Ryan Lanza is seen being led away from his Hoboken home in New Jersey to be questioned by police over this moing's shooting
Ryan Lanza is escorted to a car outside his home in Hoboken by law enforcement in connection with an elementary school shooting this moing
Students described being ushered from their classrooms hand-in-hand, with their eyes closed, to the safety of a nearby fire station as police converged on the school.
Adam's brother Ryan, 24, who was originally thought to have been the shooter, is being questioned by police after he was arrested at his home in Hoboken, New Jersey.
He was on a bus on his way home from work when he was being named as the gunman and posted on Facebook that it wasn't him.
He told a friend he believed his mentally disabled brother did it. Adam is believed to be autistic.
Another relative told ABC Adam had been 'obviously not well' and Beth Israel, tonight tweeted that her daughter went to school with him and he was 'troubled for a long time'.
Alex Israel spoke to CNN about how she went to school with Adam and she described him as fidgety, and a quiet loner who kept to himself.
She also said he was a highly intelligent student, 'above the rest of us'.
But she said he was never violent.
She tweeted earlier in the day that he was 'crazy'.
The gunman's father Peter Lanza, who is divorced from his wife, lives in Stamford, Connecticut, and declined to comment this evening after police performed a welfare check on him.
Neighbors said he recently remarried.
Mr Lanza leaed of the tragic and senseless massacre by reporters who had flocked to his home.
He arrived shortly after police left and asked what the problem was.
The Stamford Connecticut said his expression shifted from patient to surprise to horror.
Newtown was once named one of the safest places to live in America and before this moing, there had been one murder in a decade.
The President addressed a stunned nation five hours after the shooting and openly wept as he spoke of the mindless shooting saying: 'Our hearts are broken today.'
Seldom has a head of state expressed greater public emotion in mode times.
Obama struggled for words, pausing several times as he wiped away tears saying, 'This evening, Michelle and I will...hug our children a little tighter, and we'll tell them that we love them.'
Lanza is believed to have shot himself at the scene, according to the New York Times.
Alex Israel described her former classmate Adam Lanza as crazy
Beth Israel tweeted that shooter Adam Lanza was troubled for a long time
Jacob Wycoff also tweeted that Adam was autistic
He was carrying three weapons including two handguns and a rifle and was wearing a bullet-proof vest, a mask and black military gear.
Three guns were found at the scene - a Glock and a Sig Sauer, both pistols - and a .223-caliber rifle.
The rifle was recovered from the back of a car at the school. The two pistols were recovered from inside the school. They were legally registered to Nancy Lanza.
A number of children were found hiding in closets in the school five hours after the shooting.
One mother told CBS that her child said there were bullets 'whizzing by' him in the hallway and that a teacher pulled him into a classroom. It was said to have been like a 'war zone'.
Speaking inside the St Rose of Lima church in Newtown tonight, Goveor of Connecticut Dan Malloy said: 'In the coming days and in the coming weeks, I will pray that you all embrace one another that you lift one another up, that you understand the difficulties that you collectively will undergo.
'Keep in your prayers the children who lost their lives today, keep in your prayers the adults who lost their lives today.'
Mayor Bloomberg said tonight that immediate action must be taken over gun laws in the U.S.
He said: 'We heard after Columbine that it was too soon to talk about gun laws. We heard it after Virginia Tech. After Tucson and Aurora and Oak Creek. And now we are hearing it again.
'For every day we wait, 34 more people are murdered with guns. Today, many of them were five-year olds. President Obama rightly sent his heartfelt condolences to the families in Newtown.
'But the country needs him to send a bill to Congress to fix this problem. Calling for ‘meaningful action’ is not enough. We need immediate action.'
Ryan Lanza, brother of Sandy Hook Elementary mass shooting suspect Adam Lanza, is seen being led away by cops, left, and in photos pulled from his Facebook page, right
A couple comfort each other after the mass shooting, left, and Principal Dawn Hochsprung, right, is one of the 26 who were shot dead at the school
Music teacher Maryrose Kristopik, circled, has been hailed a hero after taking 15 children and putting them in a closet, undoubtedly saving their lives
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