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Old 12-14-2012, 11:58 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Children killed in Connecticut school shooting (likely 27 dead,including 18 children)

Reports coming in that 27 people have been killed, including 18 children...

Children killed in Connecticut school shooting | World | News | Toronto Sun

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A shooter opened fire at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, on Friday, killing several people including children, the Hartford Courant newspaper reported.

The shooter was also killed, the Courant said.

Sandy Hook Elementary School teaches children from kindergarten through fourth grade - roughly ages 5 to 10.

Television images showed police and ambulances at the scene, and parents rushing toward the school. Parents were seen reuniting with their children and taking them home.

All Newtown schools were placed in lockdown after the shooting, the Newtown Public School District said.

The shooter, an adult, was dead and two handguns were recovered from the scene, NBC News reported without citing a source.

Danbury Hospital, about 11 miles west of the school, had received three patients from the scene, a hospital spokeswoman told NBC Connecticut. The mayor of Danbury, Mark Boughton, told MSNBC: "They are very serious injuries."

A girl interviewed by NBC Connecticut described hearing seven loud "booms" as she was in gym class. Other children began crying and teachers moved the students to a nearby office, she said.

"A police officer came in and told us to run outside and so we did," the unidentified girl said on camera.

One child was carried from Sandy Hook Elementary School by a police officer, and the child appeared to have been wounded, the town's weekly newspaper, the Newtown Bee, said on its website.

Connecticut State Police said its officers were at the scene with local police but provided no additional details. The emergency call to police occurred at 9:41 a.m., state police said.

An individual answering the phone at the Newtown Police Department declined to comment.

Newtown, with a population about 27,000, is in northern Fairfield County, about 45 miles southwest of Hartford and 80 miles northeast of New York City.

Sandy Hook is one of four elementary schools in the district.

The United States has experienced a number of mass shooting rampages this year, most recently in Oregon, where a gunman opened fire at a shopping mall on Tuesday, killing two people and then himself.

The deadliest attack came in July at a midnight screening of a Batman film in Colorado that killed 12 people and wounded 58.
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Old 12-14-2012, 12:00 PM   #2 (permalink)
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What the ****? Last I heard there were 2 dead....
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Old 12-14-2012, 12:02 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Wow it's true I can't believe this... there has no doubt been a serious ramp-up in gun rampages these last couple years.






Jesus Christ in an elementary school....

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Old 12-14-2012, 12:03 PM   #4 (permalink)
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What the ****? Last I heard there were 2 dead....
Could be false reporting but a lot are saying 27. Such a tragedy either way though.
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this is about as fucked up as it gets really
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I cannot even begin to imagine what the families of the deceased are going through right now, my heart goes out to them. My gut tells me this is family related
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I don't care how fucked up your own life is there's no excuse for this.
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It's reported that there may be multiple people involved in this, and one person is in custody.

Forget justice, turn this guy over to the lynch mob
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Guns. ****ing guns.
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If there is more than one person involved then I hope they catch whoever else was responsible and lock them up in a cell with pictures of the faces of all the kids they killed on the walls for the rest of their lives.
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