2nd – Nancy Lane/Boston Herald – “A Town in Mourning”
In the second-deadliest school shooting in United States history, Adam Lanza fatally shot twenty children and six adult staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in the village of Sandy Hook in Newtown, Connecticut before killing himself. Police departments across the state of Connecticut provided motorcycle escorts for funerals including here as the hearse leave the church after funeral services for Victoria Soto,the 27-year-old teacher who was one of the 26 victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre, at Lordship Community Church in Stratford, CT.
Flowers are carried out after funeral services for 6 year old Charlotte Bacon at Christ The King Lutheran Church in Newtown, CT
People visit an ever growing memorial in the village of Sandy Hook, CT.
Pall bearers at the funeral services for 6 year old Charlotte Bacon, who was killed in the school shooting, embrace after carrying the casket out of Christ The King Lutheran Church in Newtown, CT.
A man touches the head of a young boy sitting on the steps of Lordship Community Church before the funeral of Victoria Soto. Funeral services for Victoria Soto,the 27-year-old teacher was one of the 26 victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre, at Lordship Community Church in Stratford, CT.
The casket is carried out of the church after funeral services for Victoria Soto,the 27-year-old teacher was one of the 26 victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre, at Lordship Community Church in Stratford, CT.
A women comforts a young girl as mounted police stand outside the wake for 6 year old Jesse Lewis, one of the 20 first graders shot and killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School, at Honan Funeral Home in Newtown, CT.
Mourners embrace after the funeral service for Lauren Rousseau,a substitute teacher killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School, at First Congregation Church in Dasnbury, CT.
A Connecticut State Police officer and a firefighter from Seymour, CT stand outside the wake for 6 year old Jesse Lewis, one of the children killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School, at Honan Funeral Home in Newtown, CT.
A man is overcome with emotion in his car after attending the wake for 6 year old Jesse Lewis, one of the children killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School, as a line of people wait to attend at Honan Funeral Home in Newtown, CT
Candles form the shape of a heart at the ever growing memorial in the village of Sandy Hook, CT.
