Photo gallery: Newtown, from post-card pretty to deeply scarred
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A sign for the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting is seen on a telephone pole in the business area of Newtown, Connecticut, on Dec 15, 2012.-- PHOTO: AFP
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Connecticut Chief Medical Examiner H. Wayne Carver II talks to the media and answers questions the media about the elementary school shooting during a press conference at Treadwell Memorial Park on Dec 15, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut. -- PHOTO: AFP
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Flowers honouring the victims that died a day earlier when a gunman opened fire at an elementary school lay on a bridge near Hawley Pond, Saturday, Dec 15, 2012, in Newtown, Conn. -- PHOTO: AP
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A Newtown, Conn., resident, who declined to give her name, sits at an intersection holding a sign for passing motorists up the road from the Sandy Hook Elementary School, Saturday, Dec 15, 2012, in Newtown, Conn. -- PHOTO: AP
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Candles burn at a makeshift shrine to pay tribute to the victims of an elementary school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, on Dec 15, 2012. -- PHOTO: AFP
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Flowers and signs of sympathy adorn the street leading to the Sandy Hook elementary school on Dec 15, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut. -- PHOTO: AFP
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Robbie Parker, the father of six-year-old Emilie who was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, fights back tears as he speaks during a news conference, Saturday, Dec 15, 2012, in Newtown, Conn. -- PHOTO: AP
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From left, Jean Bradley, Steven Turchetta, 9, Jean's son Matthew Bradley, 9, Ashton Baltes, 10, and his mother Elonda Baltes pay their respects at a memorial for shooting victims near Sandy Hook Elementary School, Saturday, Dec 15, 2012 in Newtown, Conn. -- PHOTO: AP
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Firefighters walk to pay their respects at a makeshift memorial near the school following the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec 15, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut. -- PHOTO: AFP
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Mourners gather for a candlelight vigil outside the Edmond Town Hall, Saturday, Dec 15, 2012, in Newtown, Conn. A gunman walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown Friday and opened fire, killing 26 people, including 20 children. -- PHOTO: AP
A sign for the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting is seen on a telephone pole in the business area of Newtown, Connecticut, on Dec 15, 2012.-- PHOTO: AFP
Connecticut Chief Medical Examiner H. Wayne Carver II talks to the media and answers questions the media about the elementary school shooting during a press conference at Treadwell Memorial Park on Dec 15, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut. -- PHOTO: AFP
Flowers honouring the victims that died a day earlier when a gunman opened fire at an elementary school lay on a bridge near Hawley Pond, Saturday, Dec 15, 2012, in Newtown, Conn. -- PHOTO: AP
A Newtown, Conn., resident, who declined to give her name, sits at an intersection holding a sign for passing motorists up the road from the Sandy Hook Elementary School, Saturday, Dec 15, 2012, in Newtown, Conn. -- PHOTO: AP
Candles burn at a makeshift shrine to pay tribute to the victims of an elementary school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, on Dec 15, 2012. -- PHOTO: AFP
Flowers and signs of sympathy adorn the street leading to the Sandy Hook elementary school on Dec 15, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut. -- PHOTO: AFP
Robbie Parker, the father of six-year-old Emilie who was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, fights back tears as he speaks during a news conference, Saturday, Dec 15, 2012, in Newtown, Conn. -- PHOTO: AP
From left, Jean Bradley, Steven Turchetta, 9, Jean's son Matthew Bradley, 9, Ashton Baltes, 10, and his mother Elonda Baltes pay their respects at a memorial for shooting victims near Sandy Hook Elementary School, Saturday, Dec 15, 2012 in Newtown, Conn. -- PHOTO: AP
Firefighters walk to pay their respects at a makeshift memorial near the school following the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec 15, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut. -- PHOTO: AFP
Mourners gather for a candlelight vigil outside the Edmond Town Hall, Saturday, Dec 15, 2012, in Newtown, Conn. A gunman walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown Friday and opened fire, killing 26 people, including 20 children. -- PHOTO: AP
The gunman in the Connecticut shooting blasted his way into the elementary school and then sprayed the children with bullets, hitting some of them as many as 11 times, as he fired a semi-automatic rifle loaded with ammunition designed for maximum damage.
