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I’m looking out of my window and the sun is glistening away, the sky is super clear and the weather is just beautiful- spring is here saying hello to us all. It’s nice to watch the world go by through my attic window, or should I say, looking at how still my surroundings are. Despite the lockdown, I’m beginning to appreciate what it means to have our freedom restricted; I’m so used to going out that the thought of being cooped in for three weeks is getting me down. I’ve decided to use this time instead to channel it into my artwork and the first thing that popped into my head was Studio Ghibli. For ages, I’ve always wanted to do some fan art and now is the time to start it!

It’s my own mish-mash of our cats and Studio Ghibli- I think they work rather well together! I’m planning on doing some more next week as it’s been quite fun to do something to take my mind off things. Also, NTS Radio have three shows dedicated to the beautiful music of Studio Ghibli if you’re looking for some serene and gentle music to pass the time away. If that’s not enough you should definitely listen to Ghibliotheque which is a podcast dedicated to all things Ghibli. They had a talk a few weeks ago at The Moth Club in Hackney which was Z-A of Studio Ghibli (I can’t seem to find the podcast for it though). That said, Netflix have the whole catalogue online now so binge away everyone!

On that note, I’m going to end my post here with some music from Joe Hisaishi-  this has to be one of my favourite tracks. This is from My Neighbour Totoro ‘Path of the Wind’ (I walked down the aisle to this!!!).

Keep safe everyone xx

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    High school loner to cold-blooded executioner: How ‘genius’ honor
    student Adam Lanza became masked killer

    The shooter, Adam Lanza, 20, is confirmed dead

    Peers remember him as a quiet and extremely intelligent student who kept to himself and carried black briefcase
    to class

    Brother Ryan, 24, an accountant at Ernst and Young, said Adam had personality disorder

    Gunman killed his mother at home they shared in Newtown,
    then stole her guns and carried out massacre

    Reporters broke the news of the massacre to
    Adam’s father, Peter, who is divorced from the mother and lives
    in Stamford, Connecticut with new wife

    Moved to tears, President Obama says ‘our hearts are broken today’

    Flags around America being flown at half staff

    By RACHEL QUIGLEY and THOMAS DURANTE IN NEWTOWN, CONNECTICUT and HAYLEY PETERSON

    Published: 15:40 BST, 14 December 2012 | Updated:
    19:16 BST, 17 December 2012

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    Adam Lanza, a troubled 20-year-old loner with a history of autistic behavior, is the
    monster behind a horrific shooting at a Connecticut elementary school

    A troubled 20-year-old loner with a history of autistic behavior is the monster behind
    a horrific shooting at a Connecticut elementary school
    that left 26 people, including 20 children, dead on Friday.

    Adam Lanza shot his mother, Nancy, at the upscale suburban home
    they shared together and then took three of her guns and drove to Sandy Hook Elementary School about 9.30am.

    He used two semi-automatic pistols, a Glock and Sig Sauer, and reportedly wiped out an entire
    classroom of young children, then shot several in a second class before
    taking his own life.

    Witnesses say Lanza was going from room to room shooting
    people, after first killing the principal Dawn Hochsprung and the school
    psychologist Mary Sherlach execution-style when they confronted him in the hallway.

    Parents who had not already been united with their children at the nearby fire station were told
    to assume the worst. One witness told WCBS: ‘Police
    just told us everyone presumed missing is in the
    school and they are dead.’

    Lanza used to be a mild-mannered student in high school, making the honor roll, and living with his
    mother, Nancy Lanza, who in turn loved playing dice games
    and decorating their upscale home for the holidays.

    A student in his tenth grade Honors English class recalled he
    was very quiet, very thin and carried a black
    briefcase to class, which stuck out when all the other kids carried backpacks.

    He dressed more formally than other students, often wearing khaki pants, button-down shirts and
    at times, a pocket protector. Many recalled that he was highly intelligent.

