Adam Lanza hated his mother he shot dead because he thought 'she loved the students at Sandy Hook more than him'

Connecticut State police released their final report on the Sandy Hook tragedy comprising of several thousand pages on Friday

One witness cited in the report told police that Adam Lanza hated his mother because he believed she loved her students more than him

Nancy Lanza volunteered at Sandy Hook Elementary School from 1998 to 2012, including periods when Adam was a student



Adam Lanza shot dead his mother while she was sleeping in her bed the morning of December 14, 2012

He then moved on to the school where he killed 6 staff members and 20 first-grade students before committing suicide



Adam Lanza hated his volunteer-teacher mother because he believed she loved her first-grade students more than him, police reports released yesterday revealed.



Lanza's mother Nancy volunteered at Sandy Hook Elementary School from 1998 to 2012 and according to one unidentified witness, her mentally-disturbed son was jealous of her students.



'Lanza apparently felt that his mother loved the students more than him,' the witness said.

The new account was revealed yesterday, as state police released their final report on the shooting investigation - amounting to thousands of pages of reports, crime scene photographs of the school and Lanza home as well 911 calls and chilling video.

The report also revealed the extent of Lanza's medical illness with several witnesses speaking of an early fascination with destruction and violence.

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Jealous: One witness told police that Adam Lanza hated his mother since he believed she loved her students at Sandy Hook more than him. The new account was released in the Connecticut State Police's final report on the massacre. Above, Nancy Lanza (left) and son Adam (right)

The final police report on the Sandy Hook school shooting revealed a photograph of an unknown boy as a baby dressed in camouflage gear and gnawing on a gun

In cold blood: Lanza killed his mother while she slept in her bed on the morning of December 14, 2012. Above, a rifle lying on the floor of a bedroom in their Connecticut home

Rampage: After shooting his mother, Lanza drove to Sandy Hook Elementary School where he proceeded to kill 6 staff and 20 first-grade students A thank you card and Stepping Up Ceremony pamphlet for Sandy Hook School were found in Nancy Lanza's home. She had volunteered at the school when her son was a pupil there

The report traced the weeks leading up to the shooting, when Adam seemed to become more and more unhinged. Two weeks before the shooting, Mrs Lanza confessed to a friend that her son was becoming increasingly despondent and had was put 'over the edge' when their house lost power during Hurricane Sandy.

Another friend told investigators that Mrs Lanza texted him a few days before the shooting to say her son had bumped his head and they were 'dealing with blood'.

ITEMS SEIZED FROM LANZA'S HOME

A Christmas check from Lanza's mother to the shooter to purchase a firearm

N ew York Times article from February 18, 2008, on the Northern Illinois University shooting

Photocopied newspaper articles from 1891 about a school shooting

Computer game titled School Shooting, where the player controls a character who

enters a school and shoots at students

Videos of Lanza playing Dance Dance Revolution

I mages of Lanza holding a handgun and a rifle to his head

A document showing the prerequisites for a mass murder spreadsheet

Spreadsheet listing mass murders



Large amount of materials relating to Columbine shootings



Images of hamsters and Lego creations The day before the shooting she had stayed two days at a New Hampshire hotel as part of an experiment in letting her son stay home alone and be independent. She was shot four times in the head by her son the morning after she returned. The rifle used to kill her was found by police next to her bed. Lanza then went to the Sandy Hook Elementary school where he shot dead 20 first-graders and six educators with a semi-automatic rifle on December 14, 2012, before shooting himself. Among other disturbing elements of evidence to be revealed from a summary report last month, was the fact that in the fifth grade, Lanza wrote The Big Book of Granny, in which the main character has a gun in her cane and shoots people, and another character talks of liking to hurt people, especially children. The book was among items seized from Lanza's home, but there was no indication he ever handed in the book at school. One of Lanza's former teachers told investigators that when asked to do creative writing at school he would write disturbing accounts. 'Adam would write ten pages, obsessing over battles, destruction and war,' the teacher said, according to the report. His work was 'so graphic that it could not be shared.' Lanza was also obsessed with the 1999 shooting at Columbine High in Colorado and other mass killings, the report said. The report also said that in 2005, Lanza was diagnosed with Asperger's disorder - an autism-like condition that is not associated with violence - and that he lacked empathy for others and behaved strangely. A box of family photos was included in the stacks of evidence A bedroom from the home of Nancy Lanza and her son Adam in Newtown, Connecticut

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Nobody was allowed into his room, not even to clean, according to the report. It said Lanza also disliked birthdays, Christmas and holidays and did not like to have his hair cut.

