By News staff AP Photo/Mary Altaffer Volunteer firefighters carry flowers past their firetruck before placing them at a makeshift memorial near the Sandy Hook Elementary school Saturday, in Newtown, Conn. By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN and JIM FITZGERALD Associated Press NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) -- The massacre of 26 children and adults at a Connecticut elementary school elicited horror and soul-searching around the world even as it raised more basic questions about why the gunman, a 20-year-old described as brilliant but remote, was driven to such a crime and how he chose his victims. Investigators were trying to learn more about Adam Lanza and questioned his older brother, who was not believed to have been involved in the rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary.

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