    Scroll down for video

    Adam Lanza shot his mother, Nancy, before driving to
    Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting 26 people including 20 children

    Brother: Adam’s 24-year-old brother, Ryan Lanza, is seen being led away
    from his Hoboken home in New Jersey to be questioned by police over the shooting

    Ryan Lanza is escorted to a car outside his home in Hoboken by law enforcement.
    Police said he has been very cooperative during the investigation

    Tragic: Traumatized students were seen being led out of the school crying and holding hands after
    the massacre

    The families of victims grieve near Sandy Hook Elementary School.
    Piers Morgan felt deeply affected by the tragedy

    President Obama wept as he spoke of the mindless shooting.

    He seems to agree it’s time for action over gun control

    Heavily armed Connecticut State troopers and FBI agents swarmed to the scene at Sandy Hook High School

    People arrive for a prayer vigil at the Newtown United Methodist Church following a shooting
    at the Sandy Hook Elementary School

    Map of area surrounding Sandy Hook Elementary
    School in Newtown, Connecticut, where a gunman killed at least 26 people, 20 of them small
    children

    A TROUBLED LONER: EMERGING PORTRAIT OF ADAM LANZA

    Ryan Lanza’s high school classmates always knew something
    was different about him.

    He almost never spoke in class, but made good grades and was an honors student.
    And he always seemed profoundly uncomfortable in social situations.

    A portrait is emerging of the alleged shooter who killed 26 people and
    himself during a rampage at the elementary school where his mother taught kindergarten.

    It was widely understood that he had mental disabilities – either Asperger syndrome or more
    severe autism.

    A former babysitter told the Washington Post he was
    ‘rambunctious’ as a teenager and prone to temper tantrums.

    He had to be medicated to control his moods.

    Olivia DeVivo, a student at the University of Connecticut who went to
    high school with Lanza, said that when it emerged that he was
    suspected of gunning down 20 small children – none of her classmates were surprised.

    ‘They said he always seemed like he was someone who was capable of that because he just didn’t really connect with our high
    school, and didn’t really connect with our town,’ she told the
    New York Times.

    Lamza, 20, lived with his mother Nancy in a quiet, upscale subdivision in Newtown, Connecticut.

    Before his alleged rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Friday, he reportedly shot his mother in the face at her home.

    He then took her car and three guns registered registered to her and went on a killing spree – starting with her
    kindergarten class, police say.

     Students described being ushered from their classrooms hand-in-hand, with their eyes closed, to the safety
    of a nearby fire station as police converged on the school.

    ‘Everyone just assumed he was a smart kid and that’s why he didn’t like talking to people all the time,’ Peter Lalli, 20,
    who graduated with Lanza in 2010, told the New York Daily News.
    ‘He hung out with the smart crowd.’

    Another former classmate said Adam has been ‘a weird kid since we were five years old.’
    Tim Dalton wrote on Twitter: ‘As horrible as this was, I can’t say I
    am surprised…. Burn in hell, Adam.’

    Quoting a ‘family insider,’ the New York Daily News reported that
    Adam was a ‘deeply disturbed kid’ who ‘certainly had major issues’
    and was ‘subject to outbursts.’

    Lanza’s aunt, Marsha Lanza, said her nephew was raised by kind,
    nurturing parents who would not have hesitated to
    seek mental help for him if he needed it.

    The Crystal Lake, Illinois resident told the Associated Press she was close with Adam Lanza’s mother
    and sent her a Facebook message Friday morning asking
    how she was doing. Nancy Lanza never responded.

    Marsha Lanza described Nancy Lanza as a good mother
    and kind-hearted. If her son had needed counseling, ‘Nancy wasn’t
    one to deny reality,’ she said.

    Marsha Lanza said her husband saw Adam as recently as June and recalled nothing
    out of the ordinary about him.

    However, another relative to the family said that Adam Lanza
    was ‘obviously not well,’ adding that he often seemed troubled.

    They described Nancy as being rigid and
    at times, overbearing.