He also wouldn't touch doorknobs, his food had to be arranged on the plate in a certain way, and he changed clothes often during the day.

He was a loner at school and was repelled by crowds and loud noises.

Prosecutors issued a summary of the investigation last month that portrayed Lanza as obsessed with mass murders but the report concluded that Lanza's motives for the massacre might never be known.

Lanza 'was undoubtedly afflicted with mental health problems; yet despite a fascination with mass shootings and firearms, he displayed no aggressive or threatening tendencies', it said.

His mother had said during a lunch with friends just before the shooting that she never 'felt in any personal danger living with Adam'.

During the lunch she had said she was planning on leaving Newtown, and continuing to care for Lanza, perhaps in North Carolina or Washington state.

Books about dealing with autism were found at the family's home and a nurse who met Lanza four times in 2006 and 2007 had prescribed him anti-anxiety medication.

The nurse said in her police interview that Lanza had been diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder and was 'emotionally paralyzed', changing his socks 20 times a day.

Despite this his mother had stopped giving him the medication and failed to schedule follow up visits.

A photo released by the Connecticut State Police shows what the evidence report describes as a view of a second floor bathroom and its contents including a photo identification of Adam Lanza and a cellular phone with battery removed

Old newspaper clippings and a copy of Amish Grace, about a 2006 school shooting, was also found in the Lanza home

Books about Asperger syndrome, which Lanza had, were found in one of the bedrooms of the family home Pictures believed to have been drawn by Lanza were also found in the family home.

Another interesting piece of evidence was a birthday card send to Adam by his father, Peter, which read: 'Adam, Happy Birthday - Send me an email when you want to go hiking or shooting. Love, Dad.'

Other photos and files showed that police found a stock of knives at the home and instruction manuals for the guns.

In one chilling image, a wooden bed frame sits without the mattress above a row of women's shoes.

It is known that Lanza shot dead his mother Nancy Lanza while she lay in bed before taking off on his rampage at the school.

Investigators reported that the windows of his second-floor room had been taped over with black trash bags.

One of the drawings found inside Adam Lanza's home

A birthday card to Adam Lanza from his father which reads: 'Adam, Happy Birthday - Send me an email when you want to go hiking or shooting. Love, Dad' The front of the birthday card that Peter Lanza sent to his son Adam and was found at the gunman's home

First part of the murder scene: FBI officials questioned Nancy at her Newtown home in 2004, and that is the same home where Adam shot and killed her eight years later before going to the elementary school

Shoe rack on a staircase leading to the garage at the Lanza home

The garage from the Lanza home in a photograph which made up stacks of evidence images compiled by the Connecticut police

The living room inside the home of Adam Lanza, the gunman who killed 20 children and six adults at the Sandy Hook elementary school last December before taking his own life

Inside the home of Lanza where the windows had been blocked out

The kitchen in the Lanza home, taken in police evidence photos

Damaged hard drive, dumbbell weight and an empty packet of ear plugs from the Lanza house A bathroom at the Lanza home where an evidence marker sits on top of the taps

The front door of the Lanza home which police scrutinized for evidence following the mass shooting

The dining room from the Lanza home where the gunman lived with his mother Nancy

Windows on a computer room on the same floor had also been covered over. Police found a hard drive in that room that was so badly damaged that forensic experts doubt they will ever be able to recover the information.

Spreadsheets about mass killings were also found, which listed information about each case, and police found handwritten notes listing the addresses of local gun shops.

A GPS taken from the Lanza home showed a number of trips made between the family's house and schools in the area, according to documents released last month.

Other photographs of the home Lanza shared with his mother show numerous rounds of ammunition, gun magazines, shot-up paper targets, gun cases, shooting earplugs and a gun safe with a rifle in it.

In another of the evidence photos a stuffed teddy bear sits incongruously atop a gun storage closet.

Piles of clothing and piled up furniture fills the Lanza home

Warning signs: Lanza holed himself up in his room in the house he shared with his mother and blacked out the windows