A mass shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut has left at 26 people dead, 20 of them children, according to Connecticut state police.
A heavily armed man invaded the elementary school Friday morning, killing his mother and 26 others, mostly children, according to ABC News. The gunman, who has now been identified as Adam Lanza, 24, of New Jersey, was found dead inside of the school, ABC reports. The shooting occurred inside two rooms within a section of the school, one believed to be a kindergarten classroom.
A second scene has developed in Newtown, CT where a dead body was found and believed to be of some relation to this situation. There is no more detail available on that situation at this time.
“The shooting began about 9:35 a.m., a parent told CNN. “There was a “pop pop pop” in the hall outside the room. Three people went out of the room into the hall where the sounds had come from.” “Only one person came back,” she told CNN.
She said she never saw the shooter but she later was escorted outside the room past two bodies lying in blood, CNN reports.
Barack Obama has just recently been notified of the situation and a White House spokesperson said the president had “enormous sympathy for families that are affected”
House Speaker John Boehner said via Twitter that flags at the U.S. Capitol will be lowered in tribute to families and victims.
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