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CBS News: 27 Dead, Including 18 Children, In Elementary School Shooting (Father was shooter)
CBS ^ | 12.14.2012 | CBS

Posted on 12/14/2012 10:40:10 AM PST by Morgana

NEWTOWN, Conn. (CBS Connecticut/AP) — CBS News is reporting that 27 people are dead, including 18 students, after a mass shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. The gunman is among the dead.

CBS News’ John Miller reports there is preliminary information that the gunman was the father of one of the students. Miller additionally reports the gunman is 20 years old and is from New Jersey.

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 is not known whether the shooter took his own life or was killed.

CBS News reports that a second person is in custody and that SWAT is now investigating the home of the suspect.

A witness tells WFSB-TV that a second man was taken out of the woods in handcuffs wearing a black jacket and camouflage pants and telling parents on the scene, “I did not do it.”

Fox Connecticut reports that the shooting began in the kindergarten classroom.

“It’s just a bad situation,” Newtown Assistant Fire Chief Kevin Stoyak told CBS 2.

Two students and a teacher were also injured in the shooting and they were taken to Dansbury Hospital, spokeswoman Diane Burke told CBS News York.

(Excerpt) Read more at connecticut.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: arth; co; connecticut; homeschool; mask; maskedman; sandyhook; school; shooting
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"CBS News’ John Miller reports there is preliminary information that the gunman was the father of one of the students. "
1 posted on 12/14/2012 10:40:22 AM PST by Morgana
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To: Pollster1

“The shooter was 20 y/o and had an elementary school child? How did that turn out badly? “

He had the kid when he was 16? They did say most kids hurt/killed were in Kindergarten. That would fit.


3 posted on 12/14/2012 10:48:14 AM PST by Morgana (Time to play cowboys and muslims.)
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To: Pollster1

Plus must schools have pre school for ages 3 and 4. So yea he could have a kid in Elementary school at age 20..

After Clinton I’d believe anything.


4 posted on 12/14/2012 10:49:29 AM PST by Morgana (Time to play cowboys and muslims.)
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To: Morgana

Praying hard for those poor people.. can’t even imagine...


5 posted on 12/14/2012 10:50:37 AM PST by gibsosa
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To: Morgana

good thing it was against the law for him to have a gun there


6 posted on 12/14/2012 10:50:47 AM PST by Mr. K (some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help...)
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To: metmom

If ever a reason to homeschool????


7 posted on 12/14/2012 10:52:09 AM PST by Morgana (Time to play cowboys and muslims.)
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To: Mr. K
Considering the event that is being reported, I don't think sarcasm is appropriate.

JMHO

8 posted on 12/14/2012 10:52:20 AM PST by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds.)
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To: P-Marlowe
Considering the event that is being reported, I don't think sarcasm is appropriate.

JMHO

True, but look at your tagline.

9 posted on 12/14/2012 10:54:49 AM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Morgana

Beslan.

Say that name to most Americans and get a blank look.


10 posted on 12/14/2012 10:55:51 AM PST by Mr. Silverback (Cigarettes are like squirrels: Perfectly harmless until you put one in your mouth and set it on fire)
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To: Morgana
Just found out that my great niece was in the school. She is home safe.

I'm shaken just knowing she was there. I can't imagine how the parents feel.

11 posted on 12/14/2012 10:56:03 AM PST by NEPA (Give me liberty, not debt)
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To: Morgana

I knew a guy who had grandchildren when he was 32.


12 posted on 12/14/2012 10:56:16 AM PST by HarleyD
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To: NEPA

good to here she’s safe....


13 posted on 12/14/2012 10:58:59 AM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Morgana
“The shooter was 20 y/o and had an elementary school child? How did that turn out badly? “

In this day and age,I guess it's a miracle the mother wasn't one of his teachers from junior high!

14 posted on 12/14/2012 10:58:59 AM PST by massmike (At least no one is wearing a "Ron Paul - 2016" tee shirt........yet!)
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To: Morgana; All
BTW, previous post is not meant to ID this as a Muslim attack, it's meant to point out that most Americans have no thought enter their minds that their kids spend every weekday in a location where they would be easy targets and no one will be in a position to defend them.
15 posted on 12/14/2012 10:59:15 AM PST by Mr. Silverback (Cigarettes are like squirrels: Perfectly harmless until you put one in your mouth and set it on fire)
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To: Mr. Silverback
Yup. That went through my mind.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

16 posted on 12/14/2012 10:59:31 AM PST by wku man (Who says conservatives don't rock? http://www.bigdawgmusicmafia.com)
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To: HarleyD

Did a GOOGLE search for Beslan, from some Balkan Russian area, another school hostage crisis in 2004..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan


17 posted on 12/14/2012 10:59:47 AM PST by rovenstinez
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To: HarleyD

Did a GOOGLE search for Beslan, from some Balkan Russian area, another school hostage crisis in 2004..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan


18 posted on 12/14/2012 10:59:50 AM PST by rovenstinez
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To: Morgana

Here in GA there are Pre-K classes at the elementary schools as well.


19 posted on 12/14/2012 11:01:01 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: HarleyD

‘Grandchildren at 32’ — yes, you bet. When I had our son, my roommate was about 18 and her mom, the new grandma, was 38 or so. (As was I).


20 posted on 12/14/2012 11:01:15 AM PST by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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