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Two 6-Year-Olds to Be Buried in Newtown Today

Police to guard schools across state

(Newser) - Newtown is bracing for the heartbreaking task of burying the victims of Friday's school massacre. The first two funerals for the 20 young children will be held today, one for 6-year-old Jack Pinto, who might be buried in New York Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz's jersey, and the...

Bushmaster Gun Used in Newtown Has Lethal History

Bushmaster also used in DC sniper shootings

(Newser) - The 26 victims in the Connecticut school shooting were all shot with a semiautomatic rifle , and USA Today reports that the .223-caliber Bushmaster has a dark history: It was also used in the 2002 DC sniper killings. After those murders, a $2.5 million judgment was leveled against the gun...

Anonymous Hits Westboro for Threat to Protest Newtown

Hacktivists vow to destroy fringe church

(Newser) - Hackers from Anonymous pounced on the Westboro Baptist Church soon after the extremist group announced plans to picket Sandy Hook Elementary School to praise God for sending the gunman, Mashable reports. The online activists published the emails, phone numbers, and home addresses of Westboro members, taunted the group on Twitter...

New School Readied for Newtown Survivors

After massacre, Sandy Hook may never reopen

(Newser) - The sound of kids' voices may never again fill the halls of the Sandy Hook Elementary School where a gunman killed 20 children and six adults, USA Today reports. Work crews are fixing up an unused school some 15 minutes away and it will be ready for Sandy Hook's...

Obama: Newtown, You Are Not Alone

At memorial, he pledges to curb violence

(Newser) - At a nationally televised memorial service for the Newtown school shooting victims, President Obama told the town's shattered people that America shared their grief and vowed to do everything in his power to prevent further tragedies. "I can only hope it helps for you to know that you’...

Lanza Shot His Mom Multiple Times, Himself as Help Arrived

Gunman might have had more deadly plan

(Newser) - The gunman in the Connecticut shooting rampage shot his mother multiple times in the head before going to the school and gunning down 26, and he committed suicide as first responders closed in, authorities said today, raising the specter that Adam Lanza had planned an even more gruesome massacre and...

Cops Bust Indiana Guy With 47 Guns After School Threat

He also had $100K in ammunition at his house

(Newser) - A northern Indiana man who allegedly threatened to "kill as many people as he could" at an elementary school near his home was arrested by officers who later found 47 guns and $100,000 in ammunition hidden throughout his home. Von I. Meyer, 60, of Cedar Lake, was arrested...

These Are the Newtown Victims
 These Are the Newtown Victims 
Dec 16, 2012 10:03 AM CST

These Are the Newtown Victims

AP gets a look at some of the lives lost in Friday's massacre

(Newser) - The names of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary shootings were released yesterday , and glimpses into their lives, snapshots, and tributes are emerging this morning. Dad Robbie Parker last night remembered 6-year-old Emilie, reports the LA Times , the first parent to speak publicly of his lost child. "All...

SNL Open Honors Conn. Victims
 SNL Honors Conn. Victims 
Dec 16, 2012 7:03 AM CST

SNL Honors Conn. Victims

New York Children's Chorus sings 'Silent Night'

(Newser) - Saturday Night Live shelved the jokes for last night's Cold Open, opting instead to let the kids do the talking in the wake of Friday's Connecticut school shooting : The show opened with the voices of the New York Children's Chorus singing "Silent Night" without accompaniment, reports...

Obama Headed to Conn. Today

Commander-in-chief's 4th turn at aftermath of a mass shooting

(Newser) - Making a sadly familiar journey, President Barack Obama will attend an evening vigil in Newtown, Conn., to mourn with a town still seeking to comprehend the unimaginable massacre of its children and teachers. His visit today to this southeastern Connecticut community comes two days after a man opened fire inside...

Oklahoma Student Nabbed in School-Shooting Plot

Sammie Chavez tried to recruit students in cafeteria: cops

(Newser) - The morning of one school shooting, another may have been averted: Police arrested a teenager in northern Oklahoma yesterday for allegedly planning a Columbine-style attack on his high school. Authorities say 18-year-old Sammie Chavez tried to recruit students at Bartlesville High School's cafeteria this week for the massive gun-and-bomb...

20 Kids Among 27 Killed in School Shooting

Adam Lanza killed his mother, then went to the school, say police

(Newser) - Details in this morning's horrific school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, are clarifying: A young man killed his mother at their home, then drove to the elementary school he attended as a youth and killed 20 schoolchildren and six adults, reports the Hartford Courant . The shooter, identified as 20-year-old Adam...

Today's Shooting Worse Than Columbine

Death toll in Conn. school tragedy 2nd worst in US history

(Newser) - With 27 believed dead, NBC News puts today's horrific Connecticut school shooting in the context of others our country has weathered, and it's as devastating as it seems: It's worse than Columbine. The Sandy Hook Elementary shooting is the second worst in our nation's history, topped...

3 Dead After Attack at Wyoming College

Suspect is among those killed, say police

(Newser) - A man wielding a sharp-edged weapon killed one person in a Casper neighborhood today before killing a male teacher and himself in a community college classroom, causing a campus-wide lockdown as authorities tried to piece together what happened. Police found the suspect and one of the victims dead at a...

Shooting Erupts at USC Halloween Party

Argument between 2 men leads to gunfire

(Newser) - A crowded Halloween party at the University of Southern California took a truly scary turn early today, after a reported argument between two non-students escalated to a shooting. A rep for the university's department of public safety tells CNN that one of the men was critically wounded and three...

Boy, 15, Charged as Adult in Baltimore School Shooting

Robert Wayne Gladden Jr. allegedly brought 20 rounds of shotgun ammo to school

(Newser) - Prosecutors have charged a 15-year-old with attempted first-degree murder and assault, and intend to try him as an adult in yesterday's shooting at Baltimore's Perry Hall School. Robert Wayne Gladden Jr. allegedly shot 17-year-old Daniel Borowy in the back in the cafeteria yesterday, before being tackled by school...

Student Shot at Baltimore High School

Suspect is in custody: police

(Newser) - A 17-year-old Baltimore high school student was shot today on the first day of school. Police tell the Baltimore Sun that the male Perry Hall High School student, whose condition was not available, was taken to a hospital. The suspect is in custody and the rest of the students have...

Gunman, 2 Others Dead in Texas Shooting

Police officer and civilian were killed in gunfight

(Newser) - A gunman, a police officer, and a male civilian are dead in a shooting this afternoon near Texas A&M University, reports KHOU . Police say Thomas Cafall, 35, gunned down 41-year-old constable Brian Bachmann while the officer tried to serve an eviction notice at a small house in College Station,...

Teacher Arrested for Firing Blanks at Students

Shop teacher lined 12 students up, pulled out handgun

(Newser) - A high school teacher in Virginia has been arrested for what appears to have been a bizarre attempt to get his class to pay attention. Police say Manuel Dillow, 60, lined up a dozen students from his welding class in front of a garage door, pulled a handgun from his...

Calif. Gunman: 'Get in Line, I'm Going to Kill You All'

One L. Goh, 43, identified as suspected shooter at Oikos University

(Newser) - The suspected shooter accused of killing seven people on a Christian college campus in Oakland, one of the worst mass killings in California's history, has been identified as 43-year-old One L. Goh, a naturalized citizen from Korea, the Los Angeles Times reports. Goh was upset after having been dismissed...

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