Elementary School Shooting In CT....

[chesapeakejet]

Originally Posted by Al Woodall Rocks!

This has sucked the life out of me today.
My son was born a few towns north of Newtown in New Milford. It is the last place we lived before moving to Fla. Newtown is a beautiful town with hard working people. Such a tragedy, that will forever damage it.

I am so sad right now......

They need each other more than ever.

[BushyTheBeaver]

reports now that the Facebook page posted was not the right Ryan Lanza.

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-w...on-cbs-2012-12

[Warfish]

Originally Posted by BushyTheBeaver

reports now that the Facebook page posted was not the right Ryan Lanza.

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-w...on-cbs-2012-12

Certainly seems that way. Unless some other person is updating the shooters facebook for him, it appears FOX and whomever else ran the Facebook pic is in for a world of lawsuits if they were indeed wrong.

[Bonhomme Richard]

Seems the blood sucking media jumped to horrible conclusions. The shooter is not Ryan Lanza after all.

[Jetworks]

Originally Posted by Warfish

Certainly seems that way. Unless some other person is updating the shooters facebook for him, it appears FOX and whomever else ran the Facebook pic is in for a world of lawsuits if they were indeed wrong.

The FB page had his info as Hoboken, NJ and Newtown, CT. Helluva coincidence if the guy has the same name in the same small town.

Originally Posted by Bonhomme Richard

Seems the blood sucking media jumped to horrible conclusions. The shooter is not Ryan Lanza after all.

EDIT- If that's the case, then :facepalm:

[Jets Things]

Originally Posted by BushyTheBeaver

reports now that the Facebook page posted was not the right Ryan Lanza.

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-w...on-cbs-2012-12

Wow

[greenwichjetfan]

I can't believe the president of the strongest, greatest nation in the world, broke down on national television.

That's how ****ed up this **** is. Even the most trained, hardened man in the world- is still just a man at the mercy of loved ones and human emotion.

Hearts to those who have to deal with this.

Ugh.

[Bonhomme Richard]

I'd hate to be Ryan Lanza right now.

I'd love to be the guy that Ryan Lanza hires has his attorney.

Thanks to twitter, Facebook, et al, the Internet is like one giant game of telephone.

[PlumberKhan]

[GreenReaper]

This guy could end up as a victim of misguided vengeance.

[Big L]

Jeebuz... 18 kids dead at the school, 2 transported to hospital and then pronounced dead. 20 dead children. What a waste.

And 6 teachers, principals, etc. dead too. Trying to teach and help kids, and wind up dead.



Just insanely awful.

[IRONFAN 40]

Why have a press conference when you have no information?? Seems like the media just made their own story and ran with it. Who knows if this guy name is Ryan Lanza?

[GreenReaper]

Originally Posted by Big L

Jeebuz... 18 kids dead at the school, 2 transported to hospital and then pronounced dead. 20 dead children. What a waste.

And 6 teachers, principals, etc. dead too. Trying to teach and help kids, and wind up dead.



Just insanely awful.

Investigators said that there may be other individual victims in the community. They are searching for persons that have been reported as missing.

[Borgoguy]

In case folks missed President Obama's statement, here it is:

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/video/80...hool-shooting/

[Al Woodall Rocks!]

Originally Posted by IRONFAN 40

Why have a press conference when you have no information?? Seems like the media just made their own story and ran with it. Who knows if this guy name is Ryan Lanza?

The disgust I have with the media in this country is beyond measure.
There is ZERO culpability.
We bust on the POS that cover the NYJ. Their bogus reporting is nothing when compared to something of this magnitude.
We live in a country informed with NY Post 'ethics'. Pathetic....

[Bonhomme Richard]

Originally Posted by Borgoguy

In case folks missed President Obama's statement, here it is:

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/video/80...hool-shooting/

Wow. That's difficult to watch.

[SAR I]

NBC reporting that Ryan Lanza has an older brother, might be him and not Ryan.

SAR I

[GreenReaper]

Careful accurate reporting has no chance of happening...as the media stampedes in a frenzy to be first with the news.

[Fishooked]

Originally Posted by SAR I

NBC reporting that Ryan Lanza has an older brother, might be him and not Ryan.

SAR I

The latest is his brother Adam was the shooter, and Ryan Lanza is the one in custody.

[nyahay bus]

NY Times reports the shooter is Adam Lanza and a brother Ryan Lanza is being questioned.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/15/ny...school.html?hp



December 14, 2012
27 Killed in Connecticut Shooting, Including 20 Children
By JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM
A gunman killed 26 people, 20 of them children between the ages of 5 and 10, in a shooting on Friday morning at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., about 65 miles northeast of New York City, the authorities said.

The gunman, who was believed to be in his 20s, walked into a classroom at Sandy Hook Elementary School where his mother was a teacher. He shot and killed her and then shot 20 students, most in the same classroom. He also shot five other adults, and then killed himself inside the school.

