By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN
The Associated Press
The Associated Press
Updated: 2012-12-14T18:04:04Z
Shannon Hicks
Connecticut State Police lead children from the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., following a reported shooting there Friday.
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- UPDATE: An official with knowledge of a shooting at a Connecticut elementary school says 27 people are dead, including 18 children. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is still under way.
The Hartford Courant is reporting that multiple people, including children, were killed at a Connecticut elementary school Friday, and that many of the shootings took place in a kindergarten classroom.The shooter was killed and apparently had two guns, a person with knowledge of the shooting said. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation was still under way. It isn't clear how many people were injured at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. 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. 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. ––– Asociated Press writer Michael Melia contributed to this report from Hartford.
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