Masacre en la escuela primaria de Connecticut : 26 muertos, entre ellos 20 niños.
Un estudiante de la escuela primaria, recuerda los momentos aterradores , sonidos de disparos en la escuela primaria de Connecticut, diciendo: "Los profesores nos dijeron de ir en la esquina, así que todos amontonados".
Elementary school
massacre: 26 dead, including 18 kids, in Connecticut
An elementary school student recalls the terrifying moments
following sounds of shots fired at her Connecticut elementary school, saying "teachers
told us to go in the corner so we all huddled."
By Pete Williams, Miguel Llanos and Tracy Connor, NBC News
The
gunman, described as a 20-year-old man from Connecticut, was later found dead,
a federal law enforcement official told NBC News. A second person was in
custody for a possible connection to the shooting, NBC’s Pete Williams
reported.
Students
– mostly under age 10 -- described the terror that gripped Sandy Hook
Elementary School in Newtown when the rampage began around 9:30 a.m., sparking
a massive police response that included SWAT officers going room to room to
search for victims.
The
Hartford Courant, citing unnamed sources, said many of the victims were in a
kindergarten classroom.
"I
was in the gym and I heard a loud, like seven loud booms, and the gym teachers
told us to go in the corner, so we all huddled," one student told NBC
Connecticut. "And I kept hearing these booming noises. And we all …
started crying.
"All
the gym teachers told us to go into the office where no one could find
us," she added. "So then a police officer came in and told us to run
outside. So we did and we came in the firehouse and waited for our
parents."
Dozens
of emergency vehicles from across Fairfield County raced to the 600-student
school, along with panicked parents hoping to be reunited with their children.
“It
was horrendous,'' Brenda Lebinski, mother of a third-grader, said at the scene.
"Everyone was in hysterics -- parents, students. There were kids coming
out of the school bloodied. I don't know if they were shot, but they were
bloodied,'' she said, according to Reuters.
Children
are led from Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., on Friday after a
reported shooting there.
One
parent picking up his young son said the shooting was “the most terrifying
moment a parent can imagine.” He described the anguish of waiting to find
out if his son was a victim and then running to his child.
“It
was the greatest relief in my existence,” the father said. “I’m just happy that
my kid’s OK.”
Bracing
for a large influx of wounded, Danbury Hospital went on lockdown and cleared
four trauma rooms. It received only three patients, including a teacher shot in
the foot, the Associated Press reported.
The
motive for the shooting was unknown, and the gunman’s name was not released.
Two
9mm handguns were recovered from the scene, an official told WNBC's Jonathan Dienst. The
Associated Press said one of the guns was a.223-caliber rifle.
"I
think it's important on a day like today to view this as I know the president,
as a father does, and I as a father and others who are parents certainly do,
which is to feel enormous sympathy for families that are affected,” White House
press secretary Jay Carney said.
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The
death toll is the highest from a school shooting in U.S. history since a gunman
killed 32 people at Virginia Tech in 2007. At Columbine High School in
Littleton, Colorado, two teens killed 13 people and wounded 24 in 1999.
Parent
Stephen Delgiadice, whose 8-year-old daughter was not hurt, said he never could
have imagined such carnage in the small bedroom community – where the police
force has only three detectives.
"It's
alarming, especially in Newtown, Connecticut, which we always thought was the
safest place in America," he told The Associated Press.
