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The FBI has released about 175 pages of heavily blacked-out documents from the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre investigation. Of the 175 pages released in response to a Courant Freedom of Information request, 64 were completely redacted and most of the other 111 pages were heavily redacted. The Courant submitted the request in January after state police released a report on the Dec. 14, 2012, shooting that left 20 first-graders and six women dead at the Newtown school. The names of all witnesses interviewed by federal agents have been removed and there are no references to attempts by federal authorities in Washington, D.C. , to recover information from a computer disk that shooter Adam Lanza destroyed. Read more: here

It took police about 4 minutes after the first 911 call at 9:35 a.m. Dec. 14, 2012, to arrive at the scene of Sandy Hook Elementary School, and Adam Lanza is believed to have killed himself about a minute after they arrived on scene. Police waited another five minutes before entering the building, where they found 20 children and six educators dead from Lanza’s gunfire and two more educators injured. Police were in part distracted by the scene outside, which included encountering an “unknown male running” along the east side of the school with “something in his hand.” The timeline is detailed in a long-awaited report released by the state’s attorney’s office in Danbury on Monday. Read more: here

Newtown officials violated state law when they refused to release tapes of 911 calls made during the attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School , a Freedom of Information Commission lawyer has ruled in a preliminary report that chastised both Newtown police and state prosecutors. Kathleen K. Ross, a hearing officer with the commission, said Newtown police offered little evidence supporting their contention that the tapes were exempt from release under the state's Freedom of Information laws. Instead, she wrote, the police department merely deferred to state prosecutors, who instructed Newtown to withhold the tapes because they related to an ongoing investigation. Read more: here