NEWTOWN, Conn. — Connecticut's governor says the elementary school gunman committed suicide when he heard first responders coming.
Speaking on ABC's "This Week," Gov. Dannel Malloy said Adam Lanza shot himself as police entered Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Malloy's comments raise the possibility that Lanza had planned an even larger, more gruesome massacre.
Malloy also reiterated that Lanza shot his way into the locked school.
"He used a weapon to open up the glass and then walked in," he said. "He discharged to make an opening and then went through it, went to the first classroom, as you know, went to the second classroom."
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Adam Lanza in a 2008 school yearbook from Newtown High School
"We surmise that it was during the second classroom episode that he heard responders coming and apparently at that, decided to take his own life," Malloy said.
Malloy offered no possible motive for the shooting and a law enforcement official has said police have found no letters or diaries left behind that could shed light on it.
Meanwhile, two senators are calling for a national commission to examine mass shootings in the United States, while a colleague says she's pushing to ban the sale of military-style assault weapons.
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The proposals are among the first to come from Congress in the wake of Friday's school shooting in Newtown, Conn. One of the most deadly school shootings in US history left 20 kids, all six or seven years old, and eight adults dead, including Adam Lanza and his mother, Nancy.
Sen. Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut independent, tells "Fox News Sunday" that a national commission could be used to scrutinize the nation's gun laws, mental health system and the role that violent video games and movies might play in shootings.
Also on Fox, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., agreed and said it's the nation reflected in a "thoughtful way."
Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California tells NBC's "Meet the Press" that she'll revive her plan to ban new assault weapons.
President Obama will visit Newtown tonight to meet with families of the victims and speak at a vigil.
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Yesterday, it was revealed that Adam's mother took her shy son to shooting ranges.
“She’d take them to the range a lot . . . Nancy was an enthusiast — so much so that she wanted to pass it on to her kids,” said her former landscaper and occasional drinking buddy Dan Holmes.
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