Ardas and sewa for Con mass shooting victims.

[Singh559]

Please pray for the victims and contact United Sikhs or any Sikh organization and see if they can help the families who have to go through this horrendous and despicable act against humanity.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/15/nyregion/shooting-reported-at-connecticut-elementary-school.html?_r=0

Multiple Fatalities Reported in Shooting at Connecticut Elementary School

Shannon Hicks/The Newtown Bee

State police led children from the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., after a shooting was reported there.

By JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM

Published: December 14, 2012

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Eighteen children were killed on Friday morning in a shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., about 65 miles northeast of New York City, according to a person who had been briefed on the shooting. Another law enforcement official said preliminary reports suggested there could be as many as 20 fatalities.

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Children waited outside Sandy Hook Elementary School after a shooting on Friday in Newtown, Conn.

One state official said that an adult gunman was believed to be dead in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The gunman was in possession of at least two firearms, the official said.

A student at the school told an NBC affiliate in Connecticut: I was in the gym and I heard like seven loud booms, and the gym teachers told us to go in the corner and we huddled. We all heard these booming noises, and we started crying. So the gym teachers told us to go into the office where no one could find us. Then a police officer told us to run outside.

Meredith Artley, the managing editor of CNN.com, has a friend who works at the school. She volunteers with the school as well, Ms. Artley said on CNN.

The woman was in close vicinity to the shooting, which happened in the hallway, according to Ms. Artley. She described it as a Pop, pop, pop,' Ms. Artley added. She said three people went out into the hall and only one person came back, the vice principal, she said, who was shot in the leg or the foot, who came crawling back. She cowered under the table and called 911. She never saw the shooting. There must have been a hundred rounds.

State police say the Newtown police called them around 9:40 a.m., The Associated Press reported. A SWAT team was among the enormous deployment of law enforcement officers who descended on the school. At least one sharpshooter could be seen on the roof of the school.

Danbury Hospital said it was treating three patients from the shooting scene, according to its Facebook page. The hospital, which is not far from the elementary school, said it was on lockdown.

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy arrived at the scene of the shooting on Friday afternoon.

The school, located among wooded hills and suburban tracts in Fairfield County, 12 miles east of Danbury, serves kindergarten through fourth grade. The school has about 700 students.

According to a local newspaper, The Newtown Bee, shortly after 9:30 a.m. on Friday, one child was carried from the school by a police officer, apparently seriously wounded, and other children were escorted from the school by the state police. A photograph published by The Bee showed children outside the school visibly upset.

[Mehtab Singh]

Just reading it, not very far from here. Damn sickening. 20 killed, and 10 were elementary school kids, little ones. Who the hell shoots kids!!!!!!

Ok NY Times says 18 were children?!?!?!?!

[Singh559]

Just reading it, not very far from here. Damn sickening. 20 killed, and 10 were elementary school kids, little ones. Who the hell shoots kids!!!!!!

27 or so killed and 18 or so were kids. This is horrible.

As Americans we need to form coalitions among all communities and address why such things happen and then formulate a solution and lobby congress to implement the solution.

Blanket ban on guns without addressing other real issues is not the answer, in fact, in some cases it makes it worse and more frequent. We need to address how we run our culture, media and way kids are brought up.

[N30S1NGH]

Vahiguroo...!!!

jagat jalanda rakh lai apni kirpa dhar
jit duarai ubhrai titai leho ubhar ||

[Mehtab Singh]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v-s8Kj4jmY

[Mehtab Singh]

The 20-year-old gunman is among the dead. He is the father of a student, reports FOX News.

[singher23]

Now saying upwards of 30 killed. He also killed one of his parents in New Jersey.

The ages of the kids at the school were 5 to 10 years old. Waheguru, this makes me want to vomit

[Mehtab Singh]

there is more horror to the story...the guy 1st killed his dad in new jersey...then came to the school where his mom is a teacher...killed her and all the others...18 kids included...bloody monster

i think im falling sick with a headache just reading and imagining this...

:(

[N30S1NGH]

I just got this very moving, emotional write up by Shinda Singh,..i like to share from facebook-

Anytime innocent people are victims of heinous crimes, a level of a sadness is expected. But, when those innocent happen to be babies in schools, the feelings go from saddening to sickening.

Kids at that age are nothing but pure ignorant love. They're too young to know any type of hate and their excitement for life is often nothing short of infectious. Most everyone's felt this love and it doesn't even need to be from ones own familial ties. Kids that age got love for you regardless even before knowing who you are, or what you're about. Just raw innocent love.

It sickening to think of the evil that can exist in men's hearts. An evil that would make one wanting to wipe that kind of love out. To that end I offer my sincerest condolences to the families and can only hope they find the strength to find peace in this tragedy.

As much as I feel like going the Pac route and raise two middle fingers at the world, truth is this world needs healing, and we could all just use some more love.

Vahiguroo :respect: :respect: :respect: :respect:

[Guest]

This was all vahegurus doing.Its really sad that waheguru made this happen.