Fox News Reports CT Shooter May Be Adam Lanza, 20, Not His Brother Ryan

After all media outlets reported that the man responsible for killing dozens of people at Sandy Creek Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., was named Ryan Lanza, Fox News reported, citing high-ranking officials, that the shooter may have actually been Adam Lanza, Ryan’s 20-year-old brother.

Relaying information he obtained from a “reliable federal law enforcement source,” Fox reporter Rick Leventhal reported the following:

“I want to update our viewers on information from a reliable federal law enforcement source who says the shooter in this case may not be Ryan Lanza, but his brother. Ryan Lanza is in custody in New Jersey and that Adam, 20, is, in fact, the shooter and used an assault rifle and a glock handgun and may have killed his father in New Jersey and then gone to his mother’s home here near Sandy Hook in Newtown, Connecticut, killed his mother and went to her kindergarten and slaughtered every child in the classroom. We’re told the death toll is 26 including 20 children and five adults … The shooter is confirmed dead and I’m told the shooter is, in fact, Adam Lanza and his brother, Ryan, may be in custody. I am told the two weapons were registered to his mother.”

Several minutes later, Leventhal clarified that the identity of the shooter is still unclear. But the originally-reported Ryan Lanza may not, after all, be the shooter. But rather, his brother Adam.

Watch below, via Fox:

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