20 elementary school children and 8 adults killed in Connecticut
Children ushered out of the school building by adults. Photo: Foxnews
NEWMAN, USA - Twenty-seven people, including 20
children, were killed Friday when a gunman clad in black military bullet-proof gear
opened fire inside his mother's kindergarten class at a Connecticut
elementary school. The shooter, who sources identified as
Adam Lanza, 20, shot his mother, Nancy Lanza, in the face at their home
in Newtown, Conn., then went to nearby Sandy Hook Elementary School
where she taught and gunned down her entire class, according to sources.
Lanza was found dead inside the school, according to
officials. Eighteen of the children and six more adults were dead at the
school and two more children died later, according to Connecticut State
Police Lt. Paul Vance.
Four
weapons in total were recovered from the scene including a .223-caliber rifle. The motive is not yet
known.
President Obama was clearly devastated by reports of the incident. "Our hearts are broken today," Obama said in a brief address to the nation on Friday. "We've
endured too many of these tragedies in these past few years, and each
time I receive the news I react not as a president, but as a parent." "Most victims were children, between five and 10 years old...They had
their entire lives ahead of them, birthdays, graduations weddings, kids
of their own," he said, pausing before wiping tears from his eyes.
The school is in Fairfield county, about 45 miles southwest of Hartford and 60 miles northeast of New York City has about 700 students aged 5 to 10 on roll.
Newtown is now one of the worst US school shootings. The similar tragic shooting have occurred in America, Here is the toll:
1984: James Oliver Huberty shoots dead 21 people at a McDonald's in California
1986: Postal worker Pat Sherrill kills 14 people at post office in Oklahoma
1991: George Hennard kills 23 people at a cafeteria in Texas
1999: Two students at Columbine high school kill 13 and injure 20, before killing themselves
2007: A student kills 32 and injures dozens more at Virginia Tech university
2009: 13 people are killed in a mass shooting at Ford Hood military base in Texas
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