A gunman killed at least 27 people at an elementary school Friday in Newton, Connecticut.
Reportedly the shooter, a 20-year-old male identified as Adam Lanza, was found dead inside Sandy Hook Elementary School. At least three weapons were
recovered at the scene, including a .223-caliber assault rifle and two
semi-automatic handguns.
Groups
of students were escorted from the
school by teachers. Some witnesses reported of up to 100 shots. There
were reports that the assailant, dressed in military style
assault gear, shot most of the victims in a kindergarten classroom.
Nancy Lanza, the shooter's 52-year-old mother and kindergarten teacher at the school, was among those killed. Lanza's 24-year-old brother, Ryan, of Hoboken, N.J., was being questioned by authorities.
The incident - which would be one of the
worst school shootings in U.S. history - is the latest in a series of
mass shootings in the U.S. this year, including Tuesday's assault by a
lone gunman at a Portland, OR., shopping mall that left two dead and one
wounded.
