Newtown Residents Fill Churches, Search For Answers In Friday's Shooting Rampage
At Saint Rose of Lima Catholic Church, mourners gathered Saturday night to find comfort, while keeping the spirit of Christmas alive.
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At Saint Rose of Lima Catholic Church, mourners gathered Saturday night to find comfort, while keeping the spirit of Christmas alive.
Robbie Parker's daughter Emilie was among the 20 children who died in the one of the worst attacks on schoolchildren in U.S. history. He was one of the first parents to speak publicly about their loss.
Investigators were trying to learn more about Adam Lanza and questioned his older brother, who was not believed to have been involved in the rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary. Police shed no light on the motive for the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history.
Adam Lanza, 20, took the lives of 20 children and eight adults -- including his mother and himself – leaving wounds for the town that may never heal.
The principal gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., was being remembered Saturday for the safety policies she helped develop before the horrific shooting rampage.
Along with the arduous task of going over crime scenes, police Saturday morning were trying to gain insight into the killer.
Relatives of Newtown, Conn., elementary school massacre gunman Adam Lanza said on Saturday described the gunman as a fan of computer and dice games who would have received help for mental health issues if he had needed it.
How can the families in Newtown Conn., who have suffered such loss begin to cope with the elementary school massacre?
Mayor Michael Bloomberg was clearly livid following the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., saying it is almost impossible that a mass shooting could happen in a kindergarten class.
The parents whose children were killed in the massacre knew, of course, that their children had lost their lives when they could not take the children home from school on Friday afternoon.
Newtown, Conn., is a quaint and quiet New England community, and on Saturday morning, the town was trying to understand how the horrific massacre that killed 20 children and eight adults at an elementary school could have happened.
Newtown, Conn., resident Gene Rosen took in six children whom he found on his front lawn after the shooting Friday.
Police believe Peter Lanza's home may yield clues into the unthinkable and appalling crime perpetuated by his 20-year-old son -- the massacre of 27 people inside Sandy Hook Elementary School and the killing of his own mother inside her nearby home.
It is where the unthinkable chain of events began, Yogananda Street, the neighborhood where 20-year-old Sandy Hook Elementary School gunman Adam Lanza lived with his mother, Nancy.
In the wake of the tragic school shooting in Newtown, Conn., CBS 2 has learned the school district had just installed a new safety policy designed to prevent situations such as what happened on Friday.
