20 children out of the 26 victims of Connecticut school shooting.

Dressed up in black fatigues and the military vest, a heavily armed man walked into a Connecticut elementary school and opened fire, shattering the quiet of this southern New England town and leaving the united states reeling at how many young lives lost.

Within minutes, 26 people were lifeless at Sandy Hook Elementary School. 20 of which are children. Among the half a dozen adults killed were Dawn Hochsprung, the school's much loved principal, and school psycho therapist Mary Sherlach.

The present shooter, identified by three police as 20-year-old Adam Lanza, also was killed, apparently by his very own hand. Separately, his mother's body was available at a Newtown residence.

"Stuff like this does not happen in Newtown, " a tight-knit community of just approximately 27, 000 just outside Danbury, says Renee Burn, a local teacher at another school in town. In the past decade, only one homicide acquired previously been reported.
With all the death toll at twenty six, the Newtown shooting is the second-deadliest school shooting in U. S. history, at the rear of only the 2007 shooting at Virginia Tech of which left 32 people lifeless.