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Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Schools Undergo Safety Re-Evaluation After Connecticut School Shooting

Verona, Cedar Grove districts review procedures following 26 deaths at Sandy Hook Elementary School last Friday.

The Verona and Cedar Grove School Districts are re-examining their safety guidelines following the Friday, Dec. 14 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. School officials have been in close contact with local police to ensure the safety of all Verona and Cedar Grove students. Verona Following the tragedy, Verona Superintendent Steven Forte held a conference phone call with Verona Police Chief Douglas Huber. “We decided it would be important to make some adjustments in the short term and work to indentify areas that could be improved in the long term,” said Forte. For the short term, Verona schools will: In the long term, Verona Police and the Verona School District will complete an audit of school security procedures and drills, …

Friday, December 14, 2012

'It Wasn't Me' Hoboken Man Named as Shooter Writes

A Connecticut town once voted the safest place to live in America experiences horrific violence in one of its elementary schools.

The man identified in media reports Friday as the shooter in the second deadliest school shooting in American history has told friends that he thinks his developmentally disabled brother may have committed the crime, Patch has learned. A close friend of Ryan Lanza who requested to not be identified told Patch that he spoke to Lanza as he was making his way home from work to Hoboken. Lanza also took to his Facebook page to rail against CNN naming him as the suspect in the shooting in Newtown, Conn.  “I’m on the bus home now, it wasn’t me,” Lanza wrote. Lanza’s mother, Nancy, a school teacher, is believed to be among the dead. More than 25 people, including 18 students, died in the mass shooting. The shooter was Adam Lanza, 20, the younger …

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Police Hope to ID Victims, Shooter in Newtown Killings Saturday (in Newtown Patch) and Sandy Hook School (in Newtown Patch)

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John Santaella

7:10 pm on Sunday, December 16, 2012

If that was an automatic weapon it would have gone through that ammunition in less than a minute.   more ›

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