NEWTOWN, Conn. — Connecticut's governor says the elementary school gunman committed suicide when he heard first responders coming.
Speaking on ABC's "This Week," Gov. Dannel Malloy said Adam Lanza shot himself as police entered Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Malloy's comments raise the possibility that Lanza had planned an even larger, more gruesome massacre.
Malloy also reiterated that Lanza shot his way into the locked school.
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"He used a weapon to open up the glass and then walked in," he said. "He discharged to make an opening and then went through it, went to the first classroom, as you know, went to the second classroom."
"We surmise that it was during the second classroom episode that he heard responders coming and apparently at that, decided to take his own life," Malloy said.
Malloy offered no possible motive for the shooting and a law enforcement official has said police have found no letters or diaries left behind that could shed light on it.
Later this morning, Connecticut state police Lt. Paul Vance told members of the media he was "confident" that police will be able to "answer every question possible" after their investigation is complete.
He added that the bodies of the victims are already being released to their parents.
A funeral for one of the children, 6-year-old Noah Pozner, is being planned for Monday.
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Vance also said he hopes the Connecticut state police will be able to provide full information later this afternoon on the last two fatal victims of Lanza's rampage, noting that the shooter had four firearms with him, one more than the number of weapons he was originally believed to have.
Newtown police Lt. George Sinko said that school officials will determine what happens but that he thinks it will be very difficult for the children to return to Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown.
But he says authorities want to keep the children together because the survivors "need to support each other."
Vance also took a harsh tone towards people pretending to be the shooter or otherwise spreading misinformation, including threatening and inaccurate details, about the case on social media.
Anyone perpetrating misinformation on social media "could be arrested and prosecuted under federal law," Vance said.
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