Adam Lanza’s Body Claimed for Burial

Spokeswoman for the Connecticut coroner will not say who claimed the body

Nearly half a month after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., an unidentified person has claimed the shooter’s body for burial, the New York Times is reporting. A spokeswoman for the Connecticut chief medical examiner’s office declined on Sunday to identify the person who claimed 20-year-old shooter Adam Lanza’s body. Family members for Lanza were not reachable on Sunday night. A funeral service for Lanza’s mother, Nancy, whom he shot in the head while she slept, before carrying out the massacre at Sandy Hook on Dec. 14, took place days after the shooting. Adam Lanza fatally shot 20 school children and six adults before turning the gun on himself. The massacre sparked international mourning and reignited a serious debate over stricter gun control in the U.S. (NY Times)

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