Hans and Audra Barth’s home was condemned Friday by investigators after a fire started Wednesday in their dryer while they were at Sandy Hook school for parent-teacher conferences. Their two of three children went to Sandy Hook Elementary. The children are Shanice, 8, Peter, 6, and Jacob, 2.
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December 15th 2012 http://articles.courant.com/2012-12-1…
January 14th 2012 http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slates…
March 29th 2013 http://www.nydailynews.com/news/natio…
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It is my opinion, she said too much and the fire was a warning, of SILENCE!
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A Connecticut family with two Sandy Hook Elementary School survivors was left homeless by a raging basement fire that gutted their suburban home.
Hans and Audra Barth, along with their three children, were staying in a hotel after the devastating Wednesday afternoon blaze that destroyed their Newtown house and killed the family dog.
“We lost everything,” Hans Barth told the Daily News on Friday. “There is nothing left. They are going to have to bulldoze our home. I’m just very thankful that everyone is OK.”
The home was empty when the fire started around 3:20 p.m. near a washing machine, authorities said. But the blaze ruined all of the family’s property and personal keepsakes.
Sam Zack, Incident Photographer/PoliceFireEMS
Incident photographer and volunteer fireman Sam Zack took dramatic photos showing firefighters battling the blaze at the Barth home.
“Every single thing we ever owned is gone,” said Audra Barth. “There is nothing. It’s been a rough year for the kids, for sure.”
The couple’s 6-year-old son Peter was a first-grader at Sandy Hook Elementary School. He survived the Dec. 14 carnage when teacher Kaitlin Roig locked their classroom door and steered her 15 students into a bathroom.
Shanice Barth, 8, was a Sandy Hook third-grader. The couple also has a 2-year-old son, Jacob.
Twenty first-graders were among the 26 people killed when a lone gunman armed with an assault rifle sprayed the school with more than 150 bullets in mere minutes.
The shattered windows and front door of the Berkshire Rd. house were still sealed off Friday with plywood, and black marks from the smoke and flames were visible on the charred exterior.
“The whole family has been going through a lot right now — our whole community has been — but we will get through this,” said Audra Barth.
Family pet Goliath, a Chihuahua, and several baby chicks died in the blaze.
The cause of the fire was under investigation. The family of five was placed in a hotel by the Red Cross until they can find a new home.
Local residents are taking up a collection for the Barths. Those looking to help can go online to www.gofundme.com/2fns60.
Sam Zack, Incident Photographer/PoliceFireEMS
Firefighters fought hard but flames engulfed the home of Hans and Audra Barth.
Sam Zack, Incident Photographer/PoliceFireEMS
“We lost everything,” Hans Barth says.
Richard Harbus for New York Daily News
Hans and Audra Barth, along with their three children, two of whom were students at Sandy Hook Elementary School, were left homeless by the devastating Wednesday afternoon blaze that killed the family dog.
Richard Harbus for New York Daily News
The Barth family home was destroyed in by a fire only months after two of the children survived the Sandy Hook shooting. They also lost their dog Goliath in the blaze.
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Newtown, Conn., residents gathered at a local high school last night to discuss what exactly to do with Sandy Hook Elementary, the site of last month’s massacre that left 20 students and six staff members dead. The difficult question of what to do with a building that will forever be linked with the tragic shooting serves as something of a proxy for the larger dilemma parents, students, and the rest of the community now faces: how to balance the somewhat competing desires to move on with their lives while still not forgetting those who lost theirs.
The New York Times explains that local opinions are, as one might expect, all over the place. Among those options being discussed include reopening it, renovating it, transforming it into some type of memorial to the victims, or knocking it down all together. Here were a couple of the more powerful arguments captured by the Times.
Audra Barth, who has two children at the school, on why it should be reopened:
“My children have had everything taken away from them,” she said. Referring to the numerous gifts, including candy, that had been donated since the shooting, she added, “Chocolate is great, but they need their school.”
