Newtown mourns shooting victims
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E-mail CNTV, December 16, 2012
We head now to the United States, where the nation is trying to come to grips with Friday's mass school shooting in Connecticut. 28 people, including 20 children and the gunman himself, are dead, after the attack at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. Residents in the close-knit community are now coming together to grieve.
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Residents in the close-knit community are coming together to grieve. |
Grief, confusion and disbelief…
The loss of 26 of their own, including 20 children, at the Sandy Hook Elementary School Friday, shocked residents in this tiny community.
Local resident in Newtown: "I run the basketball league here in town… I just don't want to hear their names."
"Parents sending their kids on a bus to school for an education and they just never come home. That should never happen."
At St. Rose Church in Newtown, several hundred people turned up to pay respects and offer comfort and prayers to the families whose lives are changed forever.
The hope is trying to make sense of Friday's violence in what has always been a peaceful, quiet community.
Local resident in Newtown: "It's unfortunate that these things happen anywhere but to think it happened right here in quiet Newtown is unimaginable."
"There are stupid people but I never thought anybody would ever shoot up an elementary school that I went to."
This is a town of 27,000 people, small enough for nearly everyone to know everyone else, where the pain is shared by all.
Local resident in Newtown: "My friend's daughter was a kindergarten teacher here at St. Rose and knew one of the teachers killed was protecting her students."
Many here believe that the true heroes in this tragedy are the teachers.
Local resident in Newtown: "I don't know those teachers but they had those children and their safety as their first interest."
Across the US, other Americans also gathered at places of worship to join those here today in their prayers.
Just a stone's throw away from the church, I'm here at Treadwell Memorial Park, where you can see a football field behind me, where families and children often come to play. But now, news crews and satellite trucks occupy the space. The interest is a reflection of the gravity what just happened here, one of the worst school massacres in American history.
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