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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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To: raccoonradio

among his likes “Guns ‘n’Roses”
“The World Ends in 2012 Guns n Roses Live”


61 posted on 12/14/2012 11:35:50 AM PST by raccoonradio
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To: Renegade

Sarah Brady, Chuckie Schumer and Dianne Feinstien are putting on their blood dancing shoes...


62 posted on 12/14/2012 11:37:02 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (SAVE THE SUMATRAN RAT MONKEY!)
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To: soycd

Just tears- no words- heart sick for all especially the little innocents-

May God help us-please...

Suzy in CT


63 posted on 12/14/2012 11:39:30 AM PST by homegroan (Veni, Vedi, Velcro and Ranting...since 1998)
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To: Mr. K

Pretty sure bet that the shooter was very expert at video games and all the killing in a fantasy world. Probably accumulated years in front of the TV screen.


64 posted on 12/14/2012 11:40:21 AM PST by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: Mr. K; fish hawk; xzins; wagglebee

There are ways to post comments about the liberal media’s reaction to this event without resorting to sarcasm. I just think it is inappropriate to joke around in any manner after 18 or more little children have been slaughtered. This is too solemn an event to poison with veiled attempts at humor through the filter of sarcasm.

Yes the Media is going to try to blame gun control or the Tea Party or do anything they can to make this a political issue. Right now, however it is a tragedy which should leave most of us at a loss for words.

I frankly don’t know what to say. There’s really nothing that can be said except to raise up the families in prayer and respect the memories of those children who are the victims in this tragedy.

There is a time to laugh and a time to cry. This is one of those times where we must cry.

IMHO we need to be very careful about the tenor of our comments.

Carry on.


66 posted on 12/14/2012 11:41:03 AM PST by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds.)
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To: Mr. K

Heard some reporter TSK TSKing because the kids were frightened by all those weapons the police had.


67 posted on 12/14/2012 11:41:09 AM PST by ArmstedFragg (hoaxy dopey changey)
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To: rusty schucklefurd
Do you really think that there have never been homeschooled kids murdered in their own homes?

Go ahead and cite one. Heck, go ahead and cite 13, which would equal the death toll of the single shooting at Columbine.

And while you're at it, make sure you cite a case where a homeschooling parent shot and killed 27 people who happened to be concentrated in single building.

If not, adopt coprophagia and go to DU.

68 posted on 12/14/2012 11:44:10 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
It is not known whether the shooter took his own life or was killed.

This is strange. It seems it would be easy to determine.

69 posted on 12/14/2012 11:46:39 AM PST by skeeter
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To: George from New England

The theory that video game trigger time leads to violence has been disproven.


70 posted on 12/14/2012 11:47:19 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: STD

What delusional world do you live in? Sometimes, staggeringly evil events take place and are a random act, not a component of some massive conspiracy.

Restrictive gun laws will not stop mass murders such as this tragedy. Removing insane people, such as this shooter, from the population in advance, will.


71 posted on 12/14/2012 11:48:00 AM PST by DickBrannigan (When did logic become reversed, and right became wrong, and wrong became right?)
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To: Renegade
CBS commentators are salivating with mention of reinstating the ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN and mentioning the NRA

The master-minds at CBS believe if America is disarmed, events like today in Newtown CT will not happen. But of course local police, state police, federal agents, customs agents, IRS agents, arson investigators, US Marshals, Border Patrol, TSA, airline pilots, FBI agents, game wardens, federal building guards, prison guards, DEA agents, and most criminals will have guns. Right?

72 posted on 12/14/2012 11:49:42 AM PST by Rapscallion ( OBAMA: You own it now. See if you can govern it.)
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To: STD

Revelations 13:13 “One of its heads seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled as they followed the beast.” The DNC denied Christ three times at their convention, hmm, I wonder?


73 posted on 12/14/2012 11:50:57 AM PST by IslamE (epiphany)
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To: DickBrannigan

Well, yeah, but you’re putting the authority to determine who’s a possible shooter into the hands of the government...


74 posted on 12/14/2012 11:51:20 AM PST by ArmstedFragg (hoaxy dopey changey)
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To: soycd

Erase him from memory.


75 posted on 12/14/2012 11:51:29 AM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: soycd

Erase him from memory.


76 posted on 12/14/2012 11:52:49 AM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: Morgana

Fox just reported that the shooter was 24 y/O.


77 posted on 12/14/2012 11:54:31 AM PST by Ditter
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To: DickBrannigan
You nailed it.

What we are dealing with is a social epidemic and involves the process by which affected people are identified and dealt with.

78 posted on 12/14/2012 11:54:48 AM PST by skeeter
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To: ArmstedFragg

Ah, AF, you are most mistaken........


79 posted on 12/14/2012 11:55:05 AM PST by DickBrannigan (When did logic become reversed, and right became wrong, and wrong became right?)
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To: Morgana

From Drudge:

The suspected gunman in today’s elementary school massacre has been identified as a 24-year-old New Jersey resident who lists his hometown as the Connecticut town in which the bloodbath occurred.

Ryan Lanza’s mother Nancy, 52, is a teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary School, where the carnage took place. He opened fire inside his mother’s classroom, where 18 students were shot.


80 posted on 12/14/2012 11:58:24 AM PST by Texas56
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