    His father, Peter Lanza, had divorced Nancy
    in 2008 because of ‘irreconcilable differences,’ and now lives in Stamford,
    Connecticut. A reporter for the Stamford Advocate broke the
    news to him that his son had allegedly shot and killed 26 people, including his
    ex-wife.

    He works as the vice president of taxes for GE Energy Financial Services,
    and lives with his new wife on a sprawling street glittered with multimillion-dollar homes.
    The couple apparently married in 2011.

    One neighbor told MailOnline that her daughters had visited the house while trick or treating on Halloween, and
    that an older woman answered the door.

    A man several houses down, who said he was friends with the couple, declined to give his name,
    saying only that they are ‘great people’ and ‘my heart bleeds for them.’

    Pia Conte, 47, who lives in the neighborhood and has two sons
    in their 20s, said Lanza and his girlfriend kept to themselves.

    Ms Conte called the ordeal ‘sad’ for Lanza and his family,
    and suggested that the violence is a portion of a much larger situation.

    ‘Guns are easy to point to, but it’s really a mental health issue.’

    Catherine Urso, who was attending a vigil Friday evening in Newtown said her college-age son knew the killer and remembered him for his alternative
    style.

    ‘He just said he was very thin, very remote and was
    one of the goths,’ she said.

    Alex Israel described her former classmate Adam Lanza as crazy

    Beth Israel tweeted that shooter Adam Lanza was troubled for a long time

    Jacob Wycoff also tweeted that Adam was autistic

    Adam Lanza belonged to a technology club at
    Newtown High School that held ‘LAN parties’ – short for local area network – in which students would gather at a
    member’s home, hook up their computers into a small network
    and play games.

    Gloria Milas, whose son Joshua was in the club with Lanza, hosted one of the parties once.

    She recalled a school meeting in 2008 organized by the gunman’s mother to try
    to save the job of the club’s adviser. At the meeting, Milas said, Adam Lanza’s brother Ryan said
    a few words in support of the adviser, who he said had taken his brother under his wing.

    ‘My brother has always been a nerd,’ Ryan Lanza said then, according to
    Milas. ‘He still wears a pocket protector.’

    Alex Israel, pictured, told Piers Morgan that Adam Lanza was
    a loner who kept to himself

    Joshua Milas, who graduated from Newtown High School in 2009, said Adam Lanza was generally a happy
    person but that he hadn’t seen him in a few years.

    ‘We would hang out, and he was a good kid. He was smart,’ Joshua Milas told the AP.
    ‘He was probably one of the smartest kids I know. He was
    probably a genius.’

    Lanza and his mother, Nancy, lived in a well-to-do part of Newtown, a prosperous community of 27,000 people about 60 miles northeast of New York City.
    Neighbors said that the mother always took great pride in her Colonial-style house, and always kept
    her home tidy.

    The four-bedroom, three-bathroom house is estimated to be worth around $537,000,
    and is situated on 2.19 acres of land.

    He graduated high school in 2010, but was not pictured in the
    school yearbook. Rather, a block reading ‘camera
    shy’ is the entire imprint he left.

    A grandmother of the suspect – who is also the mother of Nancy Lanza – was too distraught
    to speak when reached by phone at her home in Brooksville,
    Florida.

    ‘I just don’t know, and I can’t make a comment right now,’ Dorothy Hanson, 78, said in a
    shaky voice as she started to cry. She said she hadn’t heard
    anything official about her daughter and grandsons.
    She declined to comment further and hung up.

    Adam’s brother Ryan, 24, who was originally thought
    to have been the shooter, was being questioned by police after he was arrested at
    his home in Hoboken, New Jersey.

    He was on a bus on his way home from work when he was being named as the gunman and posted on Facebook
    that it wasn’t him.

    Ryan Lanza had been extremely cooperative and was not under arrest or in custody
    by Saturday morning, but investigators were still searching his computers and phone records.

    He told law enforcement he had not been in touch with his brother since about
    2010.

