Newtown, CT – The victims in the Connecticut school shooting all were shot more than once, the state medical examiner said on Saturday.
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The victims died of gunshot wounds and have been classified as homicides, said H. Wayne Carver, Connecticut’s chief medical examiner. Twenty-eight people died in the massacre, including 20 students and six adults and the school, a woman at a nearby site and the gunman himself.
The gunman used a rifle as his primary weapon, Carver said.
Each of the bodies Carver examined were shot three to 11 times, and all the victims were shot multiple times, he said. He said he did seven of the autopsies.
He said the children he examined were wearing “cute kid stuff.”
The gunman killed himself in the shooting on Friday at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, authorities said.
Names and ages of the 26 people gunned down at a Connecticut elementary school Friday in the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history:
Charlotte Bacon, 6
Daniel Barden, 7
Rachel Davino, 29
Olivia Engel, 6
Josephine Gay, 7
Ana Marquez-Greene, 6
Dylan Hockley, 6
Dawn Hochsprung, 47
Madeleine Hsu, 6
Catherine Hubbard, 6
Chase Kowalski, 7
Jesse Lewis, 6
James Mattioli, 6
Grace McDonnell, 7
Anne Marie Murphy, 52
Emilie Parker, 6
Jack Pinto, 6
Noah Pozner, 6
Caroline Previdi, 6
Jessica Rekos, 6
Avielle Richman, 6
Lauren Rousseau, 30
Mary Sherlach, 56
Victoria Soto,27
Benjamin Wheeler, 6
Allison Wyatt, 6
Source: Connecticut State Police
We hear that Noah Pozner is Jewish and Chesed Shel Emes advocated and enabled for a prevention of an autopsy. Yehi Zichro Boruch. May his family know that Klal Yisroel is mourning along with them. May they have Nechama and see nachas and be strengthened. May all families affected by this awful tragedy be comforted as we feel their pain
Not to minimize the pain & loss suffered by all, but there are a few of our brothers & sisters on that list. Baruch Dayan Emes.
Of the above names, there are 5 that could be m’sheluni.