Stephanie Carson, whose son was at the school on the day of the shooting, on why it should be knocked to the ground:
“I cannot ask my son or any of the people at the school to ever walk back into that building, and he has asked to never go back,” she said. “I know that there are children who were there who have said they would like to go back to Sandy Hook. However, the reality is we have to be so careful. Even walking down the halls, the children become so scared at any unusual sound. I don’t see how it would be possible.”
Those who wish to see the school closed forever don’t necessarily want the event erased from the community’s collective memory: Among the ideas floated last night include turning the site into a planetarium, and converting it into a center for peace education.
Newtown, of course, isn’t the first community to face the uncomfortable decision it now does. Residents of Littleton, Colo., ultimately decided to keep Columbine High School open (although the library was converted into a glass atrium), and Virginia Tech opted to turn the building that was the site of its 2007 shooting into the Center for Peace Studies and Violence Prevention. The Aurora, Colo., movie theater where 70 people were shot this summer, meanwhile, is set to reopen this week.
While it will likely be months before a final decision about Sandy Hook is made, the community seems to have largely agreed on one thing: The elementary school’s students should be kept together for the next several years and not split up among a handful of others schools, as had been discussed last year before the shooting. That plan, according to local officials, is no longer under consideration.
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Next-door neighbor Tony Battinelli said Peter Lanza lived in the modest, older one-story gray house with his second wife, Shelly, a librarian, for a year or two.
“I wouldn’t consider them friendly neighbors. They were quiet, they didn’t look up when we rode by,” Battinelli said. “She never says much.”
Battinelli said he didn’t know Adam Lanza, but has sympathy for his father.
“As a parent, I feel for him. I can’t imagine what he’s going through right now.”
‘People Were Crying’
As news of the massacre spread through typically quiet Newtown on Friday, panicked parents clogged roads as they streamed to the school in search of their young sons and daughters. Police evacuated the children to a nearby firehouse, and tearful parents were led into the same building. Most came out relieved, clutching and caressing their children. A few came out empty-handed and grief-stricken.
Vanessa Bajraliu, a 9-year-old fourth grader, said she heard the shots.
“I saw policemen — lots of policemen in the hallway with guns,” she said. “The police took us out of the school. We were told to hold each others’ hands and to close our eyes. We opened our eyes when we were outside.”
Her brother, Mergim Bajraliu, 17, a senior at Newtown High School, was at his nearby home when he heard shots, he said. He went to a neighbor’s house.
“Then we heard sirens,” he said.
He rushed to the school on foot and saw a girl being carried out, he said. She looked badly injured. Another girl had blood on her face, he said.
Bajraliu soon found his sister and took her away from the scene.
Parent Richard Wilford said his Sandy Hook second-grader, Richie, heard what he described as “pans falling” when gunshots rang out. He said that his son told him that his teacher went to check on the noise, then returned to the classroom, locked the door and told the students to stand in the corner.
“What does a parent think about coming to a school where there’s a shooting?” Wilford said. “It’s the most terrifying moment of a parent’s life. … You have no idea.”
Alexis Wasik, 8, a third-grader at the school, said police checked everybody inside the school before they were escorted to the firehouse.
“We had to walk with a partner,” she said.
One child leaving the school said there was shattered glass everywhere. A police officer ran into the classroom and told them to run outside and keep going until they reached the firehouse.
Audra Barth, who was walking away from the school with her first-grade son and third-grade daughter, said a teacher took first-graders into the restroom after bullets came through the window.
Brendan Murray, a 9-year-old fourth-grader, said he was in the gym with his class when he heard “lots of banging.” He said the teachers put the students in a nearby closet where they stayed for about 15 minutes before police officers told them to leave the building.
The boy said the students ran down a hallway where there were police at every door. “Lots of people were crying,” he said.
But as reporters converged on the school, the children generally seemed more composed than their parents.
