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Police: Sandy Hook gunman had compiled ‘doctoral thesis’ of mass shootings

The 20-year-old man behind the mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut kept a database and “score sheet” of similar crimes as part of a plan to achieve greater levels of violence, CBS News reported on Monday. Police said Adam Lanza, who killed 26 people in the December 2012 attack on Sandy…

Adam Lanza wanted to kill more people than Anders Breivik: report

Undisclosed law enforcement sources told CBS News on Monday that Adam Lanza shot children at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut after being inspired by Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik. Lanza thought he was in competition with Breivik, a rightwing extremist who killed 77 people in 2011. Breivik said he…

Man sets himself on fire outside Norway killer’s trial

An unidentified man set himself on fire Tuesday outside a courthouse in Oslo, Norway, where mass murderer Anders Breivik is on trial, leaving police insisting the bizarre self immolation was an act of a seriously disturbed individual and had nothing to do with Breivik. In a shocking video published to…

Norway killer says ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2′ played key role in training

Anders Breivik, the admitted mass murderer in Norway who slaughtered 69 people amid a sudden attack and bombing last year, said in court Thursday that he played Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 to sharpen his aiming skills ahead of the attack, adding that he was previously a 16-hour-a-day…