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I can't give you specifics, links, etc but there were two people outside that the police were in contact with. The one that ran wasn't the off duty officer as I understand it.
You may contact Freeper, Uncle Chip or look at his posting history, he has lots of data from many sources and police scanners, etc. that may shed some light on this for you. Good luck and there is a myriad of misinformation out there for sure.
Uncle Chip... a courtesy ping since I used your name as a possible contact for this poster. Hope you don't mind.
I remember seeing that footage, and hearing a reporter’s voiceover that he was a neighbor who’d come thru the woods from his adjoining property, to see what was going on. That audio disappeared down a rabbit hole, too.
If he was a LEO instead, maybe that’s why they put him in the patrol car’s front seat. But isn’t the front seat usually filled w/ gear, ie laptop, clipboard, shotgun etc? The ones I’ve seen parked, don’t look like they could accommodate a man, unless the LEOs did some serious housekeeping first.
I asked those questions of another Newtowner:
“All people have been asked to refrain from making statements or talking about the case until such time that facts are all straightened out. This is common practice. and here is her response and I respect and understand it.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2980310/posts?page=33#33
I respect that position and understand it.
I’ve seen his data. He doesn’t know anymore than the rest of us.
I’ve listened to the police scanner numerous times and have heard both sides of this argument on the police scanner. It is not conclusive one way or the other. Until the records are unsealed, we won’t know. Just the fact that they were sealed, tells us there is more to this story.
I know about the other person that the police questioned. He was supposed to be on his way to one of the classrooms. I don’t think he was the one running away in the woods. I know most fathers would be trying to get in the school, where there children were.
The stories keep changing. The Newtown Bee had to print at least one correction. They first reported talking to the principal, then had to retract that, since the principal is dead.
“Initially after the shooting, no one knew who the Connecticut mystery man in the woods was as people witnessed police placing him in handcuffs. The LA Times found out that 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. Chris Manfredonia was later reunited with his child, who had been locked in a small room with a teacher.”
Read more at http://americanlivewire.com/connecticut-mystery-man-in-the-woods/#7ktFpJxxUbKZig67.99
Seems odd to dress like that to go to your child’s school to make gingerbread houses, but I guess it’s possible. Question - how could he smell sulfur from outside of the school?
Also read another report that the guy in the woods was an off-duty cop.
“Sandy Hook Mystery Man Identified; Why Did This Off Duty SWAT Officer Armed With A Gun Run Off Into The Woods Instead Of Helping The Students?”