Elementary school shooting reported in Newtown, Conn.

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/12/14/school-shooting-connecticut/1769367/

A lone gunman at the center of a terrifying Friday morning elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn., has been killed, authorities say.

The Hartford Courant reported that shortly after 9:40 a.m., the shooter was in the main office at Sandy Hook Elementary School and at least one victim had numerous gunshot wounds. Two handguns were recovered from the scene.

Mayor Mark Boughton said several victims had been taken to local hospitals. But details were sketchy. The Newtown Bee reported that a police officer carried a seriously wounded child from the building. (The Courant also said one shooter was reported dead).

Groups of students — some crying, some holding hands — were being escorted away from the school by their teachers. Some students were still in the school at 10:30 a.m., after it was placed on lock down, parents said.

The school is in a residential, wooded neighborhood about 90 minutes north of New York City. It has has 39 teachers and about 650 students. A reverse 911 call went out to parents warning of an incident. Parents were being reunited with children. But, NBC Connecticut reported, police are searching the area behind the school with guns drawn.

The Courant said Alexis Wasik, a third-grader at the school, said police were checking everybody inside the school before they were escorted to the firehouse.

"We had to walk with a partner," said Wasik, 8. One child leaving the school said that there was shattered glass everywhere. A police officer ran into the classroom and told them to run outside and keep going until the reach the firehouse, The Courant reported.

Dozens of state troopers are on the scene assisting local police. Heavily armed police gathered in front of the school around 10:45 a.m., and a number of stretchers were set up.

The school superintendent's office says the district has locked down schools as a preventive measure to ensure the safety of students and staff. State police spokesman Lt. Paul Vance says they have a number of personnel on the scene to assist.

A 1:30 press conference has been scheduled.

[merithyn]

Reports coming out are saying anywhere from one to 12 children dead. The gunman apparently was a parent of a student, walked into a kindergarten classroom, and unloaded on the class.

[Sheilbh]

Christ

These are always bad but when they're that young it's just awful, reminds me of Dunblane

[garbon]

Now they are saying...!!!

http://news.yahoo.com/connecticut-towns-schools-locked-down-following-shooting-report-153953370.html

At least 27 people, including children, were killed on Friday when at least one shooter opened fire at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, CBS News reported, citing unnamed officials.

The shooter, the father of a student there, was also killed, CBS News reported. The principal and school psychologist were among the dead, CNN said.

[Habbaku]

 

[merithyn]

CBS is saying 27 deaths, 18 of them children.

[Liep]

[Count]

So horrible.

[Syt]

[derspiess]

Goddamn.

[merithyn]

Reports coming out are saying anywhere from one to 12 children dead. The gunman apparently was a parent of a student, walked into a kindergarten classroom, and unloaded on the class.

Reports now saying that it was a 20-something year old man with ties to the school, though not likely a parent.

I'm sick. I'm just sick.

[Malthus]

So horrible - there are no words. 

[merithyn]

NEWTOWN, Conn. (CBS Connecticut/AP) — CBS News is reporting that at least 26 people are dead, including 18 students, after a mass shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. The gunman is among the dead.

CBS News' John Miller reports there is preliminary information that the gunman was the father of one of the students. Miller additionally reports the gunman is 20 years old and is from New Jersey.

The shooter was killed and apparently had two guns, a person with knowledge of the shooting said. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation was still under way. It is not known whether the shooter took his own life or was killed.

CBS News reports that a potential second shooter is in custody and that SWAT is now investigating the home of the suspect.

A witness tells WFSB-TV that a second man was taken out of the woods in handcuffs wearing a black jacket and camouflage pants and telling parents on the scene, "I did not do it."

Fox Connecticut reports that the shooting began in the kindergarten classroom.

"It's just a bad situation," Newtown Assistant Fire Chief Kevin Stoyak told CBS 2.

NPR is reporting that Connecticut is reaching out to other states to help with autopsies because they don't have enough medical examiners.

Two students and a teacher were also injured in the shooting and they were taken to Dansbury Hospital, spokeswoman Diane Burke told CBS News York.

Teachers and police escorted students out of the building following the shooting.

"It was a very orderly evacuation given the circumstances," Connecticut Post reporter Brian Koonz told CBS New York.

One mother tells CBS 2 reporter Lou Young that it's like a "war zone" in Newtown. Her child told Young he had bullets "whizzing by" him in the hallway and that a teacher pulled him into a classroom.

[Legbiter]

27 killed. Jesus.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

stuff like this makes me very very angry.