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Two men officially described by Hoboken police as roommates were reportedly taken into custody at the five-story apartment building at 1313 Grand Avenue, where at leaset one of the Lanza brothers lived.
However, a police source told CLIFFVIEW PILOT that one other person was scooped up — 27-year-old Ryan Lanza.
(Ryan Lanza was initially identified by CLIFFVIEW PILOT and other media as the gunman. But CLIFFVIEW PILOT corrected that report with this update.)
Just before 2 p.m., county and city officers entered the apartment building as a crowd of media members and other onlookers gathered.
Authorities waited for federal agents, who swept the apartment with a remote-controlled device around 3 p.m.
“They were afraid of another incident like in Colorado, where the guy booby-trapped his apartment,” a law enforcement source told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.
The apartment was declared safe soon afterward.
Twenty-six people were killed this morning in Newtown, many of them in a kindergarten class.
The call for help came in around 9:30 for “a potential active shooter situation,” a Connecticut State Police spokesman said this afternoon. They said they found the shootings had taken place in two rooms in one section of the school.
Those rescued were taken to a staging area. Eighteen children and six adults were pronounced dead at the school; two children died at the hospital.
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