    Brett Wilshe, a friend of Ryan Lanza’s, said he sent him a
    Facebook message Friday asking what was going on and if he was OK.
    According to Wilshe, Lanza’s reply was something along the lines of: ‘It was my brother.

    I think my mother is dead. Oh my God.’

    Ryan Lanza, brother of Sandy Hook Elementary mass shooting suspect
    Adam Lanza, is seen being led away by cops, left,  and in photos pulled from his
    Facebook page, right

    A U.S. flag flies at half staff in front of the Reed Intermediate School in Newtown, Connecticut

    A couple comfort each other after the mass shooting, left, and Principal Dawn Hochsprung, right, is
    one of the 26 who were shot dead at the school

    Music teacher Maryrose Kristopik, circled, has been hailed a hero
    after taking 15 children and putting them in a closet, undoubtedly saving
    their lives

    A woman walks past a fire truck in disbelief outside a fire house near the Sandy Hook Elementary
    School where children were gathered after the shooting

    Newtown community members turned out in their hundreds to offer support and reflection after a tragic day in which a gunman murdered 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary
    School

    Adam Lanza shot his mother at her home before driving in her car to the
    elementary school and shooting dead 26 people before turning the gun on himself

    Sandy Hook Elementary School is in Newtown, Connecticut,
    where Nancy Lanza lived. Son Ryan lives in Hoboken, New Jersey

    A woman waits to hear about her sister, a teacher, following the tragic shooting this
    morning which has shocked the quiet suburban community

    Chaotic scenes at the school as police work to secure the area and bodies are carried out of the school

    Young children wait outside Sandy Hook Elementary School immediately after the shooting

    Parents leave a staging area after being reunited with their children following a shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary
    School

    A member of the Connecticut State police leaves the scene outside the Sandy Hook Elementary School,
    left, as parents comfort each other, right

    People gather outside the White House to participate in a candle
    light vigil to remember the victims at the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut

    ‘IT’S TIME FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION’ SAYS MAYOR BLOOMBERG

    ‘We heard after Columbine that it was too soon to talk about gun laws.
    We heard it after Virginia Tech. After Tucson and Aurora and Oak
    Creek. And now we are hearing it again.

    For every day we wait, 34 more people are murdered
    with guns. Today, many of them were five-year-olds.

    President Obama rightly sent his heartfelt
    condolences to the families in Newtown. But the country needs him
    to send a bill to Congress to fix this problem.

    Calling for “meaningful action” is not enough. We need immediate
    action.’

    -Mayor Bloomberg

    Several local news clippings from recent years mention his
    name among Newtown High School’s honor roll students.

    A neighbor in Newtown, Rhonda Cullens, said she knew Nancy Lanza from monthly get-togethers the neighborhood women had a few years back for games of bunco, a dice game.

    ‘She was a very nice lady,’ Ms Cullens told the AP.
    ‘She was just like all the rest of us in the neighborhood, just a regular
    person.’

    Ms Cullens recalled that Mrs Lanza liked to garden and to make her house look nice for
    the holidays. Lanza joked, though, that no one noticed
    because the house was out of view, up a hill, she
    said.

    Sandeep Kapur, who lives two doors down from the Lanza family in Newtown, said he did not know them and was unaware
    of any disturbances at the Lanza house in the three
    years that he and his family have been in the neighborhood.

    He described the area as a subdivision of well-tended, 15-year-old homes on lots of an acre
    or more, where many people work at companies like General Electric, Pepsi and
    IBM. Some are doctors, and his next-door neighbor is a bank CEO, said Kapur, a project manager at an information technology firm.

    ‘The neighborhood’s great. We have young kids,
    and they have lots of friends,’ he said. ‘If you drive past this
    neighborhood, it gives you a really warm feeling.’

    Beth Israel on Friday tweeted that her daughter went to
    school with him and he was ‘troubled for a long time.’

    Alex Israel spoke to CNN about how she went to school with Adam and she
    described him as a fidgety, quiet loner.

