Massacre in Connecticut: 8 disturbing eyewitness accounts [Updated]

"We all heard these booming noises, and we started crying"

Parents pick up their children outside Sandy Hook Elementary after a deadly school shooting in Newtown, Conn.
(Image credit: REUTERS/Michelle McLoughlin)

The Associated Press reports that 27 people, including 18 children, were killed on Friday morning in a school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut. Much remains unknown about the mass shooting, which is already being described as one of the worst in American history. But a picture of terror and tragedy is slowly emerging from news reports on the ground. Here, some details of the shooting as described by witnesses:

The New York Times:

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Ryu Spaeth

Ryu Spaeth is deputy editor at TheWeek.com. Follow him on Twitter.