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audrinasmommy88

audrinasmommy88

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I dont know if you all have seen it, but there has been a mass shooting at an elementary school in Connecticut. 27 people are dead, which includes 18 children. They are interviewing the children and it is just making me cry. Pray for these kids and the families.
 
theyre saying there might be more than one shooter. One shooter is dead. But the cops think there might be more than one because of how many people are dead and the timing
 
oh, geez! I caught a bit of it on the news a while ago before I left to run some errands... they thought the principal had been shot and there was confirmation that one of the shooters was down, but at that time no one had ANY clue there were that many casualties!

what a horrible tragedy... I can't imagine what would possess adults to shoot up an elementary school (or at least, they said the shooter that was down was an adult)... god... the kids who survived are gonna be *beyond* traumatized and I can't even imagine the hell that the parents of the children who died are going through :(

:pray:
 
The shooter started in the principal's office. They were arguing and someone turned on the PA system so the teachers could hear what was going on and get the kids safe. One teacher heard it, got the kids in a corner and locked her door. Other kids weren't so lucky. The principal was shot and killed. The shooter is from New Jersey and is dead in the school but the police have to get a warrant from New Jersey to be able to do anything with the body. the news doesn't know if he shot himself or the SWAT team shot him. The police aren't releasing much yet. But they have done a search on the house of some relatives of the shooter and there is another dead body there. They dont know what the connection is yet. They dont know what the connection is with the school yet either. First they thought the shooter was a parent of a child there. But he is only 18-20 years old so they arent sure. He could be a kindergarten parent but arent sure
 
I've been watching it and crying for these families and those children. Makes me want to hug my son a little tighter today. I just can't wrap my mind around horror like this. What is wrong with people!!!!!!!!!!
 
They just announced that his mom is a teacher there, and he grew up in this town. Alot of the victims were her students. There is a body at his mother's house but they havent released if she is dead or not. Im guessing she is. This is why I chose to homeschool audrina. theres just too much going on in schools these days
 
I'm just in awe watching the TV. My son is sick today so we are in PJs just cuddled up and I keep crying and he says "don't cry mommy". I just am more emotional about stuff like this since becoming a mom. I'm almost speechless and I literally cannot even begin to fathom what those parents are going through. It is unimaginable.
I'm just so saddened. And then it depresses me that it takes stuff like this to remember priorities and what's important in this world.........
 
I completely agree with you Lisa. I just keep saying this is awful. i have no words for it. I cant imagine what these kids and parents are going through. I just want to know why he did it. Not that it matters, it wont bring these poor children back, but i want to know the reason. I want to know if there was any warning signs or letters he wrote. I wish I could just pack up and go there and help
 
This is the first I'm hearing of this. I purposely avoid the news. I know that sounds silly and probably ignorant, but I can't listen to or see things like that.
It makes me hysterical, then really angry. Because it makes me wonder what the hell goes on in peoples minds and why they do things like that. Like WTF possesses you to go into an elementary school and kill little kids? I mean, they're like 4-10 years old. What did they do to you?

I just turned it on. Oh my god. Its up to 20 children now.

I'm going to be crying all night. This is freaking horrible. I want to use a lot worse words, but the filter on here is stopping me.
 
the whole thing is just awful :(. I've had some pretty crappy stuff happen to me (losing my dad at 9 and my mom at 21), but I'm sure it pales in comparison to losing a child - that's gotta be one of the worst possible things for someone to have to go through. if you have children, you devote your entire life to them - practically everything you do is for them - and to have that taken away from you in such a horrible way... ugh. the whole thing is sickening.

I hate people as a general rule, but I would never actually DO anything to anyone, let alone to innocent bystanders and CHILDREN - it boggles my mind that anyone, EVER, could get the thought in their head that they have the right to destroy so many lives (or even one, for that matter). not just the immediate victims that they kill, but the families and friends of their victims who will *never* be the same... and in a situation like this, the entire community... I don't care what hell someone's life has been, there is NO excuse for crap like this. FFS, go slit your wrists in the privacy of your own home instead of feeling the need to take so many innocents out with you. there just aren't words to describe how awful things like this are.
 
It just really saddens me. Those poor kids that were killed and I cant imagine what the kids who witnessed their friends and teachers being killed are going through. I just dont understand why people do things like this. I also feel for the teachers that were trying desperately to protect the children. Its all so sad. What is this world coming to?
 
Like, what did you mom do to you to make you want to go into the school where she works and kill her and her students? Take it to Dr Phil like a normal person.
The kid who did it, is a kid himself. He was 20 years old.

The school lets people know what happens through an automated system, telling them there was a shooting. I could not imagine getting that phone call from the school. This is truly a parents worst nightmare. My heart is totally broken for these people.
 
This is all so confusing...first it was Ryan Lanza age 24 and now its his brother Adam Lanza who is 20...How did they determine in the beginning that it was Ryan? Grr...I hate when they dont have their info straight before reporting. Now its 20 kids killed and 6 adults. So was the mom at the school teaching or is she the one dead at the house?
 
The mom was at the school. The shooter was Adam, 20. They still don't know who is at the house I don't think. And 18 kids passed at the scene and 2 at the hospital. 6 adults, not including the shooter are dead. Then there is the person at his mom's house, and then someone somewhere else (at his house I think?)

He went there with a lot of guns. He had multiple on them and then more in the car, so he was way too prepared. Its like he was going to empty the clips from the guns he had in his hands, then go get more to the car and get more ammo and go back in. That is so scary. I have goosebumps right now.
I couldn't imagine being the first responder on the scene. I don't know how fire fighters, EMTs, police officers handle things like that.
 
This is the first I'm hearing of this story! That is just awful!
How traumatic it must have been for kids to see teachers and their friends be shot. And how do you tell the parents of the children who died? This is so sad, I'm praying for all the families! :pray:
 
Ahhhh...this new format is really bothering me today!

Someone said they pulled an adult out of the woods right after this happened. But he said he didn't do it. He didn't have an gun or anything on him. I think he was probably just in the woods.
 
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audrinasmommy88 said:
This is all so confusing...first it was Ryan Lanza age 24 and now its his brother Adam Lanza who is 20...How did they determine in the beginning that it was Ryan? Grr...I hate when they dont have their info straight before reporting. Now its 20 kids killed and 6 adults. So was the mom at the school teaching or is she the one dead at the house?
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from what I gathered, he was carrying his relative's ID on him instead of his own, leading to the temporary misidentification.

whitelop said:
Then there is the person at his mom's house, and then someone somewhere else (at his house I think?)
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last I heard, they believed it was the mother dead at the house... kinda a$$-backwards to kill her first if he was shooting the kids because he knew how important they were to his mom (which was the supposition last time I was watching).

the whole thing is just so FUBAR.
 
Right after I read this topic I went downstairs, and sure enough, it was all over the news :(
 
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