    She also said he was a highly intelligent student, ‘above the rest of us.’

    But she said he was never violent.

    She tweeted earlier in the day that he was ‘crazy.’

     

    A boy weeps as he is told what happened after being picked up at Reed Intermediate School following the Sandy Hook Elementary
    School shooting

    A woman talks to a state police officer for news about the 29 people believed to have been shot dead
    at the school

    Nancy Lanza’s home in Newtown, Connecticut, where she was found shot dead from a gunshot wound to the face

    A visibly shocked Governor Dan Molloy joins armed
    law enforcement officers as they respond to the scene of
    multiple deaths reported after a shooting incident at Sandy Hook Elementary School

    Emergency personnel, parents and teachers swarmed to Sandy Hook Elementary School after
    the gunman opened fire

    Father: Peter Lanza, a wealthy executive for General Electric, who is believed to earn $1million a year, moved out of the family home
    in 2006

    The gunman’s father Peter Lanza, declined to comment after police performed a welfare check on him.

    Neighbors said he recently remarried.

    Mr Lanza learned of the tragic and senseless massacre by reporters who had
    flocked to his home.

    He arrived shortly after police left and asked what the problem was.

    The Stamford Advocate said his expression shifted from patient to surprise to horror.

    Newtown was once named one of the safest places to live in America and before this morning, there had been one murder in a decade.

    The President addressed a stunned nation five hours after the shooting and openly wept as he spoke of the mindless shooting saying: ‘Our hearts
    are broken today.’

    Seldom has a head of state expressed greater public emotion in modern times.

    Obama struggled for words, pausing several times as he
    wiped away tears saying, ‘This evening, Michelle and I will…hug our children a little
    tighter, and we’ll tell them that we love them.’

    Lanza is believed to have shot himself at the scene, according to the New York Times.

    He was carrying three weapons including two handguns and a rifle and was wearing a bullet-proof vest,
    a mask and black military gear.

    Three guns were found at the scene – a Glock and a Sig Sauer, both pistols
    – and a .223-caliber rifle.

    The rifle was recovered from the back of a car at the school.
    The two pistols were recovered from inside the school.
    They were legally registered to Nancy Lanza.

    A number of children were found hiding in closets in the school five hours after
    the shooting.

    One mother told CBS that her child said there were bullets
    ‘whizzing by’ him in the hallway and that a teacher pulled him into a classroom.
    It was said to have been like a ‘war zone.’

    Speaking inside the St Rose of Lima church in Newtown tonight, Governor of
    Connecticut Dan Malloy said: ‘In the coming days and in the coming
    weeks, I will pray that you all embrace one another that you lift one another up, that you understand the difficulties that you collectively will undergo.

    ‘Keep in your prayers the children who lost their lives today, keep in your prayers the adults who lost their lives today.’

    A PRESIDENT BREAKS DOWN AS ‘HEARTS ARE BROKEN’: OBAMA’S SPEECH IN FULL

    This afternoon, I spoke with Governor Malloy and FBI Director
    Mueller. I offered Governor Malloy my condolences on behalf of the nation, and made
    it clear he will have every single resource that he needs
    to investigate this heinous crime, care for the victims, counsel their families.

    We’ve endured too many of these tragedies in the past few years.  And each time I learn the news I react not as a President, but as anybody else would — as
    a parent.  And that was especially true today.  I
    know there’s not a parent in America who doesn’t feel the same overwhelming grief that I do.

     

    The majority of those who died today were children — beautiful little kids between the ages of five and ten years old. 

    They had their entire lives ahead of them — birthdays, graduations, weddings, kids of their own.  Among the
    fallen were also teachers — men and women who devoted their lives to helping our children fulfill their dreams.
     

    So our hearts are broken today — for the parents and grandparents, sisters and brothers of these little children, and for the families of the adults who were lost. 

    Our hearts are broken for the parents of the survivors as well, for as blessed as they are
    to have their children home tonight, they know that their children’s innocence has been torn away from them
    too early, and there are no words that will ease their pain.  

