Child, gunman dead in Conn. elementary school shooting

Updated at 12:17 p.m. ET

NEWTOWN, Conn. A shooting at a Connecticut elementary school Friday left at least one child and the gunman dead, at least one teacher wounded and sent frightened pupils into the parking lot.

CBS News has confirmed at least one child is died and a law enforcement official told CBS News that "one gunman is dead" in the shooting. It is unclear if there was more than one gunman at the school.

Law enforcement sources told CBS News senior correspondent John Miller that preliminary and unconfirmed information indicates that the shooter was the father of a student.

The shooter was killed and apparently had two guns, a person with knowledge of the shooting told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation was still under way.

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Connecticut elementary school shooting

It wasn't clear how many people were injured at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. CBS Hartford affiliate WFSB-TV reports around 600 students attend the school.

Connecticut State Police spokesman Lt. Paul Vance described the situation to CBS New York station WCBS-AM as a "very serious school shooting."

A dispatcher at the Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps said a teacher had been shot in the foot and taken to Danbury Hospital.

Stephen Delgiadice said his 8-year-old daughter heard two big bangs and teachers told her to get in a corner. His daughter was fine.

"It's alarming, especially in Newtown, Connecticut, which we always thought was the safest place in America," he said.

Lisa Bailey, a Newtown resident with three children in Newtown schools, told CBSNewYork.com, "Newtown is a quiet town. I'd never expect this to happen here. It's so scary. Your kids are not safe anywhere."

The superintendent's office said the district had locked down schools in Newtown, about 60 miles northeast of New York City. Schools in neighboring towns also were locked down as a precaution.

State police said Newtown police called them around 9:40 a.m.

A photo posted by The Newtown Bee newspaper showed a group of young students — some crying, others looking visibly frightened — being escorted by adults through a parking lot in a line, hands on each other's shoulders.

Students were taken to a nearby firehouse to be reunited with their parents, CBSNewYork.com reports.

[JennyChange]

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[charleytakaya]

"I WO'NT DO THE SHOOTER"*

Sadness follows the stream of tears, brutality goes,
Lifeless bodies cry suffering stillness filled in Grey.
Heart wrenched families struggle with questions why,
We look towards our God, our belief in Good and cry.

The release of community spirit our nation does know,
Lends to the grief, reaching outwards to those that go,
Beyond our hearts, our lives, we take it up in this spirit,
To let those children know they are not lost, forgotten.

Life teaching are grand, glorious, filled with beauty,
Death, leaves us with nothing, sudden, sometimes not,
But the answers one reaches for, at these moments ,
Seldom satisfies or releases the pain and suffering.

No child should fall to brutality, no child should die,
No child should have to witness this scene or even cry,
No child should know the lost is gone, the pain is real,
No child should, we know, the families do, we do,
No child should, so we suffer too, we care, we cry.

The deepest of sympathies, of healing flows, matters,
The sighs of millions, the tears of friends, the woes.
All will not help, assist or even really matter at all,
To those who now are not here, gone, their lives end.

"I see you mommie, I see you daddy,I see you clear,
I see my families, I see my friends,
I see you now,
Don't cry, don't suffer,
Don't I see you do and are,
Please remember when you saw me,
We laughed , we cried, we played,
We smiled,we lived in joy, do you"

"Do you, do you remember, when I made you smile,
It made you cry, we laughed and smiled,
See that, hold it, feel it, breathe it,
Be there, be here with me, hold me,
Cherish that memory, that moment, don't cry, don't,
Never forget that memory and I won't die."

-CT




Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting: Newtown, Connecticut

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[conserndinpa]

i agree that mental health should be look at when someone owns a gun yes mental health can affect anyone. but sometimes I think the shooters use mental health as an excuse. and some of them know excatly what they are doing and mental health has nothing to do with it. Its asham how many people have to lose there lives because some jerk wants to shoot people he is mad at. Gun laws need to be stricter not only with people with mental illnesses but all you fools that think its your god given right to
carry a gun. Owning a gun is a big responiblty that a lot of you do not take in to account that you should lock them up from our kids and family members that can hurt other people.

