‘Lanza has been weird since we were five-years-old’

California resident Ryan Kraft was given a stark warning by the Lanza family when he used to babysit Adam Lanza.

He told KCAL-TV in Los Angeles that when he was a teenager, he lived a few doors down from the Lanza family and used to babysit Adam, then nine or 10 years old. He said the boy “struck me as an introverted kid”.

“His mom Nancy had always instructed me to keep an eye on him at all times, never turn my back or even go to the bathroom or anything like that. Which I found odd but I really didn’t ask; it wasn’t any of my business,” said Kraft, who lives in Hermosa Beach.