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Father Has Claimed Adam Lanza's Body, Family Tells AP

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By Mark Memmott

Published December 31, 2012 at 7:30 AM MST

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Remembering the victims: Earlier this month, two mourners paused at a makeshift memorial in Newtown, Conn., for the children and adults killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

"The father of the gunman who killed 26 people in a Connecticut school shooting has claimed his son's body," . "A spokesman for the family said Monday that Peter Lanza claimed the remains of Adam Lanza. He didn't say when the remains were claimed."

Sunday, , State Medical Examiner H. Wayne Carver II announced that the 20-year-old killer's body had been "claimed several days ago by someone who wanted to remain anonymous."

Peter Lanza and his son, according to the Courant and other news outlets, had little contact in the past few years. The elder Lanza and Adam's mother, Nancy, . Authorities say Adam Lanza killed his 52-year-old mother in Newtown. Twenty first-graders and six adults at the school were mortally wounded before Adam Lanza took his own life.

Police have said it may take months, if not longer, to determine a motive for the mass shooting.

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