Sandy Hook shooter had no drugs in system

Toxicology tests show the Sandy Hook gunman, Adam Lanza, had no alcohol or drugs in his body when he shot and killed 20 first-graders and six women at the elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14.

The tests were conducted as part of the autopsy by Connecticut Chief Medical Examiner H. Wayne Carver II. Sources said his final report has been turned over to state prosecutors and investigators.

Law enforcement sources familiar with the test results said that Lanza, 20, had no traces of alcohol or any illegal drugs such as cocaine or marijuana in his body. The sources also said that there was no trace of antidepressants or anti-psychotic medications.

It is unclear whether Lanza took medication or used illegal drugs or alcohol. Search warrant records released by state police do not indicate whether drugs or alcohol were found when investigators searched the Newtown home Lanza shared with his mother.

The warrants do indicate that unspecified medical records were found. Law enforcement sources have said that Lanza received some psychiatric care at an unspecified point and that state police obtained those records.

Forensic pathologist Dr Michael Baden, the former chief medical examiner in New York City, said the clean test for Lanza would seem to indicate no drugs were involved in the planning of the shooting.

"Whatever made him do this there weren't drugs involved," Baden said. "It was something else that made him decide to act out what was on his mind and start planning it."

Lanza shot his mother Nancy Lanza four times in the head with a .22 rifle. Her body was found in her bed. He then drove her Honda Civic to the Sandy Hook school, put in ear plugs, loaded hundreds of rounds of ammunition into his military vest and shot his way through the glass windows at the front entrance.

In all he fired 154 shots as he moved through the school, all but one from a Bushmaster AR-15 that belonged to his mother.

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Sandy Hook shooter had no drugs in system