Connecticut Elementary School Massacre

EtherealSummoner · Dec 14, 2012

Elementary school massacre: 27 killed, including 20 kids, at Connecticut school - U.S. News

A teacher's son -- clad in black and carrying two pistols -- rampaged through a Connecticut elementary school Friday, killing 20 small children and six adults, including his mother, in the nation’s second-worst school shooting, law enforcement officials said.
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The gunman, identified as Adam Lanza, 20, was also found dead at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, law enforcement officials said. Officials initially told NBC News the gunman was Lanza's brother, Ryan, who is cooperating with investigators and said Adam has a history of mental illness, according to a senior official.
An unidentified woman was also found fatally shot in the face at a home in Newtown after police showed up with there a bomb squad, officials said.

Lanza's mother is a kindergarten teacher at the hilltop school, and most of the dead were found inside her classroom, according to NBCNewYork.com.
Some young survivors -- ages 5 to 10 -- described the terror of the shooting and a massive police response that included SWAT officers going room to room to search for victims as students huddled in classroom corners.
Robert Licata said his 6-year-old son was in class when the gunman burst in and shot the teacher.
"That's when my son grabbed a bunch of his friends and ran out the door," he told the Associated Press. "He was very brave."
One student told NBC Connecticut she was in the gym when she heard “seven loud booms.”
“The gym teachers told us to go in the corner, so we all huddled,” she said. "And I kept hearing these booming noises. And we all … started crying.
"All the gym teachers told us to go into the office where no one could find us," she added. "So then a police officer came in and told us to run outside. So we did and we came in the firehouse.”

The high death toll and the tender age of many victims sent shock waves all the way to the White House, where the flag was lowered to half-staff.
President Obama, his voice cracking at times, said he reacted to the tragedy first as a parent.
“Our hearts are broken today,'' he said. “The majority of those who died today were children. Beautiful little kids between the ages of five and ten years old.”
Authorities in the small bedroom community 60 miles from New York City were alerted to the unfolding carnage by a 911 call around 9:30 a.m., and then reached out to state police and neighboring police departments for help.

Connecticut State Police Lt. Paul Vance said troopers fanned out across the school and searched “every door, every crack, every crevice” of the building.
Most of the bodies were found in two rooms in one section of the 600-student school, which goes up to the fourth grade.
Two children were taken to Danbury Hospital, but they died. A third person was being treated at the hospital, which went into lockdown mode and cleared trauma rooms as doctors waited for an influx of survivors that never came.
After police finished searching the school and determined there was only one gunman, they led the children outside, telling them to close their eyes, apparently to avoid seeing anything gruesome.
At a staging area ringed by police vehicles that raced to the school from across the state, the dazed and crying kids were reunited with worried loved ones.
Brenda Lebinski, mother of a third-grader, said she found a “horrendous” scene.
“Everyone was in hysterics - parents, students. There were kids coming out of the school bloodied. I don't know if they were shot, but they were bloodied,'' she said, according to Reuters...
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I stopped the quote right there since there is more but right now, this is utterly ridiculous.

Angel · Dec 14, 2012

That's really saddening! I'm at a loss for words.

Kitty · Dec 14, 2012

This is sick and completely nonsensical.

You hear a lot about teenagers or college kids going into their own schools and shooting the place up, and while that's just as wrong, I can at least usually understand where the gunman is coming from (usually there seems to be some bullying involved, which isn't an excuse, of course, but at least it almost makes sense of the event). But this... what reason could you possibly have for shooting these little babies? My nephew is in kindergarten- he could have been in that school. It's just unbelievable.

Become · Dec 16, 2012

A rather horrifying development in this tragic event....

Westboro Baptist Church to protest in Newtown when Obama visits on Sunday - National Conservative | Examiner.com

Not sure how much truth is in this article, but it's definitely no out of the realm of belief. Apparently the folks of the Westboro Baptist Church are going to use this event as a protest point. A new low for them, if I do say so myself.

Kitty · Dec 16, 2012

So is the church actually saying that it was God's will to kill all of these tiny babies and are protesting to praise Him for it?

And my opinion of organized religion just sunk even lower.

This event is horrific enough, and it makes me sick that there are people out there who are going to try to capitalize on it and use it to further their own agendas. Leave these families to grieve in peace.

Moogle · Dec 16, 2012

As much as I don't like organized religion, WBC has nothing to do with any church. Or rather, any church would have nothing to do with WBC. WBC is an inbred collective of hate-mongering fools who capitalize on lawsuits that people bring against them in order to further fund their hateful ventures. They are not a church. They are a cult.

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