[mountainhawk4]

Oh come on I can remember buying guns out of the catalog,I can remember taking a gun to school to work on during shop period and yes we also had mentally impaired people at that time,but what we didn't have was a society filld with every kind of mayhem known to mankind,the endless killings and murders and you name it flowing into the home on the T.V,all those wonderful little entertaining games (that bring in hugh bucks")games who's only purpose is to see how many you can kill before they kill you.Then of course we have all of those endless wars that make so few so much but what the hell life is cheap,no its our society "we are what we are.!!!!

[Shecky95]

Great i see the news people are now idiots for profiting off of traumitized kids and interviewing them as well .. the media right now are a bunch of crazed PIGS ... those news crew should be ashamed of themselves...MORONS. Give these kids a bit of RESPECT for what they have just gone through...o wait u all just want to make a fast buck...o wait ur still IDIOTS for interviewing those kids....smdh.. those people have NO RESPECT at all.

[judymar14]

This is beyond horrible. How could anyone be crazed enough to kill not only this many adults, but all these children as well?

[CbsCunt5]

You sick *****. Profiting off of the murder of children as usual. Can always count on the news to put a 40 second mandatory advertisement before a video covering an elementary school massacre. You pigs have no limits.

[CbsCunt5]

You sick *****. Profiting off of the murder of children as usual. Can always count on the news to put a 40 second mandatory advertisement before a video covering an elementary school massacre. You pigs have no limits.

[TsMkLg068425]

Best idea would a world wide ban of weapons especially from the military and the law enforcement. If no one has weapons than what? Fist fights? Also, their should make age limit when parents should have kids so they will not turn out some retarded adult like this shooter. Lazy parenting also the cause of this type of violence.

[CbsCunt5]

You are grossly uninformed of human nature. Guns are now part of life as a human being, no matter how hard you try to regulate guns they are not going anywhere.

[b1k2h3]

The Left, the Right, Centrist; what good do any of our constitutional rights do for the victims of this tragedy? The Right gives the argument that criminals won't adhere to stricter rules & regulations, which is correct, but there would not be the ability to walk into a school or theatre with multiple weapons and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, and shoot dozens of people, which if history is any indication, will not be by a criminal. The Left would say stricter controls are needed, which would also be correct; but again the problem is not with those who are not supposed to have the guns, it is with those who are law-abiding citizens, perhaps taking leave of their senses, and exercising their right to possess firepower far in excess of what is needed for protection against actual criminals. How do we approach the issue when the villains may be our friends and neighbors, and oft-times, we are familiar with the victims, as well; who are usually innocent? That needs to examined by those who stand in the middle. Arming schools with those who can defend it is at best a dicey thing, as the very real possibility of shooting an armed child presents itself. That is not the answer, and was not what those who wrote the 2nd Amendment had in mind. I cannot see where the elevated right to bear more and bigger arms would help this, and similar situations from occurring. Perhaps some happy medium regarding increased control would be the answer; and if not increased control, then expanded responsibility in affecting your rights.

[Type_Z]

Mental health care is the answer. We better wake up to it. Usually there are warnings. We need to actually care about each other. We need to care about families who are struggling and not look the other way.

We need to stop telling ourselves, "it's not our problem", "maybe those parents weren't good parents like I think I am". Mental illness, if that is the case here, we don't know yet, but if it is, can happen to anyone. It happens to the rich, the poor, the beautiful, old, young, red, white , blue. Mental illness is a biological disease we don't know much about.

We need to not be afraid, even though mental illness is scary. Doctors don't have cures or all the answers

[Mac_Usah]

NRA: "Well, if the children had firearms, they could have defended themselves." This coming for the gun-rights organization that bans firearms in their meetings. So what's wrong with gun cintrol?

[Type_Z]

Stop it, you are a hater. Offer a solution parrot.