aye just seen that

really bad

Oh god, I was just reading that about 10 minutes ago, and the site I read said (at that time) only one plus the suspect reported to be dead.  

Just heard this on the radio

whats elementery school?

how old would kids be at that?

thats what I read.,

The video in the BBC site shows kids or primary school (i think)

ok ta jen

connecticut news says 18kids dead

FFS

from Kindergarden to 10years old

The children at the school are aged 5 to 10.

The number of fatalities is still unclear, some reports say 12, some say 27.

Children aged 5-10 attend the school. This is horrendous.

5:56pm

RT @AP: BREAKING: Official with knowledge of Conn. school shooting: 27 dead, including 18 children

 

• 5:50pm

  RT @hartfordcourant: One entire classrom is unaccounted for outside the school, sources said. http://cour.at/SZ8kNZ #newtown

Terrible thing,but the pro gun lobby over there will state if the teachers were armed etc this wouldn't have happened.They always trot out this line.

I've never been a big fan of Piers Morgan, but some of the pro-gun abuse he has had to put up with on Twitter......

And now this happens

So awful to read that  Poor babies and their poor parent's standing waiting to see if their child/ren are alive or dead.

Absolutely terrible......so upsetting for everyone involved.

So so sad.  News is now saying the gun man was a 20 yr old male who had links to the school?

How many more times will this happen before America addresses their gun policy.

2 shooters maybe....one might have been a father of a pupil from the school.

Reports saying most of the victims were from the kindergarten class.  5 years old.  I'm so upset even thinking about it, specially having a wee one round the same age knowing how scared he'd be if it was his class.  

I can't understand how anyone could do that to wee children.

I was just thinking about him when I heard the news Joe.   I don't know how they can support it.   The 'right to bear arms; and shoot the shit out of innocent kids. 

Edit to say, of course our laws didn't stop Thomas Hamilton... but I still don't support the pro gun lot.

TWENTY SEVEN shot dead including 18 children at Connecticut elementary as  'student's father' and a second shooter massacre entire class in worst school  shooting in American history

• The shooter - believed to be 20-years-old  from New Jersey - is confirmed dead
• Second gunman now in custody
• One entire classroom is unaccounted for,  sources said
• One teacher said masked gunman started  firing out shots from kindergarten classroom shortly after 9.30am
• One student said there were bullets whizzing  by him in the hallway
• At least 100 rounds are believed to have  been fired
• Female principal is believed to have been  targeted
• At least three seriously injured in  hospital

At least 27 people are dead - including 18  children - after a gunman believed to be a student's father opened fire today at  an elementary school in Connecticut.

Police were dispatched to Sandy Hook  Elementary School in Newtown after they received reports of shots being fired by  a gunman in one of the kindergarten classrooms of the school at  9.35am.

There are preliminary reports a student's  20-year-old father was the shooter and that he went from classroom to classroom  firing at students and teachers with a.223-caliber rifle.

An entire classroom of students is  unaccounted for and frantic parents are desperately seeking information on the  safety of their children.

The gunman was killed at the scene though it  is unclear if he shot himself or was brought down by an officer. A second man  who was seen running from the scene right after the shooting was taken into  custody a few hours later.

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Traumatized students were seen being led out of the  school crying and holding hands

A woman waits to hear about her sister, a teacher,  following the tragic shooting this morning which has shocked the quiet suburban  community

Chaotic scenes at the school as police work to secure  the area and bodies are carried out of the school

 

Young children wait outside Sandy Hook Elementary School  after a shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, this morning

 

A shooter opened fire at the elementary school shooting  at least 20 people - more than a dozen children are believed to be dead

One mother told CBS that her child said there were  bullets 'whizzing by' him in the hallway and that a teacher pulled him into a  classroom.

The  shooting is the latest in a series of high-profile gun crimes in American  schools and colleges,  that is especially shocking given the age of the  students involved

Speaking with MSNBC, one mother said she had  heard the principal had been shot dead.

'The principal was killed and some other  people were shot,' the unidentified woman said outside the  school.

Her daughter added: 'Miss Martin closed the  door and we went into the corner', before the gunman let out 'lots of  shots'.

A black Honda believed to belong to the shooter has been  cordoned off

There are preliminary reports a students father, who is  believed to be 20-years-old and from New Jersey, was the shooter. He was killed  at the scene though it is unclear if he shot himself or was brought down by an  officer

Parents pick-up children outside Sandy Hook Elementary  School after 18 students and two adults were shot dead this morning

Hundreds of officers, sniffer dogs, and firefighters  patrol the streets outside Sandy Hook Elementary School to secure the area

Parent of one of the gunmen found dead at home!!

The thing is that mass shootings (or at any rate, attempted mass shootings) happen all the time in the States, but they don't get reported much here unless the death toll's really high and/or children are involved.

There was actually a mall shooting in Portland, Oregon on Tuesday (the gunman killed two people before shooting himself), but I don't think it got much coverage here: I only heard about it because I was watching the ABC news headlines on BBC News 24...

The shooter has been identified as 24-year-old Ryan Lanza, lived in Hoboken, N.J., and had ties to Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., according to officials. The gunman was found dead inside the building, but it remains unclear who killed him.  

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012...chool/#ixzz2F3byy3ZT

The school has a psychologist! Also dead

Gunmans parents found shot dead...some reports stating he's 24 years old.

Two gunmen.

"A police official says a 20-year-old man is in custody and CBS news is reporting that a body has been found at an address linked to the gunman. It is understood the dead person may be his father, and that his mother, who was a teacher, worked at the school and was also killed."

This is the gun used.  Why the hell is something like that allowed to be owned?

MrJen is saying that was found in his car and that he was found with 2 handguns one being a glock

cos its the good ol' US of A

and its legal

If I had access to guns i would never shoot anyone.

Why - cos i have no reason

People who do this often have an underlying reason

It appears an innocent man have been misidentified.

Brother now found dead.

What they're saying now is that 20 children are dead and 6 teachers and another adult at a secondary site and the gunman himself and that the gunman's brother is in custody.

The gunman first shot his father at his home in New Jersey then drove to the school in Conecticut where his mother is a teacher and shot and killed her.

I think after shooting all these children he then shot himself, but I'm not 100% sure about that.

Obama has made reference to some sort of gun control HAVING to be devised and implimented sooner rather than later.

Hmmm...seems it's now the younger brother who was thr gunman and Ryan is the brother who lives in NJ and is being questioned by police and this 'secondary site' is thought to be the parent's house where the father was shot and killed.

My heart really does go out to those parents and siblings of those poor little kids the heart ache for all of them must be unbearable right now.

I actually nearly cried while looking at those pictures in Erin's post up there.

I am increasingly losing faith in human kind tbh....... this sad situation aside i think i should stop reading the news.

Jen I don't usually cry at news stories but today I just couldn't stop myself.  Glad I was home alone when it happened coz it was quite unexpected but just thinking about how scared those kids must have been was too sad to think about.

Would seem that the confusion over who the gunman was was because the younger brother was carrying the older brother's ID.

I know exactly what you mean, i think the only reason i managed to stop myself actually crying (for the same reason you said) was one of mine in the room and i really didn't want to explain why i was crying.

I was talking to a friend just now and had to come vent. Sorry.

She said and I quote "OMG that's awful...but when you think of the size of America and the size of Scotland..Dunblane was much worse". Is it comparable? By the time I'd finished "explaining" it to her she was in tears.

There has to be some revision of the gun laws in America. You have to practise and pass a test to drive a car but you fill out a form and get a gun. More chance of being killed on the road than by a bullet.