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Connecticut Shooting Survivors To Attend Another School

Danny Lee |
December 16, 2012 | 2:00 p.m. PST

Executive Producer

Students who survived Friday's shooting will not have to return to Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 26 people and the gunman died. (Google Maps)
Students who survived Friday's shooting will not have to return to Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 26 people and the gunman died. (Google Maps)
The students who survived Friday's shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School will attend classes in a neighboring Connecticut town and not have to return to the scene of the massacre when school reopens this week, Reuters reported.

Newtown School Superintendent Janet Robinson said the children would attend class in an unused school about seven miles to the south in Monroe. It is unclear when the 436 students who survived the Sandy Hook shooting will return to class. 

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"This facility, which is currently not being used, is in excellent condition and will accommodate all of the Sandy Hill School students and staff," Robinson said. "It is located just across the border from Newtown and should be ready for occupancy in just a few days."

Newtown school officials said all seven of the town's public schools, in addition to private schools, will be closed on Monday. More than 5,100 students attend schools in the district.

Meanwhile, authorities investigating the shooting uncovered evidence suggesting that gunman Adam Lanza may have planned an even deadlier massacre before taking his own life with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to the Associated Press. Lanza, 20, shot his mother four times in the head before heading to the elementary school and gunning down 26 victims. 

SEE ALSO: Who Was Adam Lanza?

Gov. Dannel Malloy said Lanza committed suicide when he heard police coming, and the bloodshed could have been much worse. Police found multiple 30-round magazines and hundreds of bullets at Sandy Point.

"There was a lot of ammo, a lot of clips," State Police Lt. Paul Vance said. "Certainly a lot of lives were potentially saved."

Lanza had two handguns -- a Glock 10 mm and a Sig Sauer 9 mm -- and a Bushmaster rifle. All the victims at the school were shot by the rifle, Chief Medical Examiner Dr. H. Wayne Carver said. 

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President Barack Obama is scheduled to travel to Newtown Sunday evening for memorial services, ABC News reported. Obama will meet privately with some of the victims' families as well as first responders.

The president has witnessed five mass shootings since he came into office in 2009. Although Obama has not been aggressive in pursuing stricter gun control, he said it was time for "meaningful action" to prevent further tragedies.

The president was visibly emotional when he addressed the nation on Friday after the shooting.

“They had their entire lives ahead of them — birthdays, graduations, weddings, kids of their own,” Obama said.

 

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