UPDATE: 27 dead, including 14 children in Connecticut elementary school shooting
Posted Dec 14, 2012 01:27:38 PM.
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NEWTOWN, CT – Multiple media sources are reporting 27 people, including 18 children have been killed in the elementary school shooting in western Connecticut.
This makes it the worst school shooting in U.S. history.
Officials have confirmed that the shooter is among the dead at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, about 100 km west of New York City.
A law enforcement official says the attacker is a 20-year-old man with ties to the Connecticut school.
The official said that a gun used in the attacks is a .223-calibre rifle. The official also said that New Jersey state police are searching a location in that state in connection with the shooting.
MORE TO COME.
