School shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut
Full coverage of the deadly shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. on Dec. 14, 2012
A shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2012, killed 27 people, including 20 children, law enforcement sources said.
The dead at Sandy Hook Elementary, about 60 miles northeast of New York City, included the suspected gunman. One other person was injured. Police said that the shootings were carried out in two rooms, located in the same section of the school. They said 18 of the children had died at the scene, and two more died after being taken to hospitals.
In addition, police described a “secondary crime scene,” elsewhere in Newtown, where another adult was found dead. A Connecticut State Police spokesman, Lt. J. Paul Vance, did not give details about how the two incidents were connected.
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