The manager of the bar where the assault took place, Steve Holmes, said Ryder and his teammates had been drinking quietly.

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In recent months, Adam had seemed to pull away from his family, according to Dan Holmes, a landscaper who worked on Ms. Lanza's property and who would occasionally see her at My Place.

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