The United States is in shock after a mass shooting left 26 people in Connecticut dead, including 20 children.(20 children and 6 adults shot dead, including popular principal Dawn Hochsprung (47) )at the 'Sandy Hook Elementary School',Newtown on Friday 9.30 A M Dec 14,2012
School Shooting Victims
1) Charlotte Bacon(6)
2) Dylan Hockley(6)
3) Ana Marquez-Green(6)
4) Olivia Engel(6)
5) Madeleine Hsu(6)
6) Catherine Hubbard(6)
7) Jesse Lewis(6)
8) James Mattioli(6)
9) Emilie Parker(6)
10) Jack Pinto(6)
11) Caroline Previdi(6)
12) Noah Pozner(6)
13) Jessica Rekos(6)
14) Avielle Richman(6)
15) Benjamin Wheeler(6)
16)Allison Wyatt(6)
17) Daniel Barden(7)
18) Josephine Gay(7)
19) Chase Kowalski
20) Grace McDonnell(7)
21) Mary Sherlach(56)
22) Anne Marie Murphy(52)
23) Dawn Hochsprung(47)
24) Lauren Russo(30)
25) Rachel Davino(29)
26) Victoria Soto(27)
The suspect reported Adam Lanza(20) shot and killed his mother Nancy Lanza at their home in Newtown (not clear why Lanza killed his mother)
After killing his mother, Lanza drove her car to the school, which has about 700 pupils aged between 5 and 10.He was armed with at least three weapons and dressed in black fatigues
At about 09:30, Lanza forced his way into the school, police now say, contrary to earlier reports that he had been let in.
A school employee ran through the halls, warning of a gunman on the loose, and someone switched on the intercom, alerting people in the building to the attack by letting them hear the mayhem in the school office, a teacher told
Newtown police were notified of shooting at the 'Sandy Hook Elementary School' over their radios at 09:36.Friday Dec 14,2012
Police arrived at the school soon after 09:40 local time (14:40 GMT) on Friday, answering reports that a gunman was in the school's main office and one person had "numerous gunshot wounds".
The victims were all shot by a high-powered rifle, medical examiner H Wayne Carver said on Saturday Dec15,2012
President Barack Obama wiped tears from his eyes as he spoke of the "overwhelming grief" at the loss of life.
An emotional President Barack Obama cited those incidents as he called for "meaningful action... regardless of politics".
"Our hearts are broken today, for the parents, grandparents, sisters and brothers of these children, and for the families of the adults who were lost."
Obama offered condolences to the families of survivors too, saying "their children's innocence has been torn away from them too early, and there are no words that will ease their pain".
The American flags on Capitol Hill were lowered to half-mast in the wake of the attack.
Deadly US Mass Shootings
- Connecticut School Shooting is the 3rd major gun attack in the US in 2012.
- 6 people died at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin in Aug 2012
- 12 killed at a premiere of a Batman film in Aurora, Colorado in July 2012
- 13 people are killed in a mass shooting at Fort Hood military base in Texas in 2009
- A student kills 32 and injures dozens more at Virginia Tech university in 2007
- Two students at Columbine high school kill 13 and injure 20, before killing themselves in 1999
- George Hennard kills 23 people at a cafeteria in Texas in 1991
- Postal worker Pat Sherrill kills 14 people at post office in Oklahoma in 1986
- James Oliver Huberty shoots dead 21 people at a McDonald's in California in 1984
President Barack Obama pauses during a speech at an interfaith vigil for the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting on Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012
Firefighters stand as the procession heads to the cemetery outside the funeral for school shooting victim Daniel Gerard Barden at St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church in Newtown, Conn., Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012. According to firefighters, Daniel wanted to be a firefighter when he grew up and they honored him at the service.
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