Gunman’s brother questioned in Hoboken
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2012
BY SHAWN BOBURG, JOHN ENSSLIN AND RICHARD COWEN
STAFF WRITERS
THE RECORD
As the nation groped for clues as to what could possibly provoke a young man to fatally shoot his mother and 20 young children at the Connecticut elementary school where she was a teacher, attention centered Friday on the gunman’s family, whose low profile in upper-middle-class suburbs betrayed no easy answers.
The scrutiny reverberated to Hoboken, where the 24-year-old elder brother of the shooter — mistakenly identified by police as the gunman for hours on Friday — was taken into custody for questioning outside his apartment. By Friday night, police had offered no motive for 20-year-old Adam Lanza’s rampage in the quiet, upscale community of Newtown, Conn.
His older brother, Ryan Lanza, had been extremely cooperative during questioning late Friday by authorities in New Jersey, an unnamed law enforcement official who was briefed on the investigation told The Associated Press. Ryan Lanza is not believed to have any involvement and is not under arrest or in custody, but investigators were still searching his computers and phone records, said another official.
Ryan Lanza told law enforcement that his brother was believed to suffer from a personality disorder and lived with his mother in Connecticut, a third official added.
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