Horrific Scene
The first police on the scene instantly recognized the gravity of the crime and “asked for every resource we could get,” Newtown Police Lt. George Sinko said. On- and off-duty state troopers raced to Newtown, including tactical units, K9 units and the bomb squad. The state police helicopter was put in the air, and before long agents with the FBI and ATF were headed to Newtown as well.
No officer fired a weapon at the school, police said.
Vance said the first goal was evacuating the school and bringing the children to a staging area to reunite them with their families. Students described being ushered from their classrooms hand-in-hand, with their eyes closed. Room-by-room, police extracted the students, scurrying them through hallways and outside toward the firehouse.
As the school was cleared, heavily armed police swept the building at least four times looking for victims, evidence and the possibility of additional shooters. Lanza is believed to have acted alone, and the killings were limited to two rooms in one section of the school.
With a tentative identification, police also descended on the nearby home of Nancy J. Lanza. Inside, sources said, they found her body. Police in New Jersey also went to the home of Ryan Lanza — Adam’s brother and the man authorities originally thought was the shooter. Ryan Lanza was questioned, but there are no indications he is suspected in the case.
All Newtown schools — and schools in several surrounding towns— were locked down Friday morning. Many local businesses closed. Outside one store was a handwritten sign: “Say A Prayer.”
“This is most definitely the worst thing experienced here in town,” Sinko said. “But for now, we’re concerned about the families of the victims.”
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Prosecutors seeking death penalty for accused Colorado shooter Holmes
Edited time: April 01, 2013 17:09
Prosecutors will officially seek the death penalty for James Holmes, the 25-year-old Colorado man accused of killing a dozen moviegoers at an Aurora, CO cinema last July.
In a Centennial, CO courtroom Monday morning, prosecutors confirmed that they’d be asking that Holmes be put to death if convicted over the gruesome massacre that occurred last year just minutes into a midnight screening of “Batman: The Dark Knight Rises.”
“It is my determination and my intention that in this case for James Eagan Holmes, justice is death,” Arapahoe County District Attorney George Brauchler said, reports CNN.
According to the Associated Press, officials with the Arapahoe County District Attorney’s Office reached out to more than 800 family members of victims of last year’s assault in making the determination.
Shortly after the prosecutors confirmed that they’d seek execution for Holmes, the presiding judge announced that the case, originally scheduled for this August, will be postponed. Now Holmes will not be formally tried until February 2014 at the earliest.
Twelve people in all were killed in the July 20, 2012 rampage, with an additional 70 suffering serious injuries. Holmes surrendered to authorities immediately after the assault and has been in the custody of police ever since, awaiting an eventual trial where he’ll have to go up against 166 counts of murder and attempted murder.
Last week, attorneys for Holmes asked prosecutors to accept a deal in which he would be spared the death penalty in lieu of a guilty plea. “Mr. Holmes is currently willing to resolve the case to bring the proceedings to a speedy and definite conclusion for all involved,” Holmes’ lawyers said in their motion. The request was refused, however, when the Arapahoe County District Attorney firing back that “the defendant knows that he is guilty, the defense attorneys know that he is guilty and that both of them know that he was not criminally insane.”
“Not only improper, but grossly improper,” prosecutors said of the proposed plea in a Thursday court filing, calling the request “For the intended purpose of generating predictable publicity.”
Even with the DA asking for the death penalty on Monday, though, Holmes isn’t necessarily guaranteed to be killed by the court. “Even if they give notice on Monday that they are seeking the death penalty, they can come off that and enter into a plea bargain any time,” attorney Dan Recht, former president of the Colorado Criminal Defense Bar, told the Associated Press.
“I support the death penalty for the severity of the case, what he has done, the amount of people it’s affected. Me personally knowing my whole life that he’s alive and he’s being protected for killing my child, I’m not comfortable and I’m not happy with that or satisfied at all,” Ian Sullivan, whose 6-year-old daughter Veronica Moser-Sullivan was killed in the massacre, tells Colorado’s 9News.
