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Update1: Devastation by parents as number of children killed may top 10 20. Witness said hundred rounds fired.
School principal and teacher among those killed. A whole class of kids unaccounted for. Fears for the worst.
Gunman is 20 year-old Adam Lanza and is connected to the school. The gun used is a .223 caliber Bushmaster automatic rifle.

Update2: Original title deleted – “School Kids Should Be Armed”

Update3: The man identified in media reports as the shooter, Ryan Lanza, has told friends that he thinks his developmentally disabled brother (Adam Lanza)
may have committed the crime, Newtown Patch has learned. See comment below, psychiatry and “Asperger Syndrome.”

A neighbour told CNN the son was a troubled person and the parents were divorced in 2009.

Sources: Multiple Deaths, Including Children, At Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

Newtown, CT (Hartford Courant) – [Hart]breaking news – Multiple people, including children, have been killed in a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The number of victims is unclear. Many of the shootings took place in a kindergarten classroom, sources said.

A person believed to be a shooter is dead. Earlier reports of a second shooter are unconfirmed. Police were still searching the school at 11 a.m., and police dogs had been brought in.

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.

Photo’s at scene of shooting in Newtown, CT

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.

Schools in the area are in lock-down and hightened security as standard procedure.

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