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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums*** CT School Shooting Breaking News Thread ***
The mix of GD threads of 1 dead, 27 dead, nobody dead are confusing as heck, but understandable because they are posted at different times and referencing different media sources.
So if you have an up to date datum this is a good place to post it.
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)DoBotherMe
(2,340 posts)Klukie
(2,237 posts)Response to cthulu2016 (Original post)
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sufrommich
(22,871 posts)dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)as opposed to national news.
kath
(10,565 posts)WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)per NECN.
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)and all these unconfirmed reports aren't doing anyone any good.
Right now all I can do is hope that they are wrong.
cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)FarCenter
(19,429 posts)CBS reporting shooter was young man in 20's from New Jersey.
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)According to CBS News, the gunman, who is believed to be 18 to 20 years old, got into an argument with people at the front office at about 9:41 a.m. People have to be buzzed in before entering the school and there is a camera to view whoever is entering the building.
http://www.wfsb.com/story/20345707/cbs-27-people-dead-in-newtown-school-shooting
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)Not clear where or who.
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,198 posts)deutsey
(20,166 posts)tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)DoBotherMe
(2,340 posts)DoBotherMe
(2,340 posts)deutsey
(20,166 posts)20 year old male from New Jersey, according to what I just heard on CBS.
SWAT teams at his dad's house? WTF?
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)where ever he was living needs to be checked out.
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)deutsey
(20,166 posts)I hope these numbers are wrong.
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)Eyewitness report: there was an announcement happening over the intercom. Over the intercom, there was then a scream, and then gunfire. The kids were told to close their eyes when they were led out of the school so they would not see what was in the hallway.
MANative
(4,112 posts)I'm 5 miles from that school and less than a mile from the Danbury Hospital. Watching all my local news stations, saying at least 18 children dead, and 9 adults. Shooter is dead. Local news saying that eyewitnesses claim "over 100" shots fired. I can't stop crying and I think I'm going to throw up. I know dozens of people from Newtown.
deutsey
(20,166 posts)I'm feeling the same way as you...
OneGrassRoot
(22,920 posts)I'm crying and nauseated, too, and I'm not anywhere near you.
I am so damn sorry this has happened.
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MANative
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Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)They'd rather have that chirpy twit on Here and Now make us all feel happy and perky.
Her childish voice grates on my nerves.
They did have a BBC news piece on the shooting at the top of the hour, but they'd rather discuss some woman's cost/benefit analysis of having a baby while other people's babies are dead.
Our US media SUCK.
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cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,194 posts)ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)to be three injured.
The new numbers are a shock. Those poor kids and that community. My word.
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barbtries
(28,811 posts)"at least 26 dead" is current to my knowledge.
lapfog_1
(29,223 posts)"if only those 5 year olds had handguns... they could have stopped this"
need I add
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deutsey
(20,166 posts)No other information about this person.
deutsey
(20,166 posts)Told parents he did not do it as police led him away in cuffs.
cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)A LOT of people have something suspicious about them (like carrying a gun) and whenever police start checking out everybody there will be some fishy-seeming people.
deutsey
(20,166 posts)deutsey
(20,166 posts)per CBS
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cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)deutsey
(20,166 posts)ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)FarCenter
(19,429 posts)Since the shooter live on Yognanda Street, this is most likely his mother, the kindergarten teacher.
MANative
(4,112 posts)then went to the school, where he killed people in the office, then went to his mother's Kindergarten classroom and opened fire. It gets worse with every detail.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,194 posts)His mother being one of the dead.
A kindergarten class.
cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)Mom was a Kindergarten teacher.
Shooter killed dad at home, then drove to Mom's school. Killed some people in the school office, then went to Mom's classroom where he shot everyone. 18 students dead. 3 in hospital.
7 adults killed including mom and dad, but unclear whether that includes the shooter, who is also dead.
A uniquely community scarring crime. Many of the parents of the victims will know each other. There will be a street with at least two victims, etc..