    As a country, we have been through this too many times.  Whether it’s an elementary school in Newtown, or a shopping
    mall in Oregon, or a temple in Wisconsin, or a movie theater in Aurora, or a street corner in Chicago — these neighborhoods are our
    neighborhoods, and these children are our children. 

    And we’re going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent
    more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics.

    This evening, Michelle and I will do what I know every parent in America will do,
    which is hug our children a little tighter and we’ll tell them that we love
    them, and we’ll remind each other how deeply we love one another. 

    But there are families in Connecticut who cannot do that tonight.  And they need all of us right now.  In the hard days to come, that community
    needs us to be at our best as Americans.  And I will do everything in my power as President
    to help.

    Because while nothing can fill the space of a lost child or loved one,
    all of us can extend a hand to those in need — to remind them that
    we are there for them, that we are praying for them, that the love they
    felt for those they lost endures not just in their memories but also in ours.

    May God bless the memory of the victims and, in the words
    of Scripture, heal the brokenhearted and bind up their
    wounds.

    Hundreds of officers swarmed the building as students were evacuated
    after a gunman went from classroom to classroom shooting students and teachers

    A mother runs with her children, left, as police canvass homes in the area following a shooting at the
    Sandy Hook Elementary School, and another comforts her traumatized child, right

    Adam Lanza allegedly stole his mother’s car
    keys after shooting her dead and drove the car, pictured,
    to the school to carry out the massacre

    There are preliminary reports a students father, who is believed to be 20-years-old and from New Jersey, was the shooter.

    He was killed at the scene though it is unclear if he shot himself
    or was brought down by an officer

    Parents pick-up children outside Sandy Hook Elementary School after 18 students and two adults were shot dead this morning

    Hundreds of officers, sniffer dogs, and firefighters patrol the streets
    outside Sandy Hook Elementary School to secure the area

    Mayor Bloomberg said tonight that immediate action must be taken over gun laws
    in the U.S.

    He said: ‘We heard after Columbine that it was too soon to
    talk about gun laws. We heard it after Virginia Tech. After Tucson and Aurora and Oak Creek.

    And now we are hearing it again.

    ‘For every day we wait, 34 more people are murdered with
    guns. Today, many of them were five-year olds.

    President Obama rightly sent his heartfelt condolences to the families in Newtown.

    ‘But the country needs him to send a bill to Congress to fix this problem.
    Calling for ‘meaningful action’ is not enough. We need immediate action.’

    The shooting is the latest in a series of high-profile gun crimes in American schools and colleges, that is especially shocking given the age of the students involved

    At Ryan Lanza’s home in Hoboken, New Jersey, around 20
    armed state police could be seen coming out of the house having apparently searched it at
    around 3pm.

    Ryan was then led out in cuffs. He had earlier taken to Facebook to dispel rumors that
    he was the shooter and told a friend he believed it was his mentally disabled
    brother.

    A parent told MailOnline Lanza battered on a closet where 15 children and their music teacher were locked inside shouting:
    ‘Let me in! Let me in!’

    The mother, in her 40s, who declined to give her name, praised the quick-thinking actions of Maryrose Kristopik: ‘I want to thank my
    child’s music teacher. She saved their lives.

    ‘The shooter kept banging on the door screaming: “Let me in! Let me in!” but he didn’t get
    in.

    ‘Now I have to explain to my nine-year-old son that his
    friends won’t be coming back. How am I supposed to do
    that?’

    Alberta Bajraliu 41, got a call from a friend who heard a
    gunshot at the school and told her to check it out.

    Mrs Alberta’s nine-year-old daughter Venesa was at the school but her two other children are not.

    She said: ‘I was one of the first there and they
    were bringing children out, carrying them out. One girl came out and her face was covered in blood.
    It was terrible.

