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School Gunman Targeted Classroom Where His Mother Was Teaching

Also took his own life

Reason Staff | 12.14.2012 3:26 PM

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A gunman killed 26 people, 18 of them small children, in a shooting on Friday morning at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., about 65 miles northeast of New York City, a law enforcement official said.

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