Another body related to the shooting was at another scene, the authorities said, declining to provide more specifics.

A law enforcement official identified the shooter as Adam Lanza and that a brother, Ryan Lanza, had been questioned.

The shooting ranks among the worst in recent United States history.

“The marjority of those who died today were children, beautiful little kids between the ages of 5 and 10 years old,” a visibly distraught President Obama said during a nationally televised address.

After pausing to compose himself for perhaps five long seconds, Mr. Obama said, “They had their entire lives ahead of them: birthdays, graduations, weddings, kids of their own.'’

Then the president wiped the corner of his eye.

Some witnesses described a harrowing scene inside the school with the sounds of gunfire followed by sounds of screams.

One 9-year-old student said he was in the gym when the shooting erupted.

“We were in the gym, and I heard really loud bangs,'’ said the boy, as he stood shivering and weeping outside the school with his father’s arms draped around him. “We thought that someone was knocking something over. And we heard yelling, and we heard gunshots. We heard lots of gunshots. We heard someone say, ‘Put your hands up.’ I heard, ‘Don’t shoot.’ We had to go into the closet in the gym. Then someone came and told us to run down the hallway. There were police at every door. There were lots of people crying and screaming.'’

Another student at the school told an NBC affiliate in Connecticut: “I was in the gym and I heard like seven loud booms, and the gym teachers told us to go in the corner and we huddled. We all heard these booming noises, and we started crying. So the gym teachers told us to go into the office where no one could find us. Then a police officer told us to run outside.”

State police said the Newtown police called them shortly after 9:30 a.m., according to Lt. J. Paul Vance of the Connecticut State Police. “On- and off-duty troopers responded to the school, and with Newtown police immediately upon arrival entered the school and began an active shooter search,” Lieutenant Vance said.

Eighteen of the students were pronounced dead at the school and two others were taken to hospitals where they were declared dead. All the adults were pronounced dead at the school.

Meredith Artley, the managing editor of CNN.com, said that someone who works at the school told her the shooting happened in the hallway. “She described it as a ‘Pop, pop, pop,'” Ms. Artley said. “She said three people went out into the hall and only one person came back, the vice principal, she said, who was shot in the leg or the foot, who came crawling back. She cowered under the table and called 911. She never saw the shooting. There must have been a hundred rounds.”

Mr. Obama was briefed on the shooting at 10:30 a.m., the White House said.

“We’ve endured too many of these tragedies in these past few years and each time I learn the news I react not as a president but as anyone else would as a parent and that was especially true today,'’ Mr. Obama said on Friday afternoon. “I know there’s not a parent in America who doesn’t feel the same overwhelming grief that I do.”

One nearby hospital, Danbury Hospital, said it was treating three patients from the shooting scene. At the hospital, stunned-looking personnel in white coats looked shaken as they gathered in small groups talking about the shooting. In a corner near the gift shop, one woman comforted a weeping colleague.

In the coffee shop, a few customers finished their sandwiches at the lunch counter and the cashier wiped tears from her eyes as she rang up customers.

A nurse at the hospital, Maureen Kerins, lives close to the school and after learning of the shooting from the television hurried to the school to see if she could help. “I stood outside waiting to go in, but a police officer came out and said they didn't need any nurses so I knew it wasn’t good,'’ Ms. Kerins said.

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy arrived at the scene of the shooting on Friday afternoon.

The school, located among wooded hills and suburban tracts in Fairfield County, 12 miles east of Danbury, serves kindergarten through fourth grade. The school has about 700 students.

“It’s just a little country school,'’ said Robert Place, 65, as he stood near the scene. “The look is very ‘50s or ‘60s. One floor. It’s always had a good reputation. People come to Newtown for the schools.'’

The school’s principal, Dawn Hochsprung, was reportedly one of those shot. But at the home of her daughter Cristina Hassinger, in Oakville, Conn., the family was still awaiting any news of her fate.

“We’re looking for any hope,” said Ryan Hassinger, the son-in-law of the principal. “If she’s in the hospital, any chance is better.”

He said that his wife, Cristina, 28, and “her sister are there now,” with Connecticut state troopers, and that he and other relatives were awaiting word on any news.

“I looked on Twitter and it says that she is passed,” said Mr. Hassinger. But, he added, the family was “just waiting.”

A photograph published by a local newspaper, The Newtown Bee, showed a line of children being escorted out of the school with some of the children crying.

In front of a senior center next door to the school, a 20-year-old woman was with her 4-year-old sister, who was in the school at the time of the shooting. The older woman came to pick up her younger sister along with their mother. The girl had her arms and legs wrapped around her older sister.

When a reporter asked the woman what the little girl knew of what had happened, the woman said, “Absolutely nothing, and we don’t plan to tell her anything.”

Reporting was contributed by Peter Applebome, Robert Davey, Elizabeth Maker and Kristin Hussey Zisson from Connecticut, and Al Baker, Andy Newman, Jennifer Preston and Wendy Ruderman from New York.



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