Another good reason for the trunk of the vehicle to have been ‘sealed’ immediately for the vehicle to be processed properly at the State’s crime laboratory for fingerprints and other clues. Once the trunk was opened on the car and it was ascertained that the trunk did not contain any obvious booby traps of any kind, the trunk should have been shut again very carefully, the trunk lid sealed by special evidence anti tamper tape across the trunk lid seal to the body, and indeed over the key opening, and the vehicle put on a flatbed and towed to the crime lab for extensive analysis.

My guess is that that was not done. But that’s exactly what should have been done when the police determined the car contained weapons not used in the shooting, obviously, least not at the SCHOOL. That car would have gone to the central crime lab there in Hartford for processing, not mucked with on location by morons.

 

Wayne Carver Medical Examiner

Carver is accompanied by Connecticut State Police Lieutenant H. Paul Vance and additional Connecticut State Police personnel. The reporters are off-screen and thus unidentified so I have assigned them simple numerical identification based on what can be discerned of their voices”:

Reporter #1: So the rifle was the primary weapon?
H. Wayne Carver: Yes.
Reporter #1: [Inaudible]
Carver: Uh (pause). Question was what caliber were these bullets. And I know—I probably know more about firearms than most pathologists but if I say it in court they yell at me and don’t make me answer [sic]—so [nervous laughter]. I’ll let the police do that for you.
Reporter #2: Doctor can you tell us about the nature of the wounds. Were they at very close range? Were the children shot at from across the room?
Carver: Uhm, I only did seven of the autopsies. The victims I had ranged from three to eleven wounds apiece and I only saw two of them with close range shooting. Uh, but that’s, uh y’know, a sample. Uh, I really don’t have detailed information on the rest of the injuries.
[Given that Carver is Connecticut’s top coroner and in charge of the entire postmortem this is a startling admission.-JT]
Reporter #3: But you said that the long rifle was used?
Carver: Yes.
Reporter #3: But the long rifle was discovered in the car.
State Police Lieutenant Vance: That’s not correct, sir.
Unidentified reporter #4: How many bullets or bullet fragments did you find in the autopsy. Can you tell us that?
Carver: Oh. I’m lucky I can tell you how many I found. I don’t know. There were lots of them, OK? This type of weapon is not, uh … the bullets are designed in such a fashion that the energy—this is very clinical. I shouldn’t be saying this. But the energy is deposited in the tissue so the bullet stays in [the tissue].

 

How Did the Gunman Fire so Many Shots in Such Little Time?

According to Dr. Carver and State Police, Lanza shot each victim between 3 and 11 times during a 5 to 7 minute span. If one is to average this out to 7 bullets per individual—excluding misses—Lanza shot 182 times, or once every two seconds. Yet according to the official story Lanza was the sole assassin and armed with only one weapon. Thus if misses and changing the gun’s 30-shot magazine at least 6 times are added to the equation Lanza must have been averaging about one shot per second—extremely skilled use of a single firearm for a young man with absolutely no military training and who was on the verge of being institutionalized. Still, an accurate rendering of the event is even more difficult to arrive at because the chief medical examiner admittedly has no idea exactly how the children were shot or whether a struggle ensued.

Why Were Medical Personnel Turned Away From the Crime Scene?

Oddly enough medical personnel are forced to set up their operation not at the school where the dead and injured lay, but rather at the fire station several hundred feet away. This flies in the face of standard medical operating procedure where personnel are situated as close to the scene as possible. There is no doubt that the school had ample room to accommodate such personnel. Yet medical responders who rushed to Sandy Hook Elementary upon receiving word of the tragedy were denied entry to the school and forced to set up primary and secondary triages off school grounds and wait for the injured to be brought to them.

Shortly after the shooting “as other ambulances from neighboring communities rolled up, sirens blaring, the first responders slowly realized that their training would be tragically underutilized on this horrible day. ‘You may not be able to save everybody, but you damn well try,’” 44 year old emergency medical technician James Wolff told NBC News. “And when (we) didn’t have the opportunity to put our skills into action, it’s difficult.’

In light of this, who were the qualified medical practitioners pronounced the 20 children and 7 adults dead? Who decided that none could be revived? Carver and his staff are apparently the only medical personnel to have attended to the victims—yet this was in the postmortem conducted several hours later. Such slipshod handling of the crime scene leaves the State of Connecticut open to a potential array of hefty civil claims by families of the slain.

Conclusion

Friday’s mass killing is the latest in a long series of such incidents. The United States has historically seen repeated outbursts of violence. Yet the past two decades have been unusual, even by American standards. The frequency and scale of mass killings point to an underlying cause.

Lastly I would like to say that it is a tragedy for anyone to be gunned down and in this case innocent children attending school, a place where you should be safe,  and for the families and children who attend the school this is very disturbing and in no means do I think that writing this proves that this event did not take place. I myself am looking for answers as to why something like this is a recurring theme in America.

The following is a list of the victims,  may they never be forgotten.

The children listed as victims of the shooting in Newtown have been officially identified. Of the 20 children killed in the school rampage, eight were boys and 12 were girls. Four were born in 2005. The remaining 16 were born in 2006.

Their names and birthdates are:

Charlotte Bacon, 2/22/2006
Daniel Barden, 9/25/2005
Olivia Engel, 7/18/2006
Josephine Gay, 12/11/2005
Ana M Marquez-Greene, 4/4/2006
Dylan Hockley, 3/8/2006
Madeleine F Hsu, 7/10/2006
Catherine V Hubbard – 6/8/2006
Chase Kowalski, 10/31/2005
Jesse Lewis, 6/30/2006
James Mattioli, 3/22/2006
Grace McDonnell, 11/4/2005
Emilie Parker, 5/12/2006
Jack Pinto, 5/6/2006
Noah Pozner, 11/20/2006
Caroline Previdi, 9/7/2006
Jessica Rekos, 5/10/2006
Avielle Richman, 10/17/2006
Benjamin Wheeler, 9/12/2006
Allison N Wyatt, 7/3/2006

Adults listed as Sandy Hook Elementary victims were identified as well:

Rachel Davino, 7/17/1983
Dawn Hochsprung, 6/28/1965
Anne Marie Murphy, 7/25/1960
Lauren Russeau,  6/8/1982
Mary Sherlach, 2/11/1956
Victoria Soto, 11/04/1985

Of those killed, all were women and children, and all first-grade students aside from female Sandy Hook Elementary School staffers. The name of the alleged shooter, believed to be Adam Lanza, 20, did not appear on the list of dead. A Connecticut State Police spokesman said that until the shooter is positively identified, law enforcement officials would not be releasing a name for the gunman.

Another notable absence on the list of Newtown shooting victims was that of Nancy Lanza, mother of suspected shooter Adam Lanza. Connecticut State Police have since confirmed that no connection exists between Nancy Lanza and Sandy Hook Elementary, and that she was not a teacher at the school as was widely reported yesterday.