Shooting at a Primary School in the US

A heavily armed man invaded a Newtown, Conn., elementary school today, killing his mother and 26 others, mostly children, federal and state sources tell ABC News.
The gunman, identified as Ryan Lanza, 24, of New Jersey, was killed inside of the school.
In addition to the casualties at the school, a dead body was also found in his home, officials said. Sources said Lanza was armed with four weapons and wearing a bullet-proof vest when he opened fire in the elementary school.
Among the dead was the gunman's mother, found in the school, sources told ABC News.
"The shooter is deceased inside the building," Connecticut State Police spokesman Lt. Paul Vance said at a news conference. "The public is not in danger."
Authorities initially believed that there were two gunmen and were searching cars around the school.
First grade teacher Kaitlin Roig, 29, locked her 14 students in a classroom bathroom and listened to "tons of shooting" until police came to help.
"It was horrific," Roig said. "I thought we were going to die."
She said that the terrified kids were saying, "I just want Christmas…I don't want to die. I just want to have Christmas."
The massacre prompted the town of Newtown to lock down all its schools and draw SWAT teams to the school, authorities said today.
President Obama was briefed on the shooting by FBI Director Robert Mueller.
It's unclear how many people have been shot, but 27 people, mostly children, are dead, multiple federal and state sources tell ABC News. That number could rise, officials said.

It is the second worst mass shooting in U.S. history, exceeded only by the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007 when 32 were killed before the shooter turned the gun on himself. Today's carnage exceeds the 1999 Columbine High School shooting in which 13 died and 24 were injured.
The Newtown shooting comes three days after masked gunman Jacob Roberts opened fire in a busy Oregon mall, killing two before turning the gun on himself.
Today's shooting occurred at the Sandy Hook Elementary School, which includes 450 students in grades K-4. The town is located about 12 miles east of Danbury.
State Police received the first 911 call at 9:41 a.m. and immediately began sending emergency units from the western part of the state. Initial 911 calls stated that multiple students were trapped in a classroom, possibly with a gunman, according to a Connecticut State Police source.
Vance said that on-duty and off-duty officers swarmed to the school and quickly checked "every door, every crack, every crevice" in the building looking for the gunman and evacuating children.
A photo from the scene shows a line of distressed children being led out of the school.
Three patients have been taken to Danbury Hospital, which is also on lockdown, according to the hospital's Facebook page.
"Out of abundance of caution and not because of any direct threat Danbury Hospital is under lockdown," the statement said. "This allows us simply to focus on the important work at hand."
Newtown Public School District secretary of superintendent Kathy June said in a statement that the district's schools were locked down because of the report of a shooting. "The district is taking preventive measures by putting all schools in lockdown until we ensure the safety of all students and staff," she said.
State police sent SWAT team units to Newtown.
All public and private schools in the town were on lockdown.
"We have increased our police presence at all Danbury Public Schools due to the events in Newtown. Pray for the victims," Newtown Mayor Boughton tweeted.
State emergency management officials said ambulances and other units were also en route and staging near the school.
A message on the school district website says that all afternoon kindergarten is cancelled today and there will be no midday bus runs.

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Those kids saying they 'just want to have Christmas' is painful to read.

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Seriously? We're turning this into another conspiracy thread instead of just paying respect to those poor innocent children and teachers who were murdered?
What's really more likely, that this was government mind control or a psycho who has taken advantage of America's lax gun laws?


Terrible terrible thing, my heart goes out to those families.

I just can't imagine (nor do I want to) what would possess someone to do that. You want to take your own life but why take it out on little children? That's the horrible thing too, there will be no answers because the coward is gone. He can't face justice or face the families.

Please change the thread title...the guy was Adam lanza...ryan, his brother, was not the shooter...seems the brother had the guys ID on him..maybe on purpose? That's what I see on the news

How about help the youth with their problems...so they do not lose it and kill.

ASA/Peace,

As a mother of children of elementary/primary school age, my heart goes out to those affected by this awful crime.
May Allah (swt)) shower his mercy upon us all.

People are asking a question nobody knows the answer to: "WHY?"


"I swear by He in Whose Hands is my Soul! The world will not pass until the people face a time when the killer does not know why he killed, and the victim does not know why he was killed." -Sahih Muslim

Anything can go wrong in this world and one can only hope that unfortunate events do not fall on them. May be these shooters were fed up by the decadence in today's society.

But the alarming fact is that the Aurora and Newtown shooters are the same age as me. I'm wondering to myself if I have the same propensity to express my anger through these acts of violence.

format_quote Originally Posted by Jedi_Mindset

The youth get incluenced by war movies and games like Call of duty and battlefield. Making them more aggresive and more wanting to become a ''soldier''.

You are exactly correct. By the way the .223 caliber rifle used was most likely an AR-15 which is a civilian version of the M-16 used by the US Army during the Vietnam War. I fear that this is just a foretaste of the widespread killing before the Last Day.