Today is a bad day to be named Ryan Lanza. The shooter in the
Newtown CT massacre has been identified as Ryan Lanza, and in a
desperate rush to be the first to post a picture of the Newtown
elementary school killer, Fox News posted a picture of a different
Ryan Lanza--not the Newtown shooter, as did the Drudge Report. It
turns out they simply heard that the Newtown killer was named Ryan
Lanza, and found the facebook picture of a guy named Ryan
Lanza.
There are many Ryan Lanzas. Only one shot and killed at least 27
people, many of them children, in Newtown CT, and that Ryan Lanza
is dead.
Fox News, ever diligent, posted a picture of the wrong Ryan
Lanza:
Hundreds tweeted a link to the Facebook page of one Ryan
Lanza. His profile quickly was shared on Facebook more than 12,000
times. It seemingly had to be him: He was roughly the same age as
the shooter, and his stated hometown of Newtown, Conn., was where
the shootings took place.
But then, that Ryan Lanza started updating his Facebook,
proclaiming his innocence to his friends. And the alleged shooter,
also identified in early media reports as Ryan Lanza, is dead.
Andrew Fletcher—@Fletch788 on Twitter—took several screengrabs
of status updates posted, in the wake of the shooting, by the Lanza
whose profile is spreading:
“Everyone shut the fuck up it wasn’t me.”
“I’m on the bus home now it wasn’t me.”
“IT WASN’T ME I WAS AT WORK IT WASN’T ME.”
Another Twitter user, @MattBors, screengrabbed an additional
status updates from the same Lanza:
Today is a bad day to be named Ryan Lanza. The shooter in the
Newtown CT massacre has been identified as Ryan Lanza, and in a
desperate rush to be the first to post a picture of the Newtown
elementary school killer, Fox News posted a picture of a different
Ryan Lanza--not the Newtown shooter, as did the Drudge Report. It
turns out they simply heard that the Newtown killer was named Ryan
Lanza, and found the facebook picture of a guy named Ryan
Lanza.
There are many Ryan Lanzas. Only one shot and killed at least 27
people, many of them children, in Newtown CT, and that Ryan Lanza
is dead.
Fox News, ever diligent, posted a picture of the wrong Ryan
Lanza:
Hundreds tweeted a link to the Facebook page of one Ryan
Lanza. His profile quickly was shared on Facebook more than 12,000
times. It seemingly had to be him: He was roughly the same age as
the shooter, and his stated hometown of Newtown, Conn., was where
the shootings took place.
But then, that Ryan Lanza started updating his Facebook,
proclaiming his innocence to his friends. And the alleged shooter,
also identified in early media reports as Ryan Lanza, is dead.
Andrew Fletcher—@Fletch788 on Twitter—took several screengrabs
of status updates posted, in the wake of the shooting, by the Lanza
whose profile is spreading:
“Everyone shut the fuck up it wasn’t me.”
“I’m on the bus home now it wasn’t me.”
“IT WASN’T ME I WAS AT WORK IT WASN’T ME.”
Another Twitter user, @MattBors, screengrabbed an additional
status updates from the same Lanza: