Local news organizations reported that she was married, with two daughters and three stepdaughters. Press reports said Hochsprung had been the school’s principal since 2010, and had been a schools administrator for 12 years before that. I just can’t make any more comments than that right now.”Īmong the dead was the school’s principal, Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung, according to law enforcement sources. “She was my daughter, and a beautiful girl and I loved her. “I just can’t cope with it right now,” Hanson said through tears. “They had their entire lives ahead of them - birthdays, graduations, weddings, kids of their own.”ĭorothy Hanson, who is the suspect’s grandmother and Nancy Lanza’s mother, said in a brief phone interview Friday that she could not fathom the violence that ended their lives. The majority of those who died today were children, beautiful little kids between five and 10 years old,” Obama paused, seemingly unable to continue for a few moments. “I know there’s not a parent in America who doesn’t feel the same overwhelming grief that I do. He promised “meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this,” but did not say specifically what he might do. “Our hearts are broken today,” Obama said. President Obama, in one of his most emotional speeches as president, wiped away tears as he spoke about the shooting from the White House’s briefing room.
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It happened in a country that had grown darkly accustomed to public shootings: just five months before, another gunman had killed 12 in a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., in July.īut the sheer scale of Friday’s killing - and the nature of its victims, small children shot in the sanctuary of a school - deepened its horror, and unleashed a shaking kind of grief. history, after the rampage that killed 32 students at the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Va. One other person was injured in the shooting, but survived.įriday’s shooting became the second-deadliest in U.S. When they found the gunman, however, he was dead by his own hand. Police were called to the school after 9:35 a.m., and officers searched the classrooms for a shooter.
They were shot in two different rooms of the school, police said.
223 caliber “Bushmaster” rifle and two pistols, a Sig Sauer and a Glock.Īt the school, authorities said, Adam Lanza shot and killed six adults - including the school’s principal - and 20 children. In the car, authorities said, were three guns: a. Then he drove in her car to Sandy Hook Elementary, the school at which Nancy Lanza taught kindergarten. Police said that Lanza first apparently killed his mother, Nancy Lanza, at the home they shared in Newtown. The dead included the suspected gunman, whom law enforcement sources identified as Adam Lanza, 20. NEWTOWN, Conn.-A shooting rampage in this small Connecticut town on Friday morning left 28 people dead, including 20 children killed inside their elementary school, authorities said.
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