Elementary School Shooting

[AUChizad]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/14/sandy-hook-elementary-school-shooting_n_2300831.html

Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting: Newtown, Connecticut Administrators, Students Among Victims, Reports Say

Police reported a shooting Friday morning at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

Authorities in Connecticut responded to a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown Friday morning, the local NBC station reports.

Police reported multiple deaths, several wounded children and at least one injured teacher, according to the Hartford Courant.

One gunman is dead, authorities told ABC News. Two guns were recovered from the shooter, according to CNN.

Unconfirmed reports say that principal Dawn Hochsprung and a school psychologist were killed, according to a parent who claimed to witness part of the attack, CNN reported.

CBS reports that a student's father was the shooter.

A hospital representative in Danbury told NBC that medical facilities admitted three victims from Sandy Hook School.

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Reports say that the alleged shooter appeared in the building's main office at about 9:40 a.m., approximately 30 minutes after the school day began.

The initial 911 call said that students were trapped in a classroom with the adult shooter who had two guns, according to WABC.

Students were escorted out of the building single-file. There are approximately 626 students enrolled in kindergarten through 4th grade classes at Sandy Hook Elementary, with another 46 faculty members, Newtown Patch reported.

More from the Associated Press:

   

NEWTOWN, Conn. — A shooting at a Connecticut elementary school Friday left the gunman dead and at least one teacher wounded and sent frightened pupils into the parking lot.

    The shooter was killed and apparently had two guns, a person with knowledge of the shooting said. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation was still under way.

    It wasn't clear how many people were injured at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. A dispatcher at the Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps said a teacher had been shot in the foot and taken to Danbury Hospital.

    Stephen Delgiadice said his 8-year-old daughter heard two big bangs and teachers told her to get in a corner. His daughter was fine.

    "It's alarming, especially in Newtown, Connecticut, which we always thought was the safest place in America," he said.

    The superintendent's office said the district had locked down schools in Newtown, about 60 miles northeast of New York City. Schools in neighboring towns also were locked down as a precaution.

    State police said Newtown police called them around 9:40 a.m.

    A photo posted by The Newtown Bee newspaper showed a group of young students – some crying, others looking visibly frightened – being escorted by adults through a parking lot in a line, hands on each other's shoulders.

[Tiger Wench]

Right at the top of my list of a parent's worst nightmare...

[Snaggletiger]

Fox News reporting 26 dead and 18 injured. 

[Townhallsavoy]

Fox News reporting 26 dead and 18 injured.

Absolutely sickening, but not surprising.  This shit just keeps happening.  So sad. 

[Townhallsavoy]

And while the death toll adds up, the news networks are putting microphones and cameras in the faces of children.  God damnit. 

[Tiger Wench]

And while the death toll adds up, the news networks are putting microphones and cameras in the faces of children.  God damnit.

Fuckers.

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.

Who DOES THIS???  You want to kill another adult, that ain't right, but an adult may have a fighting chance.  Kids didn't do ANYTHING to you.  NOTHING justifies this.

Makes me want to go get my two out of school.

[Townhallsavoy]

Fuckers.
 

Who DOES THIS???  You want to kill another adult, that ain't right, but an adult may have a fighting chance.  Kids didn't do ANYTHING to you.  NOTHING justifies this.

Makes me want to go get my two out of school.

Early reports are that it's a father of one of the kids who lost custody. 

[Townhallsavoy]

I just don't know what we can do about:

@mbyhoff 31 U.S. school shootings since Columbine. School shootings in every other country in the world combined since that time: 14.

Why are we shooting up our schools?  Why do kids attempt to murder their classmates? 

Also, it looks like two shooters involved.  One is dead; one is arrested. 

[Snaggletiger]

I see the headline and  but in all honesty, I think we've almost become numb to this sort of thing.  Two kids walk into their high school and start blowing away fellow students.  A guy hates a politician so he goes to a mall where she's at and starts busting off caps in people, including children.  Premier of a movie....think I'll walk in and waste everybody in sight. 

The expression of not being able to "wrap my mind around it" really holds true for me when I see shit like this.  What is it about the human psyche that says I've got shit wrong in my life....so I I'll just go kill a bunch of innocent people that I don't know?  Yeah, that'll fix things.   

[Townhallsavoy]

Snags -

This one messed me up pretty bad. Not only because of it being young children involved, but because when I first read the initial reports, I thought, "Oh, some disgruntled employee shot up his principal, vice principal, and school counselor.  Sucks that it was in a school, but this happens."

We really are numb to it.  And I'll admit that if it were high schoolers involved, I wouldn't be that affected. 

I had to look up where the mall shooting was.  I forgot.  Oregon.  Could have been any state.  Doesn't make a difference. 

[Snaggletiger]

Snags -

This one messed me up pretty bad. Not only because of it being young children involved, but because when I first read the initial reports, I thought, "Oh, some disgruntled employee shot up his principal, vice principal, and school counselor.  Sucks that it was in a school, but this happens."

We really are numb to it.  And I'll admit that if it were high schoolers involved, I wouldn't be that affected. 

I had to look up where the mall shooting was.  I forgot.  Oregon.  Could have been any state.  Doesn't make a difference.

No doubt.  The wife taught 2nd grade for 26 years.  Home schooling our boy this year. Just heard that the room he/they opened fire in was a Kindergarten classroom.  Small children.  WTF?  Just WTF? 

[Tiger Wench]

Early reports are that it's a father of one of the kids who lost custody.

So if he can't have him/her, no one can.  Oh, and let's ruin the lives of another 17 sets of parents while we are at it.  That'll show 'em.

[Token]

God damn this makes me sick.

[WiregrassTiger]

The question I have is why do we seemingly have this much more mental illness than other countries? Any person that would do this is obviously completely screwed up. Most of us will prob have a screw or two loose at some point in our life, but we still know the difference between right and wrong. The morons who do this type of thing are likely too far gone for any counseling. This is just something to add to the growing list of our major problems in this country.

I cannot fathom what these parents are going through. There is no place to direct the anger.

[Townhallsavoy]

Turns out that he had parent issues.  He left New Jersey and travelled to Connecticut to shoot up his mother's classroom.

What the fuck. 

[Saniflush]

Why that other motherfucker is in custody I have no idea?  He should have already been take out back and had one put behind his ear.

[Townhallsavoy]

Well, supposedly he had nothing to do with it.  Literally wrong place, wrong time, wrong outfit.

But who knows with the media.

Speaking of the shit media, they put a picture up of a Ryan Lanza.  One problem.  It wasn't THE Ryan Lanza the shooter. 

Sucks for that guy. 

[Snaggletiger]

Not just in America.  Remember last year in Norway when a guy set off a bomb at some government building (I believe) then went to an island youth camp where he calmly and systematically blew away about 80 kids and counselors?

[Tiger Wench]

Turns out that he had parent issues.  He left New Jersey and travelled to Connecticut to shoot up his mother's classroom.

What the fuck.

Kill your mom, then shoot yourself. Bad enough at that (other than the second part).  Or just walk in and shoot yourself.  Same outcome.  Maybe some messed up kids, but at least they are alive.

But killing all her young students, destroying hundreds of lives, traumatizing hundreds of other kids...

That's my son's age.  I can all too easily imagine what those little kindergarten kids must have thought as he gunned them down - if I am one of those poor parents, that haunts me to an early grave. Was my son scared?  Did my daughter suffer?  Dear God. 

UPDATE:  He also killed his father before driving to CT and taking out his mom.

[The Six]

So sad and so pointless this is