UPDATE : Tragedy In Newtown, Conn.

“Evil visited this community today and it’s too early to speak of recovery. Each parent, each sibling, each member of the family has to understand Connecticut — we’re all in this together.”
Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy


Update: NEWTOWN, Conn. — President Obama will arrive here Sunday to meet family members of those killed in Friday’s shooting rampage, carrying out the awful rituals of mass death and national grief for his fourth time in just four years as president. Read More: President Visits Newtown

Update: Government officials told the Washington Guardian on Friday night that two Justice Department programs that had provided more than $200 million to schools for training, security equipment and police resources over the last decade weren't renewed in 2011 and 2012, and that a separate program that provided $800 million to put police officers inside the schools was ended a few years earlier. Read More: Obama Admin Allowed Federal $$ For School Security To Lapse

Vicki Soto

Update: 'She put herself between the gunman and her students,' her cousin Jim Wiltsie told the Daily News. 

Read more: Teacher Died saving Her Students




Update:  NEWTOWN, Conn. – Connecticut State Police say a gunman who massacred 26 children and adults at an elementary school before committing suicide forced his way into the building. 
Read more from FOX News: Police: New Evidence In Shooting

Following the shooting, families of victims grieve outside Sandy Hook 
Elementary School.
                                                                            (Adrees Latif/Reuters)

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Gunman Takes The Lives of 20 Children, 6 Adults










                                                                                                    

Conn. State Police officers evacuated frightened students to a
 nearby firehouse
 (Shannon Hicks/AP)

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What We Know       

President Obama says he grieves about the massacre as a
father first.
 (Larry Downing/Reuters)

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An Emotional President Addresses The Nation













                                                                               

The Connecticut state police said the Newtown police called them shortly
after 9:30 a.m

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                             Gunman Recalled as Intelligent But 
     Shy

A candlelight vigil held in Takoma Park, Md. to honor victims of the school massacre. (Sarah L. Voisin/Washington Post)

At the Washington Monument, flags fly at half-staff to honor victims.
(Jonathan Newton/Washington Post)

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