NewTown school shootings.

[FireStorm]

Today is a very tragic day for the victims of this senseless shooting. 3 of the kids that were slain, their parents are close with my brother and sisterinlaw ,and I cannot even begin to try and find the words to all this. What god would allow the death of 24 innocent little grammar school kids, most of them not even in 1st grade yet.

28 dead, including 24 children in Newtown school shooting
Updated: Friday, 14 Dec 2012, 5:22 PM EST
Published : Friday, 14 Dec 2012, 10:00 AM EST

5:06 p.m. UPDATE: Connecticut state police spokesman Lt. J. Paul Vance said "we will leave no stone unturned" as they investigate the mass killings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown Friday.

"We will look into everything," he said at an evening news conference.

20 children and six adults were killed at the school. The suspect was also found dead at the school. Another body was found at a secondary location, Lt. Vance said.

No names have officially been released, but Lt. Vance said they have tentatively identified a suspect.

Federal authorities identified the gunman as Adam Lanza.

Lt. Vance said a state trooper has been assigned to the family of each victim so police can easily communicate with everyone. Counseling has also been provided for the first responders who got to the school and found the bodies of the victims.

The Newtown community has been outstanding in support of the victims, Lt. Vance said.

4:45 UPDATE: Police tell News 8 that Nancy Lanza, the mother of Newtown school shooting suspect Adam Lanza, was found dead in a home on Yogananda St. in Newtown.

Federal law enforcement had originally identified Adam's brother as the gunman.

4:21 UPDATE: AP Reports: "A law enforcement official is now saying the suspect in the Connecticut school shootings is 20-year-old Adam Lanza."

4:05 UPDATE: AP reports: "Law officials: School shooting suspect is 20-year-old son of teacher; older brother questioned."

3:45 UPDATE: Investigators expect to be at Sandy Hook Elementary School throughout the night and Saturday as they try to piece together the deadly shooting Friday.

State police spokesman Lt. J. Paul Vance said 18 children and six adults died at the school, and two children died at the hospital. The suspect was also dead, for a total of 27 dead.

Lt. Vance said the shootings happened in two rooms in one section of the school. "It is not a simplistic scene," he said.

Authorities have not positively identified anyone at this point.

Lt. Vance said there is a lot of information that they can not yet confirm.

3:18 UPDATE: President Obama: "Our hearts are broken today."

2:58 p.m. UPDATE: AP source: Suspect in Connecticut school shootings is 24-year-old; younger brother being held.

2:50 p.m. UPDATE: From ABC : "ABC confirms the mother of suspected shooter Ryan Lanza is among the dead at Newtown (CT) elementary-school mass shooting."

President Obama expected to speak about shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in #Newtown at 3:15 p.m.

2:35 UPDATE: CNN and ABC have identified the Newtown school shooting suspect is Ryan Lanza. He is in his 20s. Connecticut authorities have not officially released any names.

Local and state police have surrounded a home in Newtown in connection with the gunman.

1:50 UPDATE: Connecticut state police confirmed multiple fatalities in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown Friday, including children.

"The public is not in danger," state police spokesman Lt. J. Paul Vance said in a news conference.

Lt. Vance confirmed the gunman is among those dead inside the school. He would not confirm reports that a second gunman was involved.

He said the gunman had a tie to the school, but he did not elaborate.

About 600 students go to Sandy Hook Elementary.

1:30 UPDATE: The Associated Press reports the attacker in the Connecticut school shootings is a 20-year-old man with ties to the school, and one weapon used in the attack was a .223-caliber rifle.


1:25 UPDATE: The Associated Press reports "An official with knowledge of a shooting at a Connecticut elementary school says 27 people are dead, including 18 children."

The gunman is among those dead, according to multiple reports. It's unclear if there was a second gunman.

ABC News ABC's Chris Cuomo reports one shooter was 24 years old, armed with four weapons and wearing a bulletproof vest.

The Connecticut Post reports state medical examiners are asking for help from other states to assist with the dead.

Police were expected to hold a news conference this afternoon to discuss the shooting.

12:45 UPDATE: ABC News reports more than a dozen people, including children, were shot and killed in a school shooting in Newtown this morning.

ABC confirmed the deaths through multiple federal and local officials.

Other towns in the immediate area around Newtown, among them Bethel, Brookfield and Monroe, have put students in lockdown as a precaution.

Gov. Dannel Malloy was on the scene to get a briefing from state and federal authorities.

UPDATE: The Associated Press citing officials, says a gunman has been killed after a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown.

The AP reports the anonymous official said the gunman was armed with two weapons.

The Danbury News-Times also reports sources say the Sandy Hook School principal was killed in the Newtown shooting.

Police have made no official statement yet on deaths or injuries. Police were expected to hold a news conference some time after 12:30 pm. to give official details about what happened.

Gov. Dannel Malloy was heading to the shooting scene. A spokesman said via Twitter "Gov. Malloy just concluded a conference call w/ federal officials offering to provide any assistance the state needs."

NEWTOWN, Conn. (WTNH) -- Students at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown were evacuated form the school this morning after a reported shooting.

There is no confirmation of fatalities by police. Three people have been taken to Danbury Hospital, a hospital official said.

The school is located at 12 Dickinson Drive. Newtown emergency officials are telling parents to stay by their phone, not to go to the school.

A witness told News 8 she saw two children, one had a bloody face, the other with a hand injury.

The children were taken to a nearby fire station, where parents and scores of police and other first responders were staging.

News 8's Kent Pierce reports emergency responders from several towns, along with the FBI, are on the scene.

