Police to Release Names of Victims
Connecticut authorities were preparing to release the names of the 20 children and six adults killed when a gunman unleashed the second deadliest school shooting in U.S. history at Sandy Hook...
View ArticleNearby Towns Placed Schools in Lockdown
The shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School forced schools in other surrounding towns to lock down Friday. Schools in Bethel were in lockdown for part of the day, according to officials there. Region...
View ArticleSchool to Resume at Temporary Locations
When students from Sandy Hook Elementary School return to school, they will be at temporary locations, but with their same teacher, NBC Connecticut’s Jo Ling Kent has learned. Twenty children, six...
View ArticleResponding Officer: "I Got Bodies Here"
Recordings of police scanner activity in the minutes after 20-year-old shooter Adam Lanza's rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School show how police handled the gruesome scene, where 20 children and six...
View ArticleShooter’s Mother Was Not on Staff at Sandy Hook: Supt.
It does not appear that Nancy Lanza, mother of the apparent shooter at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, was a staff member at the school, despite earlier reports. Newtown Supt. Janet Robinson told NBC...
View ArticleHow to Help Victims of Newtown School Shooting
People across the world are in disbelief after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown on Friday and many are wondering what they can do to help. The United Way has set up the...
View ArticleAmid Tragedy, Stories of Heroism Emerge
With bursts of gunfire ringing out in the hallway, Kaitlin Roig, a teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary School, huddled in a cramped bathroom with her 15 first-grade students, trying to assure them that...
View ArticleSandy Hook Principal Remembered for Dedication
Sandy Hook Elementary principal Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung is being remembered as an energetic and dedicated educator. Upon hearing gunfire at the school during Friday morning’s shooting, Hochsprung, 47,...
View ArticleInvestigators Find "Very Good Evidence" at Conn. Shooting Crime Scenes
State Police Lt. J. Paul Vance told reporters Saturday that investigators have uncovered "very good evidence" at the two crime scenes "as to how, and more importantly why, this occurred."Photo Credit:...
View ArticleMystery Shooter: Little Known About Adam Lanza
A day after a deadly shooting rampage devastated the small town of Newtown, Conn., leaving 20 children and eight adults dead, a profile emerged of the shooter: A bright but awkward loner with few...
View Article"These Were Little Kids": Newtown School Superintendent
An emotional Newtown School Superintendent Janet Robinson talked with NBC Connecticut about the impact the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary has had on her community.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
View ArticleRousseau: Loved Teaching
Lauren Rousseau had only been a full-time substitute teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary School for about three months when a gunman went through the school, killing 20 elementary school students and six...
View ArticleNames of Newtown School Shooting Victims Released
The names of the 26 victims gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Friday were released Saturday afternoon. Most of the 20 children killed in the second-deadliest school shooting...
View ArticleAnne Marie Murphy: Died Shielding Students
Anne Marie Murphy, 52, was shielding students inside Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown on Friday when she was killed. Her father, High McGowan, of Katonah, New York, told Newsday that first...
View ArticleGovernor: What’s Important Now Is Love, Courage, Compassion
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy spoke to the people of Connecticut on Saturday night about the tragic shooting in Newtown on Saturday. Following are the remarks, as they were prepared. Yesterday an unspeakable...
View ArticleGunman's Aunt "Baffled," Says He Was Raised by Good Parents
The aunt of the gunman who unleashed the Connecticut school shooting said she can't understand why her nephew would kill his mother along with 20 children and seven adults in the small town of Newtown,...
View ArticleVictoria Soto: Selfless
Most who knew Victoria Soto describe her as selfless. She died protecting her students from the gunman who went on a rampage inside Sandy Hook Elementary School on Friday. It's just the bravest thing...
View Article"We Are In a State of Disbelief": Shooter's Father
Peter Lanza, the father of Newtown shooter Adam Lanza, released a statement Saturday night about the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School. "Our hearts go out to the families and friends who lost...
View ArticleNewtown Teacher: I Hid Kids in Coat Closet
Connie Sullivan, a teacher at Newtown Elementary School, barricaded her students in a closet to protect them from the shooter.
View ArticleDad of Victim, 6: She Made World a Better Place
Robbie Parker, whose 6-year-old daughter Emilie was among those killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, remembers his child as a loving, creative person who used her talents to touch the...
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