Loop 411: 2012 in Review [Pt. 2]

Here's what we were talking about this year.

Go here to see part 1 of the Loop 21 Year in Review!

What did you think was the biggest story of 2012? Tell us in the comments!

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Conn. Shooter Thought Mom Loved Students More: Neighbor

Adam Lanza also angry because mother wanted to commit him, Newtown resident says

The man who shot his mother before going on a rampage at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school, killing 20 children and six educators before killing himself, thought his mom loved students she cared for more than him, a neighbor says. Joshua Flashman, 25, of Newtown, says Nancy Lanza, the mother of Sandy Hook Elementary School gunman Adam Lanza, sometimes worked with kindergartners at the school as a volunteer. In addition, Flashman says that Adam Lanza, 20, also was angry that his mother was taking him to see a psychiatrist and wanted to have him involuntarily committed. Flashman's account to media outlets and investigators may prove to be the elusive motive in the Dec. 14 massacre that has outraged the nation and led to calls for tougher and more comprehensive gun control. (NewsOne)

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Some of the Deadliest Mass Shootings Around the World

Aug. 5, 2012: Army veteran Wade Michael Page kills five men and one woman and wounds three other people, including a police officer, before taking his own life at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin outside Milwaukee.

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Photos chronicling some of the world's worst massacres

The shooting deaths of 20 children and 6 adults by a gunman at a Connecticut elementary school Friday, who also killed a seventh adult at a second location, comprise the second-worst mass school shooting in U.S. history and is among the world's worst mass shootings. Here is a gallery of earlier examples of the kind of terror and tragedy madmen have wrought around the world throughout the last four decades:

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