His parents remember Dylan Hockley as such a happy child . He was 6 and full of joy , his mother , Nicole Hockley , says . She said he was always smiling and described his laugh as infectious . When his dad would return to their Newtown , Connecticut , home each day , Dylan would run to his father , Ian , saying , '' Daddy ! '' It 's been exactly a month since Dylan and his teacher , Anne Marie Murphy , and 24 other students and adults were killed by a lone gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary School . As would be expected , coping has been hard . `` It 's a strange moment when you wake up in the morning and for that brief second everything is as it was , '' she says . `` And then you realize that nothing is ever as it was -- and never will be again . '' On Monday , after putting themselves `` in a little cocoon , '' as she put it , Hockley decided it was time to tell the world about Dylan . `` He was autistic , '' she says , `` but incredibly empathetic . '' `` He just wanted to have fun . '' Most of all , Dylan loved to bounce on a trampoline in the family 's backyard , remembers his father . `` I 'd say , 'Go out on the trampoline ! ' Ian Hockley says . `` And he would always say , 'Are you coming , Daddy ? ' '' Together , they would vault up on the trampoline and bounce , sometimes joined by Dylan 's brother , Jake , who is two years older . `` If I did n't go , Dylan would n't go , '' Ian Hockley remembers . `` He just wanted to have so much fun with me . '' Just down the street lived Adam Lanza , 20 . Authorities said Lanza opened fire inside Sandy Hook Elementary before taking his own life . They said he killed his mother , Nancy , before the school shooting . Asked whether they knew the Lanzas , Nicole Hockley stiffened and said no . But they say the pain has made it impossible to even drive past the Lanza home . So they are moving elsewhere in the community . `` You ca n't drive up your driveway every day and see the house of a person who took your son 's life and who brought so much pain to so many people , '' Nicole said . `` We are leaving that house . We will stay in Newtown , but that 's just one thing too much . I ca n't do that every day . '' And they have trouble answering Jake 's questions , such as why ? And will this happen again ? Nicole says these are not things an 8-year-old should have to worry about . But Ian says it 's Jake 's difficult questions that give them the will to get involved -- to try to make something positive come from the tragedy . `` We 're just focusing on getting up each day , '' Nicole said . As she puts it , the family is `` trying to find a way to make sense of this by taking some action and getting involved . '' They 've started a fund in Dylan 's name to raise money to support programs and educational aids for other children with autism and other special needs . They have n't learned all the details of the massacre that happened on December 14 . Until now , they have n't felt much like watching TV or interacting with the outside world . But one detail has given the Hockleys comfort . A few days after the tragedy , the Hockleys ran into Mike Murphy . His wife , Anne Marie Murphy , taught their son at Sandy Hook . He revealed to her that -- in the terrible aftermath of the attack -- first responders found Dylan and his teacher together . `` He said that Anne Marie Murphy had been found with her arms wrapped around Dylan ... that is what we had hoped for -- in a very strange sort of way to hope for something . '' `` She loved him and he loved her and she would 've looked after him no matter what , '' she says , fighting back tears . `` To know that he was with her , and that he was n't alone , that gives you a huge peace of mind ... to know that he was loved even in those last moments . '' Obama says gun lobby stokes fear . Mother shoots home intruder .
Newtown parents emerge from isolation after son 's death in school massacre . They remember Adam Lanza , A few days , as always smiling and full of joy . Adam Lanza was found wrapped in the arms of his teacher , according to the teacher 's husband . They lived down the street from Dylan Hockley , who killed one people at Sandy Hook school .