Father of the Newton, Connecticut school shooter Adams Lanza finally speaks out after his son shot twenty children, six teachers including his own mother, and himself  December 20, 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary. During Peter Lanza’s first interview he tells reporters that his son couldn’t “get more evil.” He even states that he wishes his son never had been born.

            Lanza believes that Adam possibly would have killed him given the chance considering Lanza hadn’t seen Adam for the two years leading up to the shooting. Since Peter divorced Nancy Lanza in 2009, he tried maintaining contact with his son but was informed by his former wife through an email that Adam did not want to see him. Peter even considered hiring private investigator so that he could maybe just bump into him.

In Adam’s early years he was a normal happy boy who loved being active and playing legos with his father. At age 13 Adam started acting different from his normal happy self when his psychiatrist diagnosed him with Asperger’s syndrome. From then on he was became a completely different person.

“Adam’s social awkwardness, anxiety, reduced eye contact, the awkward walk. You could see the changes occurring,” says Lanza.  Since the shooting, Adam’s father has searched psychiatric literature on mass killers to try to understand what happened.  He has even met with some of the victims families to not just apologize but find some stable ground to the shock of what his son had done.