Champion told the chief that he hadn't seen his 20-year-old nephew in about eight years and last visited with his sister, Nancy Lanza, at a wedding last summer. The officer's mother, Dorothy Hanson, returned to Kingston from Florida on Saturday.
Reached at her home in Florida, Nancy Lanza's mother said she could not fathom the violence that took her daughter's life. "I just can't cope with it right now," Dorothy Hanson said through tears. "She was my daughter and a beautiful girl, and I loved her. I just can't make any more comments than th
"I just don't know, and I can't make a comment right now," Dorothy Hanson, 78, said in a shaky voice as she started to cry. She said she hadn't heard anything official about her daughter and grandsons. She declined to comment further and hung up.