According to officials 27 people are dead, including 18 children at the elementary school.
The American flag flies at half staff over the White House after President Barack Obama spoke about a Connecticut school shooting in Washington
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A mother runs with her children as police above canvass homes in the area following a shooting
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Parents leave a staging area after being reunited with their children following a shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School
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A woman waits to hear about her sister, a teacher, following a shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., about 60 miles (96 kilometers) northeast of New York City
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Law enforcement canvass the area following a shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School
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A woman holds a child as people line up to enter the Newtown Methodist Church near the scene of an elementary school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.
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Connecticut State Police walk near the scene of an elementary school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.
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The superintendent's office said the district had locked down schools in Newtown, about 60 miles northeast of New York City. Schools in neighboring towns also were locked down as a precaution.
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Students - some crying, others looking visibly frightened were escorted by adults through a parking lot in a line, hands on each other's shoulders.
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Parents pick-up their children after a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School
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Police patrol the streets outside the School
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Relatives react outside Sandy Hook Elementary School following the shooting.
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A boy weeps as he is told what happened after being picked up at Reed Intermediate School following the shooting.
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A couple embrace each other near Sandy Hook Elementary School, were a gunman opened fire on school children and staff.
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The shooter had ties with the school and was killed in the school.
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State police said Newtown police called them around 9:40 a.m. A SWAT team was among the throngs of police to respond.
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The shooter was killed and apparently had two guns
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A dispatcher at the Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps said a teacher had been shot in the foot and taken to Danbury Hospital
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The White House said Barack Obama was notified of the shooting and his spokesman Jay Carney said the president had "enormous sympathy for families that are affected."
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The official said that a gun used in the attacks is a .223-caliber rifle. The New Jersey state police are searching for a location in that state in connection with the shootings.
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Andrea Rynn, a spokeswoman at the hospital, said it had three patients from the school but she did not have information on the extent or nature of their injuries.
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State Police are on scene following a shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School
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