{"id":18661,"date":"2012-12-17T15:39:09","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T20:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=18661"},"modified":"2012-12-17T15:39:09","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T20:39:09","slug":"more-troubling-details-emerge-about-sandy-hook-killer-adam-lanza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=18661","title":{"rendered":"More Troubling Details Emerge About Sandy Hook Killer Adam Lanza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SOUTHBURY, Conn. \u2014 At Newtown High School, <strong>Adam Lanza<\/strong> had trouble relating to fellow students and teachers, but that was only part of his problem. He seemed not to feel physical or emotional pain in the same way as classmates.<\/p>\n<p>Lanza is the gunman that killed 20 children and 6 adults before killing himself at a Connecticut elementary school on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Richard Novia<\/strong>, the school district\u2019s head of security until 2008, who also served as adviser for the school technology club, said <strong>Lanza<\/strong> clearly \u201chad some disabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf that boy would\u2019ve burned himself, he would not have known it or felt it physically,\u201d <strong>Novia<\/strong> said. \u201cIt was my job to pay close attention to that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novia<\/strong> was responsible for monitoring students as they used soldering tools and other potentially dangerous electrical equipment.<\/p>\n<p>He recalled meeting with school guidance counselors, administrators and with the boy\u2019s mother, <strong>Nancy Lanza<\/strong>, to understand his problems and find ways to ensure his safety. But there were other crises only a mother could solve.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe would have an episode, and she\u2019d have to return or come to the high school and deal with it,\u201d <strong>Novia<\/strong> said, describing how the young man would sometimes withdraw completely \u201cfrom whatever he was supposed to be doing,\u201d whether it was sitting in class or reading a book.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Adam Lanza<\/strong> \u201ccould take flight, which I think was the big issue, and it wasn\u2019t a rebellious or defiant thing,\u201d <strong>Novia<\/strong> said. \u201cIt was withdrawal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOUTHBURY, Conn. \u2014 At Newtown High School, Adam Lanza had trouble relating to fellow students and teachers, but that was only part of his problem. He seemed not to feel physical or emotional pain in the same way as classmates. Lanza is the gunman that killed 20 children and 6 adults before killing himself at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}