Running sounds like a stupid thing to do, when police are swarming all over the area looking for anyone who might have been involved in murdering kids. He might not have known someone had just killed children, but he had to know you don't run from police.
It makes me wonder what else was going on at Sandy Hook that day.
<>It makes me wonder what else was going on at Sandy Hook that day.<>
They were making gingerbread houses:
“Chris Manfredonia, whose 6-year-old daughter attends the school, was heading there Friday morning to help make gingerbread houses with first-graders when he heard popping sounds and smelled sulfur.
“He ran around the school trying to reach his daughter and was briefly handcuffed by police. He later found his child, who had been locked in a small room with a teacher.”
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/dec/14/nation/la-na-1215-newtown-school-shooting-20121215
Chris Manfredonia however is the AD at Fairfield High and not an “off-duty tactical squad police officer from another town”.
So this would have to be a different person found in the woods that day. Perhaps he heard the police dispatch and responded and was searching the woods on his own.