something happened to her. 
 
 “No,” he said. 
 
 He had a cell phone, but he neither made nor accepted calls, apparently using it only for emails and texts. He ceased speaking to his mother in person, communicating with her only by email even when they were both in the house. 
 
 Oddly, what he did venture out to do, what he apparently loved even more than School Shooter, was a game called Dance Dance Revolution. 
 
 From 2011 right up until his final month, he would play an arcade version in a local movie theater lobby on most Fridays and Saturdays, always wearing a specific outfit that featured a gray hoodie, staring at the video screen and moving his feet in time with the flashing lights for hours, showing no sign of fatigue until he was suddenly exhausted. 
 
 He kept videos of himself playing Dance Dance Revolution along with the video clip of school kids being shot. 
 
 He also had selfies that featured him holding a handgun to his head, holding a rifle to his head, and posing with a rifle and a shotgun, his pockets stuffed with 30-round magazines. 
 
 His mother was of the unfortunate opinion that firearms would teach him responsibility and give him confidence. She long been taking him to shooting ranges, and together they had taken the NRA gun safety course. She apparently tried to impart a little holiday spirit in him when she wrote him a check dated “Christmas Day” of 2012 and bearing the notation “CZ83,” meaning for a CZ83 pistol. 
 
 She remained an unshakably devoted mother and made sure to cook his favorite meals to get him through her absence as she embarked on December 10, 2012, for a three-day trip to see family in New Hampshire. He bumped his head before he left and it bled a bit, but she could not have taken it as a portent. He seemed fine when she departed. 
 
 He had bought himself a GPS, and investigators say it shows he drove in the vicinity of Sandy Hook Elementary School on the afternoon of December 13. His mother returned home around 10 p.m. that night. 
 
 She was in bed the next morning when Adam Lanza entered with the one kind of object he apparently had no trouble touching: a firearm. He placed a .22 caliber rifle to her head and curled his finger around the metal of the trigger four times. 
 
 “Someone in the area reported hearing ‘two or three’ gunshots in the neighborhood between 8:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m,” the report says. “That person thought them to be from hunters, though the person indicated the shots did ‘sound unusually close.”’ 
 
 Lanza then set off with a Bushmaster assault rifle, two pistols, and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, all of it having been purchased by his mother. He does not seem to have been propelled by some monstrous psychosis as had apparently driven the Washington Navy Yard shooter. 
 
 “It is important to note that it is unknown, what contribution, if any, the shooter’s mental health issues made to his attack,” the report says. “Those mental health professionals who saw him did not see anything that would have predicted his future behavior.” 
 
 But there is a suggestion of a blindness on the part of the investigators along with the mental health folks when the report says, “He was undoubtedly afflicted with mental health problems; yet despite a fascination with mass shootings and firearms, he displayed no aggressive or threatening tendencies.” 
 
 How can a fascination with mass shooting and firearms not be a predicator of somebody using a firearm to perpetrate a mass shooting? 
 
 A fascination with guns almost has to be sexual on some displaced and pathetic level—Freud was only wrong about women. And Lanza proved his predilection by his actions in the same way as any pedophile, by targeting children. 
 
 As the otherwise insightful report notes, he does not seem to have gone to the school seeking vengeance for some long-ago wrong. The report adds, “He was never assigned to the classrooms where the shootings occurred.” 
 
 He was there because he wanted to shoot kids. He began by killing the 47-year-old principal, Dawn Hochsprung and the 56-year-old school psychologist, Mary Sherlach, because they came into the hallway after he shot his way in through the locked front doors with eight rounds. 
 
 In Classroom 10, he began by shooting the teacher, Victoria Soto, to get her out of the way. Six-year-old Jesse Lewis was standing next to her and was apparently grazed in head by a bullet fragment, but he stayed on his feet, facing the gunman. Lanza was proceeding to do what he really wanted, to kill children, when the rifle jammed. 
 
 Jesse could have used this moment to try to save himself, but he was the kind of kid who always imagined himself a peacekeeper and protector when he played soldier, sometimes patrolling his family’s yard in a plastic helmet, other times arranging his toy troopers in the bathtub to protect the rubber duckies. His mother, Scarlett Lewis, would later note in her fine book, Nurturing Healing Love: A Mother’s Journey of Hope & Forgiveness, that he had inscribed “I love you” along with several hearts in the frost on the car door when he left for school that morning. He now called to nine children who were on the other side of the classroom, holding hands. 
 
 “Run!” he told them. 
 
 The others dashed out of the room to safety just as Lanza got the gun cleared. Lanza then shot Jesse in the forehead. Lanza also killed behavioral therapist Anne Marie Murphy, firing through her to kill the child she was trying to protect with her body in her own display of remarkable courage. Lanza killed three more youngsters there. 
 
 In Classroom 8, he killed the teacher, Lauren Rousseau, and her assistant, Rachel D’Avino, along with 15 youngsters, riddling them with bullets. Investigators recovered 80 spent shell casings from Classroom 8. 
 
 The 49 expended rifle shell casings back in Classroom 10 were joined by a single shell casing from a Glock semi-automatic pistol as Lanza placed it to his head just like in the selfies and took his own life as the first police officers arrived at the school. He was found to have 253 live rounds on his person. The rifle was found nearby, one end of the sling having become detached from the butt. The safety was set to “fire.” 
 
 As for the shooter, “He was wearing a pale green pocket vest over a black polo style short sleeve shirt over a black t-shirt. He had yellow colored earplugs in each ear. He was wearing black cargo pocket pants, black socks, black sneakers, a black canvas belt and black fingerless gloves on each hand.” 
 
 The gloves were just like those Dylan Klebold had worn at Columbine High School. The difference was that this was at an elementary school. 
 
 “The obvious question that remains is: ‘Why did the shooter murder twenty-seven people, including twenty children?’” the report says. “Unfortunately, that question may never be answered conclusively.” 
 
 One thing is for sure. The motive must have had something to do with the age of most of the victims.
– Frontline aired Part One of its special on Adam Lanza last night, and the tech club adviser who befriended Lanza said in an interview that the teen "had episodes" in which "he would completely withdraw." Richard Novia recounts one overnight trip when Lanza had such an episode: "He completely withdraws from the social activity that you’re involved with," Novia explains. "Will not communicate. Adam, what’s going on? No answer." It got so bad that Novia called mom Nancy Lanza to pick her son up. Novia thinks the episodes were triggered by any change from routine or "excitement." Crowds also put Lanza on edge, Novia recalls, and he tried to avoid them in the halls, which sometimes meant waiting til they passed and being late for class. But did Novia think Lanza was headed toward violence? "No. Not at that time," he says. "Not at that time he was not." Novia confirms that Lanza did, however, enjoy violent video games; he says Lanza's favorite was World of Warcraft. Frontline also obtained copies of emails Nancy Lanza sent to a close friend, including one in which she talks about her Green Beret brother teaching her how to defend herself.