Students described being ushered into bathrooms and closets by teachers after hearing the first shots. In one classroom was Lauren Rousseau, a substitute teacher who was filling in for a teacher out on maternity leave. The gunman shot all 14 students in the classroom, law enforcement officers said. In another classroom, Victoria Soto, 27, moved her first-grade students away from the door.
The gunman burst in and shot her, according to the father of a surviving student. Six students were killed in that classroom. At the police station, dispatchers began to take calls from inside the school. Authorities say the first emergency call about the shooting came in at "approximately" a. Caller is indicating she thinks someone is shooting in the building," a dispatcher told fire and medical personnel, according to tapes. The first officer arrived on the scene of the Sandy Hook school shooting two minutes and 41 seconds after the first police radio broadcast of the shooting.
Previous CNN reporting cited an incorrect arrival time based on early reports. The gunman took his own life, police said. T he gun maker being sued by families who lost loved ones in the Sandy Hook shooting is seeking school records for some of the first-graders killed in the massacre, court filings show. Remington has filed subpoenas to obtain report cards, attendance lists and other academic records for five of the students who were murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
A total of 20 children and six faculty members were killed. The five students and four educators are part of a long-running wrongful death suit against Remington over its marketing practices.
Calling the subpoenas an invasion of privacy, Josh Koskoff, the attorney representing nine families of victims, filed a motion on Thursday to seal the documents, which include application and admission paperwork, transcripts and disciplinary records. News of the massacre reverberated across the country, and elicited a tearful reaction from then-President Barack Obama, who described it as the worst day of his presidency.
Read more : Michelle Obama remembers what the Sandy Hook school shooting was like, the 'darkest day' in the White House. Chris Murphy, who had previously been a representative for the district that included Newtown, was among those present when the families of the victims learned about the fates of their loved ones. And sad that I sent my youngest off to 1st grade this morning, and that I work with people who care more about politics than making sure he comes home safe.
In the six years that have passed since that day, many of the parents and families launched foundations in their kid's names to help other children, and become advocates for gun control. Source: Jessica Rekos Foundation. Source: Wall Street Journal. Source: Avielle Foundation. Source: The New York Post. Source: ABC News. Source: New York Daily News. Source: Caroline Previdi Foundation. Source: Boston Globe. Source: Patch. Source: Danbury News-Times. Dylan Hockley , 6.
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