It has been loosely accepted, by those who believe there was an altercation December 13th, that three of the four Sandy Hook staff members involved were killed the next day; the fourth survived by staying home.
But at least one report says only two of those involved in the December 13th incident were killed, and a third was wounded--Natalie Hammond.
"Police also investigated whether Lanza was the person who had been in an altercation with four staff members at Sandy Hook School the day before the massacre. It was presumed that he [or whoever it really was] killed two of the four staff members involved in the altercation (the principal and the psychologist) and wounded the third (the lead teacher) in the attack; the fourth staff member was not at the school that day. The Connecticut State Police stated that they did not know of any reports about any altercations at the school." [However, NBC News was told by several law enforcement officers/officials that both Newtown and State police were interviewing the woman who stayed home. Why else would she be interviewed?]
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I just listened to an interview with a colleague of Natalie Hammond that describes a shooter killing Hochsprung and Sherlach, then trying to kill Hammond. The shooter seemed absolutely determined to kill Hammond in fact, by some accounts firing angrily through the door as she slammed and held it shut with her weight. According to some reports, she received multiple gunshot wounds through the door.
The shooters don't seem to be targeting kids at all, initially, and not even all adults; a shooter allegedly looked into the secretary's office, saw Sally Cox, and moved on. He didn't move on to kill children--he continued to chase down adults--possibly specific adults.
This doesn't really sound like a school shooting--it sounds more like a workplace shooting. It sounds like the evolution of a bitter, ongoing argument between specific adults.
If indeed the shooter(s) were determined to kill Natalie Hammond that day, but she survived the first attempt, it is conceivable they would chase her down to Danbury. I still think it's an odd concept, but it is supported by police audio traffic indicating police thought wounded victims were going to be hunted down in the hospitals.
Unless they had information that shooters were targeting specific individuals, would police really assume that shooters who had just successfully escaped a crime scene were now hunting down the wounded in hospitals? It strains credulity.
Between the altercation, and mounting evidence of the targeting of specific individuals, the horrifying question comes to mind as to whether the children were killed (if they were) out of sheer rage when the shooters failed to kill their intended adult targets.
It would be an awful irony if the children's rooms were more vulnerable than whatever rooms the adults successfully hid in. If, for example, the conference room door with its button lock (described by Hammond's colleague) kept the adults safe inside the meeting room, while faulty or inaccessible locks on classroom doors allowed shooters to enter and take revenge on students, that reality could generate the kind of heavy guilt might make people inclined to desperately omit, shape, or even fabricate parts of the story.
Were children really pulled into the conference room, saved as Hammond pressed her body against the door to hold it shut, the shooter then firing through the door and hitting her multiple times?
Or, as some reports say, was Hammond actually shot in the hall, then managed to make it to a room that had a decently and quickly locking door? Were the children added to the conference room scenario to make it seem less cut and dry that only adults survived safe behind easily-locked doors, while children in classrooms were dying behind hard-to-lock doors?
Was there really a meeting taking place which conveniently puts three of four of the killed and wounded teachers in one place and makes their collective deaths/injuries seem random? Or did shooters actually go around targeting them, specifically, with the "meeting" conjured as a way to cover this up?
One could suggest the shooters were targeting all adults in the facility--except for the fact that 1) shooters bypassed Sally Cox and 2) police are clearly agitated about protecting Natalie Hammond and/or Deborah Pisani from continued shooting (and identification), yet don't seem worried about protecting other teachers and staff in this way.
At any rate, several more pieces fall into place if in fact Natalie Hammond was one of the people with whom the December 13th altercation allegedly took place.
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