12:56 p.m. EST, December 14, 2012
NEWTOWN—

Twenty-seven people, including 18 children, have been killed in a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, according to the Associated Press.

The report cites an official with knowledge of the situation.

Sources told The Courant that there are at least 20 shooting victims. Many of the shootings took place in a kindergarten classroom, sources said.

One entire classroom is unaccounted for, sources said.

A person believed to be a shooter is dead. Earlier reports of a second shooter are unconfirmed.

The Associated Press is reporting that 27 people are dead, including 18 children.

Three people were brought to Danbury Hospital, but their condition is unknown. The emergency room is on lockdown.

Police were still searching the school at 11 a.m., and police dogs had been brought in. Around noon, the triage area was broken down, stretchers were taken away and the SWAT team left the building.

Shortly after 9:40 a.m., police reported that a shooter was in the main office of the school. A person in one room had “numerous gunshot wounds,” police said.

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., parents said.

School and local emergency officials are accounting for the children, who will be released to their parents to get them home. A staging area has been set up at the Sandy Hook fire department, directly in front of the school.

Frustrated parents are trying to get information from officials, who are still actively searching the school.

Eight-year-old 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," she said.

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.

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.

Area hospitals have been alerted.

Andrew Doba, a spokesman for Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, said the governor is monitoring the situation and is in “constant contact” with state police, who are coordinating with federal and local officials. Malloy will travel to Newtown later today, he said.

Afternoon buses and kindergarten has been cancelled.

http://www.courant.com/news/breaking/hc-...0,3969911.story

Oh my heavens. This is horrible.

There is a festering rot in the soul of this country that I fear cannot be excised. God help us all.

Prayers up for all involved.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/dozen-killed-in...36#.UMtsWObn8d5

100's of shots . . .

Many Families at the nearby fire station still do not know the status of their children.

They have no idea and are not being told anything . . .

Unimaginable . . . worried about my son . . .

What are you going to say to your son?

I haven't thought about that yet.

Schools are in lock-down.

One shooter dead.

Not sure if another shooter . . .

31 school shootings since Columbine in 1999.

Zitat

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More than two dozen people, mostly elementary school children, were shot and killed at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school this morning, federal and state sources tell ABC News.

The massacre involved two gunmen at a Connecticut school this morning, prompting the town of Newtown to lock down all of its schools and draw SWAT teams to the school, authorities said today.

State Police confirm that one shooter is dead. A second gunman is apparently at large. Car-to-car searches are underway.

It's unclear how many people have been shot, but 25 people, mostly children are dead, multiple federal and state sources tell ABC News. That number could rise, officials said.

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Yes, FP, prayers.

This is reminding me more and more of the Jimmah Carter era. Cities falling apart, rampant crime and violence, and this kind of horrible stuff. Scary times.

(Of course, it wasn't all Jimmah's fault, nor did it begin and end with his presidency).

This story is getting worse by the minute. What a fitting tragedy for a sick world!

ABC video ongoing on the incident here:

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31 school shootings since Columbine in 1999.

The globalists seem to be ramping up such incidents . . . whether directly or indirectly through all their violence memes in the movies etc.

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Yes, FP, prayers.

This is reminding me more and more of the Jimmah Carter era. Cities falling apart, rampant crime and violence, and this kind of horrible stuff. Scary times.

(Of course, it wasn't all Jimmah's fault, nor did it begin and end with his presidency).

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Prayers up for all involved.

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Quote: Sanguine wrote in post #6

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Yes, FP, prayers.

This is reminding me more and more of the Jimmah Carter era. Cities falling apart, rampant crime and violence, and this kind of horrible stuff. Scary times.

(Of course, it wasn't all Jimmah's fault, nor did it begin and end with his presidency).

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This is one of those incidents that still is shocking and stunning to me, even in this day and age.
I have that hollow pit in my stomach feeling ever since I read this article.

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Words fail me. My prayers go out to all those involved especially those who lost children in this horrible tragedy. The survivors, too, as they will have emotional scars from this that may never heal. My prayers also go out for our country as incidents like this seem to be occurring more frequently and with greater loss of life. I am totally uncertain as to why this is happening but perceive a spirit of satanic destruction stalking the land. May God help us all.

Am I the only one . . . who sees a line of children led like that across a parking lot in such a situation

as a VERY BAD IDEA?

What a great 'target of opportunity' from a shooter's perspective.

Wouldn't it be better to coach the children to scatter across the parking lot with erratic steps and broad dispersal?