everyone knows everyone else and there is a wait and see now to find out who among them are among the victims. bill. indeed there is. thank you. molly line, about ten miles from our location right near the school here in newtown, connecticut. thank you for that report. i met a young girl earlier today. she said it s her birthday today. she turned 11 years old and she asked her mother if this will be her own 9-11. there is so much confusion, as you can imagine, as people sort through this. we are learning, by the way, more tonight about the family of the suspected shooter. harris faulkner spoke with a source close to them. she s live in our studios in new york and good evening to you. good evening. as we ve been saying for the first three hours of reporting on this story today, we were being told by authorities a man in his 20s named ryan lanza was the shooter and was dead. tonight, of course, we know and have told you his younger brother, adam, is the one who is dead, suspected of
out and here we are tonight trying to piece this together. police in hoboken, new jersey, say that they are talking and questioning the suspected gunman s brother, as rick was talking about. and two people who might be his roommates in new jersey. hoboken right across the hudson river from manhattan in new york city. you might remember seeing pictures of it under water after super storm sandy. anna kooiman is live in hoboken. what are you figuring out about the scene and what it s like behind you there? bill, yes, we re piecing things together just as you are. the building behind us apparently, the apartment home of the brother of the shooter, 24-year-old ryan lanza, as well as two other people. the building is still roped off with police tape. we got on the scene about 4:30 this afternoon and we counted about ten f.b.i. agents and hoboken police here. they did begin wrapping things up shortly after. but earlier today, a very different scene. chaos and confusion, which may have been
them. not one picture of his family inside his college room. no mention of his brother, adam. it seemed as though ryan s parents were divorced, but few people were sure about that. in fact, i can say that they are divorced. the dad, peter lanza, lives not far from the scene in connecticut. we re told he s still talking with f.b.i. agents, but not suspected of having any role in what played out today. bill? hair i thank you for that. we ll be in touch later this hour. harris faulkner report not guilty new york. average class size in this school district for kids in kindergarten, 17. the last serious crime reported in this town? two years ago. 2010. much more ahead. massacre at sandy hook, including all this developing information about the suspect and certainly about the victims tonight. a live look outside saint rose church in newtown where members of this community are gathering for a memorial service, just getting underway to remember the
father is with federal authorities in new jersey and is being questioned by the f.b.i. and other authorities in new jersey, along with the brother, ryan lanza, who earlier today was being identified as the shooter. apparently there was confusion because adam lanza, may have been carrying his brother s i.d that may have led them to the brother s apartment in hoboken. that s where they found the brother, ryan, questioned him. i m told he is being cooperative. his girlfriend being cooperative as well. and the father has been described as being cooperative, too. there are some reports that the family hasn t really spoken with adam much lately. we can t confirm that. what i can tell you is that the father and the brother are being questioned by the f.b.i any insight they may be able to give to adam s mental state obviously would be valuable in this investigation. bill. bill: yeah. absolutely critical. you re right about that. you have to think that investigators go immediately to
information we received from a reliable federal source that ryan lanza s i.d. ended up on adam lanza. that federal source also telling us that earlier this afternoon when ryan lanza pulled up to this apartment building with his girlfriend, he noticed police surrounding it. that s when he was cuffed and taken away apparently. he and his girlfriend both speaking with the f.b.i. and also cooperating with them. there had been reports that the girlfriend was missing. that apparently not the case. also some preliminary reports that somebody was dead inside this building. that not the case, from everything that we re hearing. we ve even heard it was possibly the father. again, as rick leventhal mentioned, that federal source telling us that the father is speaking with the f.b.i. here in new jersey, bill. bill: you can imagine, too, we re trying to figure out what is fact and what is frankly not facts. hoboken a crowded community and there are a lot of neighbors there. how are they react to