Gov. Dannel Malloy's office said via Twitter "State Police are coordinating w/ federal & local authorities in Newtown. Will provide add'l updates as they become available."

A photo taken by the Newtown Bee newspaper shows children being led from the school by police. The paper reported one child was carried from the school by a police officer, but police have not confirmed any injuries.

State police spokesman Lt. J. Paul Vance would not confirm what is happening, but he told News 8 that several troopers are responding to the school at the request of Newtown police.

A message posted on the school's website made no mention of the shooting, but said "Afternoon kindergarten is cancelled today, December 14th. There will be no mid-day bus runs."

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[Enlighten]

Wow. This is horrible.

Condolences to all the families involved.

[Heather]

My heart has been broken all day today reading updates, and watching the TV. My heart goes out to the entire community, but most of all to the parents and families of those precious babies that lost their lives. Frank your friends and you are all in my thoughts

[FireStorm]

Anyone who can just go and make shit posts in another thread when no one ever posts at all in there in the global news section ON PURPOSE to me is heartless,and to me it's a straight up dig against me and others who take this to heart right now my american brothers and sisters, and those world wide who share in our pain. tristan It's not like I didn't see your name looking at this thread 30 secs before your post in a non visited thread. Your point hit home, and I get you loud and clear, especially your words to the American players in shoutbox

Tristan-np you know i don't care[Edit | Delete]1Hour Ago 12:52 AM

Read this thread think about what we are soo thankful to have , our children, our nephews , nieces ect. Hug them tell them how much you love, and admire them. You just never know what this life will deal ya. The children loked to us adults to protect them,and they were let down. Help was not there today. 18miles from my house don't seem so far now

[Abdoman]

I agree everyone this hits home if you have any family at all or any love for another this will be in your heart and your thoughts.

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Newtown school shooting suspect was son of teacher
Updated: Friday, 14 Dec 2012, 8:26 PM EST
Published : Friday, 14 Dec 2012, 6:58 PM EST

JASON KEYSER, Associated Press
PETE YOST
(AP) — The man suspected of killing his mother and then gunning down more than two dozen people Friday at the Connecticut elementary school where she taught may have suffered from a personality disorder, law enforcement officials said.

Adam Lanza killed his mother at their home before driving her car to Sandy Hook Elementary School with three weapons — two handguns and a .223-caliber rifle — and carrying out the massacre and killing himself, officials said. Investigators were trying to learn as much as possible about the 20-year-old and questioned his older brother, who is not believed to have any involvement in the rampage.

So far, authorities have not spoken publicly of any possible motive. Witnesses said the shooter didn't utter a word.

Adam Lanza and his mother, Nancy, lived in a well-to-do part of Newtown, a prosperous community of 27,000 people about 60 miles northeast of New York City.

A grandmother of the suspect — who is also the mother of the slain teacher — was too distraught to speak when reached by phone at her home in Brooksville, Fla.

"I just don't know, and I can't make a comment right now," Dorothy Hanson, 78, said in a shaky voice as she started to cry. She said she hadn't heard anything official about her daughter and grandsons. She declined to comment further and hung up.

Adam Lanza's older brother, 24-year-old Ryan Lanza of Hoboken, N.J., was being questioned, a law enforcement official said. He told authorities that his brother was believed to suffer from a personality disorder and be "somewhat autistic" and lived with his mother in Connecticut, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the record about the unfolding investigation.

Ryan Lanza had been extremely cooperative and was not under arrest or in custody, but investigators were still searching his computers and phone records. Ryan Lanza told law enforcement he had not been in touch with his brother since about 2010.

Brett Wilshe, a friend of Ryan Lanza's, said he sent him a Facebook message Friday asking what was going on and if he was OK. According to Wilshe, Lanza's reply was something along the lines of: "It was my brother. I think my mother is dead. Oh my God."

Adam Lanza attended Newtown High School, and several local news clippings from recent years mention his name among the school's honor roll students.

A neighbor in Newtown, Rhonda Cullens, said she knew Nancy Lanza from monthly get-togethers the neighborhood women had a few years back for games of bunco, a dice game.

"She was a very nice lady," Cullens said. "She was just like all the rest of us in the neighborhood, just a regular person."

Cullens recalled that Lanza liked to garden and to make her house look nice for the holidays. Lanza joked, though, that no one noticed because the house was out of view, up a hill, she said.

Sandeep Kapur, who lives two doors down from the Lanza family in Newtown, said he did not know them and was unaware of any disturbances at the Lanza house in the three years that he and his family have been in the neighborhood.

He described the area as a subdivision of well-tended, 15-year-old homes on lots of an acre or more, where many people work at companies like General Electric, Pepsi and IBM. Some are doctors, and his next-door neighbor is a bank CEO, said Kapur, a project manager at an information technology firm.

"The neighborhood's great. We have young kids, and they have lots of friends," he said. "If you drive past this neighborhood, it gives you a really warm feeling."

[razvitory]

omg i feel sorry for all them people and i know the kids are in heaven in a better place.God take good care of them

[FireStorm]

What kiils me even more is that the parents of the children probably bought presents under the tree. Christmas won't be the same for me. Last night we tried to get to the church for the midnight vigil,but with the press, onlookers and police it was impossable to get through. We will try and go again this afternoon to show our support. Haven't been able to talk with my brother who is a connecticut state trooper,and is probably with one of the victims families. A trooper was dispatched to each pf the victims famlies, to help them get through these hard times right now. I can't even imagine what he is going through,especiallly being close to 3 of these families who lost their children

[razvitory]

its unreal man i dont have a kid but i imagine whats in theyr heart pain and darkness ((((