Newtown massacre search warrants released

Police tape seen outside the Lanza home in Newtown (Getty Images)

NEWTOWN, Conn.?Search warrant affidavits related to the Newtown school shootings were unsealed by judge in Danbury on Thursday, a little more than 100 days after Adam Lanza killed 26 people?including 20 children?at Sandy Hook Elementary School here before turning a gun on himself.

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The documents?dozens of pages of affidavits, warrants and items seized from the Newtown home Lanza, 20, shared with his mother, Nancy?paint a chilling picture of the killer in the weeks and months leading up to the Dec. 14 massacre.

Lanza in an undated photo (AP/File)

Lanza shot and killed his mother before driving to the school, shooting his way into the elementary school and opening fire.

Among the items seized by police at

Superior Court Judge John Blawie ordered parts of the documents redacted after state prosecutors requested that the identity of a key witness not be revealed for another 90 days. The judge also approved blacking out some phone numbers, credit card numbers and the serial numbers of some property confiscated from the Lanza home.

Connecticut State Police briefed family members of the Newtown shooting victims on Wednesday on what was recovered inside Lanza's home and car. About 50 family members attended the briefing, according to the Connecticut Post:

A few mothers cried, though most of the parents remained calm. After the more than two-hour session concluded, they left the Municipal Center alone or in small groups, escorted by state police troopers who kept reporters at a distance.

[Related: Images from Newtown, Dec. 14-21, 2012]

Thursday's release came after state lawmakers, media and Newtown residents criticized police officials for leaking details of their investigation at a convention of police chiefs in New Orleans, which were then published by the New York Daily News.

"If state police officers can leak details of the Newtown investigation at conventions, surely that information can be shared with the Connecticut public," the Hartford Courant said in an editorial. "It has more of a right to know than out-of-state police chiefs do. ... This isn't information to be hoarded and shared only at the state police water cooler. The longer information is kept under wraps, the more questions there will be about why. Most important, the details will inform the debate about gun control, mental health and violence in society. There's no reason to fear an informed public."

Connecticut's General Assembly has been considering gun-control legislation in the wake of the Newtown shootings, including a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines. State lawmakers said on Monday they would delay a vote on gun control until after search warrants related to the school shootings were unsealed.

The final police report on the massacre is not expected to be released until June.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/adam-lanza-newtown-search-warrants-released-131056789.html

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