STAMFORD, Conn. -- When the parents of Connecticut school shooter Adam Lanza divorced, the settlement left his mother with a comfortable income and the comfort of knowing that the boy in...
The chilling sound of multiple gunshots shattered the relative quiet of the school day at Sandy Hook Elementary School at around 9:30 Friday morning -- children screaming, then silence, as teachers did their best to protect their students and keep them quiet, hoping desperately the shooter would not find them.
Remarks by President Barack Obama at the Sandy Hook prayer vigil in Newtown, Conn., Sunday night, as provided by the White House:
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- A grieving Connecticut town braced itself Monday to bury the first two of the 20 littlest victims of the school gunman. Authorities could not say when or whether the school, now a crime scene and forever a place of tragedy, would reopen.
Sandy Hook Elementary victim: Madeleine Hsu, 6
Sandy Hook Elementary victim: Catherine Hubbard, 6
Sandy Hook Elementary victim: Chase Kowalski, 7
Sandy Hook Elementary victim: Nancy Lanza, 52, teacher, gunman's mother
Sandy Hook Elementary victim: Jesse Lewis, 6
Sandy Hook Elementary victim: Ana Marquez-Greene, 6
Sandy Hook Elementary victim: James Mattioli, 6
Sandy Hook Elementary victim: Grace Audrey McDonnell, 7
Sandy Hook Elementary victim: Anne Marie Murphy, 52, teacher
Sandy Hook Elementary victim: Emilie Parker, 6
Sandy Hook Elementary victim: Jessica Rekos, 6
Sandy Hook Elementary victim: Lauren Gabrielle Rousseau, 30, teacher
Mary Sherlach, 56, school psychologist
BOSTON -- The Boston Police Commissioner said that even though there was no connection between the shooting and the Boston area, uniformed police patrols will be increasing in and around schools over the next several days.
BOSTON -- Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley says the Connecticut school shootings are "a tragedy of almost Biblical proportion," and is calling for tighter gun control and better care for the mentally ill.
NASHUA, N.H. -- A Nashua man is organizing a vigil at City Hall Plaza to remember the school shooting victims in Newton, Conn.