    VIDEO: The nation tries to come to terms with the tragedy 

    Paramedics push stretchers toward Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown,
    after the mass shooting this morning

    Lindsay Merikas, 26, of Alexandria, Virgina, wears a button saying
    ‘Stop Gun Violence’ as she gathered with other supporters
    of gun control on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House

    Families grieve, left, and a man carries a child away from the area of a shooting
    at the elementary school, right

    ‘Another girl just looked shocked. They brought one girl out and I thought it was my daughter.
    They asked me: ‘Does she have black trousers?’ and
    I said no as Venesa had jeans.

    ‘When I saw her I just felt so relieved. She has not spoken much about what happened.
    She said she was in an art class and the teacher
    closed the door and they were waiting until they could get out.

    Miss Bajraliu also paid tribute to the school’s
    principal Dawn Hochsprung who is believed to have been killed.
    She said: ‘She would have done anything for her children’.

    Josh Milas, 21, a former pupil at the school, also paid tribute to her and said: ‘She
    loved those kids. She was a great person’.

    Dawn Hochsprung, 47, has been the principal at Sandy Hook
    Elementary school since July 2010.

    One teacher is confirmed to have been shot in the foot and is being treated at
    a local hospital.

    The mayor said they are not releasing names until next-of-kin have been notified.

    Two handguns have been recovered at the scene and police have cordoned off a black Honda with
    New Jersey plates believed to belong to the dead shooter.

    Hundreds of officers and police dogs had the area surrounded as they
    worked to secure the scene.

    Teachers and students were said to be in morning meetings when the
    shots were fired. The children were locked inside their classrooms until police
    came and evacuated them to a nearby fire station.

    One child was seen being carried from the school by a police officer, apparently seriously wounded.

    A person in one room had ‘numerous gunshot wounds’, police told the The Hartford Courant.

    Traumatized students were seen being led out of the school crying and
    holding hands shortly after the shots rang out.

    There were also reports that a bomb squad was being called into the school.
    A helicopter was flying over the scene.

    Frantic parents were rushing to the school as they were
    advised to go to the nearby fire station with ID to pick up their children.

    A witness told News8 he saw one child with a bloodied face and another with
    a hand injury.

    The school has about 600 students from kindergarten through to
    fourth grade – aged between five and 11.

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    President Obama was first notified of the shooting
    at a Connecticut elementary school at 10:30am , White House press secretary
    Jay Carney said.

    The president has been receiving updates and will continue to throughout the
    day, Carney added.

    A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE: AMERICA’S WORST SCHOOL MASSACRES

    1. Virginia Tech – 32 dead plus the shooter, 16 April
    2007, Blacksburg, Virginia

    Student Seung Hui Cho, 23, killed two stuidents in a dorm and then went through building
    of classrooms armed with two handguns, shooting at random before killing himself.

     2. University of Texas – 16 dead plus shooter, 1 August 1966, Austin, Texas

    Former Marine sniper Charles Whitman, 25, armed with an arsenal of weapons shot victims
    from the observation deck of the campus tower.

    3. Columbine High School – 13 dead plus two shooters,
    20 April 1999, Littleton, Colorado

    Students Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, opened fire outside the school
    killing students and one teacher before shooting themselves in the library.

    4. Red Lake High School – 9 dead plus shooter, 21 March 2005, Red
    Lake, Minnesota

    Jeffrey Weise, 17, goes on a shooting spree at Red Lake High School killing nine people, including his grandfather, before shooting himself.

    5. University of Iowa – five dead plus shooter, 1 November 1991, University
    of Iowa

    Gang Lu, 27, a graduate student from China killed
    five with a .38-caliber revolver. He was apparently angry because his doctoral dissertation had not been nominated for an academic
    award.

    6. Amish schoolhouse massacre – six dead plus shooter, 2 October 2, 2006, Nickel Mines,
    Pennsylvania

    Charles Carl Roberts IV, 32, executes five girls aged 7 to 13 before killing
    himself in a small Amish schoolhouse

    7. Jonesboro, Arkansas – five dead, 24 March 1998, Jonesboro, Arkansas

    Mitchell Johnson, 10, and Andrew Golden, 8, took seven guns to school and pulled the fire alarm
    and shot students as they headed for the exits. Four died plus a teacher.
    The pair were sent to a juvenile detention center and released
    in 2005.

