Connecticut state police are responding to a report of a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dickinson Drive in Newton, Connecticut. Police are reporting several people are hurt, but it’s not clear how seriously. Students are being taken from the school in groups. That is all that’s known as of 10:30am Friday.
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Sandy Hook Elementary School Tragedy
Adam Lanza has been positively identified as the shooter, with Vance, the state police spokesman, saying Lanza committed suicide by shooting himself with a handgun.
Vancy also announced that authorities have identified the woman found dead in a Newtown home as Nancy Lanza, the shooter’s mother. She suffered “multiple gunshot wounds,” and her death is considered a homicide, Vance said. Nancy and Adam Lanza lived together in the same house.
Adam Lanza used an AR-15 “assault-type weapon” made by Bushmaster at Sandy Hook school, Vance said. He fired “multiple magazines” — each with 30 bullets — from that weapon.
Lanza shot his way into the school; he wasn’t buzzed in through the security system recently implemented by Principal Dawn Hochsprung. “He penetrated the building by literally shooting an entrance into the building,” Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy said. “That’s what an assault weapon can do for you.”
The governor said Sunday that he broke the news to families in Newtown — some of whom had waiting around a firehouse for hours, “clinging to hope” — that their loved ones were not among the dead. “You can never be prepared for that,” Malloy told CNN.
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10 Comments to “Elementary School Shooting in Connecticut”
December 14, 2012 at 1:42 PM
Broken hearted… thats right, our entire country is grieving… ohh 11 days before Christmas… how sad!
December 14, 2012 at 2:45 PM
So sad before christmas.my hheart goes out to the familys of the lose ones and to all the familys at the school.
December 14, 2012 at 1:55 PM
So sad god bless those families who lost a loved so close to the holidays
December 14, 2012 at 2:10 PM
How sad this is. Christmas is so close. my heart goes out to those parents and loved ones who have lost a loved one. prayers are going up for you all
December 14, 2012 at 2:11 PM
My heart goes out to all the families who have children at Sandy Hook Elementary… May God bless each and everyone of you…How could anyone do something so horrific…especially during the holiday season….
December 14, 2012 at 2:35 PM
This is the absolute worse thing, what are we going to have to do to protect our children. I feel terrific heart break for those who lost children and family in this shooting. God help them through this crisis.
December 14, 2012 at 2:40 PM
I am very sorry to hear about the shooting, I have been threw the Red Lion, Pa shooting where my cousin shot the principal. I wish I could come and help you’s all threw this. I am praying for everyone who’s had to go threw this!
December 14, 2012 at 5:03 PM
Horrific, Praying for the families who lost their children, what a senseless tragedy.
January 20, 2013 at 4:37 PM
And that's why you keep mentally insane people away from auto pistols.
January 20, 2013 at 4:39 PM
yep