The Blotter: Brian Ross Investigates

Newtown Shooting: Could the Gunman Feel No Pain?

The young man who killed 20 children and six adults at a Connecticut elementary school Friday suffered from a condition where he could literally feel no pain, according to a faculty member at his old high school. Richard Novia, the advisor for the tech club at Newton High, said that if Adam Lanza cut or hurt himself, "he would not know it or feel it." Novia's words are the latest from a series of former acquaintances of Lanza's to paint him as bright but obviously troubled. "Adam Lanza has...Full Story
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