    8. Cleveland Elementary School – five dead plus shooter,
    17 January 1989, in Stockton, California

    Patrick Edward Purdy entered a schoolyard and
    opened fire with a semiautomatic rifle at Cleveland Elementary
    School. Five children died and 30 others were wounded including one teacher.
    He then shot himself.

    9. University of Arizona – three dead plus shooter,
    28 October 2002, University of Arizona

    Robert Flores, 40, a nursing student shot an instructor in her office before entering a classroom and killing two more teachers
    before committing suicide.

    10. Kent State University – four dead, 4 May 1970, Kent State University in Ohio

    National Guard troops killed four students who took part in anti-war protests on the campus of Kent State
    University in Ohio.

    ‘If we get more information and as we get more information,
    we’ll certainly provide it to you. The president as a father and I
    as a father certainly … feel enormous sympathy for families that are affected and to do everything we can to support state and local law enforcement, to
    support those who are enduring what appears to be a very tragic event.’

    First Selectman Pat Llodra told Patch that there is no
    information being released about the victims — only confirming that there was a shooting.

    ‘I’m horrified, saddened and shocked that this happened in Newtown,’ Llodra said.
    ‘Our priorities right now are making sure everyone safe and reuniting parents with their
    children.’

    One mother of an eight-year-old girl at the school, Brenda Lebinski,
    told Patch that her daughter is safe thanks to one teacher’s decision to move all kids into
    a closet when a gunman had entered the building.

    Mrs Lebinski said that she had spoken to her daughter’s teacher who was in the school at the time of the shooting, and that
    a masked gunman had shot adults in the school.

    ‘My daughter’s teacher is my hero,’ Lebinski said. ‘She locked all the
    kids in a closet and that saved their lives.’

     

    Teachers and students were said to be in morning meetings
    when the shots were fired. The children were locked inside their classrooms until police came and evacuated them to a nearby fire station

    As well as police and firefighters, there were reports that a bomb squad was being called into the school.
    A helicopter was also flying over the scene

    There are unconfirmed reports of two shooters, one is believed to
    be dead and the other still at large

    There were reports of frantic parents rushing to the school though officials are
    telling them to stay at home by the phone

    SECURITY MEASURES CAN’T PREVENT ANOTHER U.S. SCHOOL SHOOTING

    American public schools use a variety of security measures to
    protect students and staff.

    Almost 94 per cent of U.S. elementary schools lock their doors
    during the school day to restrict access to campuses.

    Some 84 per cent of high schools, 73 per cent of middle schools, and 51 per
    cent of elementary schools use security cameras
    to monitor their schools, according to the U.S.

    Department of Education.

    Increasing numbers of security guards are in place at U.S.
    public schools as a result of gun crime with metal detectors also in use across the country.

    Yet despite security measures school shootings in America are still common place.

    On February 10 2012 a 14-year-old from New Hampshire called Hunter Mack shot himself in the
    face at Walpole Elementary School cafeteria.

    Two weeks later student T.J. Lane, 17, allegedly opened fire at Chardon High
    School, Ohio, killing two and injuring three.

    Seven were killed and 10 injured at a shooting at Oikos University, in Oakland, California on 2 April.
    One L. Goh, 43, a Korean national surrendered to police.

    Police arrested 15-year-old Robert Gladden and charged him
    as an adult after a student opened fire on the first day of
    school, at Perry Hall High School, Baltimore, in August.

    The 15-year-old allegedly opened fire before being rushed by
    teachers.

    Teachers again stopped a shooter on September 7 when a 14-year-old
    was tackled to the floor after shooting at the ceiling at Normal
    Community High School, Illinois.

    On September 26 eight grader Cade Poulos killed himself at Stillwater Junior High School
    in Oklahoma.

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