BREAKING: LIVE Coverage of the Connecticut school shooting

9 y/o girl says that "police with big guns" led her classmates out of the building. Asked them to cover their eyes.

by Libor Jany via twitter 12/14/2012 5:51:45 PM
Fox News now reporting at least 28 dead in the Sandy Hook school shootings.

by Chris Hopkins 12/14/2012 5:52:49 PM
Amy Wood

BREAKING -- Hartford Courant: One entire classroom is unaccounted for outside the school, sources say

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AP: 27 killed, including 18 children.

by Chris Hopkins 12/14/2012 5:55:15 PM
Mergin Bajraliu, a student at Newtown High School, 17, has a sister, 9, who is in fourth grade at the school.

They live nearby and he heard the shots and went to the school before most of the responders arrived to get his sister, and saw a police officer carrying out a little girl whose body was limp.

“The cop was just carrying her and she was leaning back. It was very traumatizing,” he said.

by Chris Hopkins 12/14/2012 5:56:08 PM
State police news conference starting soon.

by Chris Hopkins 12/14/2012 5:56:39 PM
RT @ljanyNT: A former TA says that school doors have magnetic locks. The office has to buzz you in during school hours.

by MattBSilv via twitter 12/14/2012 5:57:50 PM
Regarding buzzing into school buildings: I've never been asked first who I am before being buzzed in. You push a button, door gets unlocked

by susan misur via twitter 12/14/2012 6:01:04 PM
Venesa Bajraliu age 9 said she heard shots and her art teacher called her husband to call police #newtownshooting

by Michelle T. Sullo via twitter 12/14/2012 6:01:10 PM
Media gathering Treadwell Park for press conference #newtownshooting

by Michelle T. Sullo via twitter 12/14/2012 6:03:56 PM
Sandy Hook held kindergarten through 4th grade students. Kids barely 10 years old. SMH...

by Heather Blackwood via twitter 12/14/2012 6:05:03 PM
Shooter is being described as a 20-year-old dressed in black, possibly the father of a student, although his age seems like it would conflict with that. Was wearing a mask and had two handguns, NBC has reported.

by Chris Hopkins 12/14/2012 6:06:37 PM
NBC: Shooter had connections to both Connecticut, where he lived, and New Jersey.

by Chris Hopkins 12/14/2012 6:09:03 PM
Most of the victims at Sandy Hook Elementary are children. This is now officially the worst school shooting in American history.

by surprisyfrown via twitter 12/14/2012 6:09:22 PM
The girl's 17 y/o brother says that he saw a girl being carried out of the school by police. Her face was pale, her body still.

by Libor Jany via twitter 12/14/2012 6:10:01 PM
Re: "Worst school shooting in American history," that's accurate if colleges aren't included. 32 died in the Virginia Tech shootings in 2007.

by Chris Hopkins 12/14/2012 6:10:56 PM
National media are reporting at least 26 people were killed in this morning's shooting, teachers and students. As yet unconfirmed.

by Libor Jany via twitter 12/14/2012 6:11:50 PM
Photo by the New Haven Register.

by Chris Hopkins 12/14/2012 6:12:07 PM
.@nytimes reporting 18 dead.

by Libor Jany via twitter 12/14/2012 6:12:55 PM
NBC: Shooter used two 9mm handguns, a Glock and a Sig Sauer.

by Chris Hopkins 12/14/2012 6:14:19 PM
An unidentified woman asks a police officer for information about a teacher after a shooting spree threw Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown into turmoil Friday morning. (Melanie Stengel/New Haven Register)

by Chris Hopkins 12/14/2012 6:15:41 PM
RT @StevenErtelt: WaPo: Parent who was inside #Newtown school during shooting says she heard "at least 100 rounds" being fired t ...

by RealityTvEveBOP via twitter 12/14/2012 6:16:58 PM
RT @JohnCharltonFox: Kids reunited w/ parents after shooting @ Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown. Reports multiple dead including kids. h ...

by WSVN-TV via twitter 12/14/2012 6:17:41 PM
This could be the deadliest elementary school shooting in US history. 32 people were killed at VaTech in 2007.

by Libor Jany via twitter 12/14/2012 6:17:57 PM
RT @jdeloma: Quinnipiac counselor offers advice about what parents should say to their children about Newtown school shooting - t ...

by Michelle T. Sullo via twitter 12/14/2012 6:18:22 PM
RT @ChrisWebby: one of my aunts actually works at Sandy Hook elementary school.. she and her class are fine. many others aren't though, pray for them.

by kirscheys_bar via twitter 12/14/2012 6:18:23 PM
RT @Lydkid: My neice, 7 years old, was at Head O Meadow School & was crouched down in a corner for 4 hours on lockdown.

by mcbc via twitter 12/14/2012 6:19:47 PM
NBC: There's a second person in custody, but it's not known if they were involved in the shooting.

by Chris Hopkins 12/14/2012 6:20:13 PM
Connecticut medical examiners are asking M.E.s from other states to assist with the dead from the shootings at Sandy Hook School in Newtown.

by The News-Times via twitter 12/14/2012 6:21:21 PM
RT @JulianCummings: Scene of tragic School shooting at Sandy Hook elementary near Newtown, CT instagr.am/p/TOgZQUJKnR/

by Urania Yoges via twitter 12/14/2012 6:22:43 PM
Washington Post graphic: Deadliest U.S. school shootings www.washingtonpost.com. If the current death toll holds, this would be the second-deadliest attack in U.S. history.

by Chris Hopkins 12/14/2012 6:25:44 PM
I'm here in newtown waiting for the press conference to begin. Right now tonnnns of media trucks and cameras as helicopters circle overhead

by susan misur via twitter 12/14/2012 6:26:58 PM
RT @acarvin: CBS affiliate says they've confirmed the principle of Sandy Hook elem has been killed. Just named her publicly for the first time.

by swtypy via twitter 12/14/2012 6:27:28 PM
Saw cops standing at the edge of streets, fire fighters directing traffic at an intersection not even near press conference

by susan misur via twitter 12/14/2012 6:28:39 PM
Principal Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung had five children, according to a 2010 Newtown Bee story.

by Chris Hopkins 12/14/2012 6:28:43 PM
RT @connpost: A home in Newtown is being searched in connection with Sandy Hook School shooting. The principal ... http://m.tmi.me/CCSkN

by ReallyOutHere via twitter 12/14/2012 6:31:59 PM
This will forever change the town of Newtown. The long term effects of something like this is simply devastating. This doesn't end today.

by Lydkid via twitter 12/14/2012 6:34:13 PM
NBC local affiliate: Second person in custody entered the school at the same time as the gunman.

by Chris Hopkins 12/14/2012 6:36:30 PM
At Treadwell park. This is the worst thing I've ever had anything to do with. God bless the victims and their families. #newtownshooting

by Michael Bellmore via twitter 12/14/2012 6:37:10 PM
by Chris Hopkins 12/14/2012 6:37:55 PM
UPDATE: Witness reports indicate that trouble at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn. began in office. - @NECN

by NewsBreaker via twitter 12/14/2012 6:39:01 PM
Photo gallery: 27 dead in Connecticut school shooting: photos.newhavenregister.com

by Chris Hopkins 12/14/2012 6:40:07 PM
Press conference starting #newtownshooting

by Michelle T. Sullo via twitter 12/14/2012 6:40:58 PM
Governor "horrified," meeting with families, spokesman said. State police spokesman up bext

by susan misur via twitter 12/14/2012 6:41:18 PM
State police conference is under way.

by Chris Hopkins 12/14/2012 6:41:23 PM

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